Even Fox News reported this one. Surprisingly they even reported the fact that their previous insurer raised their rates 40% for the audacity of having a baby. Then the new insurer denied the baby health coverage.
I find it amazing that they can report a story like this, yet continue to defend a system that treats Americans this way. Would the insurer have reversed their decision had the dad not been a local news anchor? Not likely. You can almost hear the "oh shit!" when they realized who they had screwed. They're expected to not cover their child. This kind of insanity only occurs in this country, and the right wing continues to call this the best health care system in the world despite mountains of facts to the contrary, and endless stories just like this one. Nearly everybody has a health insurance horror story. I have more than one.
I just heard today about a friend of my wife's, who had lost their insurance because the father had become unemployed (a fairly common occurrence these days), and now their baby has a serious condition. They'll never recover from this. You have to wonder how they're going to send children to college when they'll most likely be paying for saving their child's life for the rest of their lives.
That's all it takes to destroy a family here. Lose a job, get sick.
The right-wing takeaway: If your child is careless enough to develop a serious condition, let 'em die. Serves them right for being so thoughtless.
My takeaway: This is like living in a George Orwell novel. If our elected leaders can't take this seriously and put a stop to it, vote them out.
I'm making a list of politicians who A) support real reform, B) oppose any reform, and C) are pretending to care about reform but really trying to fuck it up as badly as they can (i.e. Max Baucus). I will post this if reform fails. I may post it anyway. I'm going to use it as my voting guide in the next election. I hope you do too.
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