Worth the read, some choice quotes:
“I will never forget standing outside the chemo treatment room knowing that the medication needed to save my life was only a few feet away, but that because I had private insurance it wasn’t available to me,” Linda wrote. “I read a comment from someone saying that they didn’t want a faceless government bureaucrat deciding if they would or would not get treatment. Well, a faceless bureaucrat from my private insurance made the decision that I wouldn’t get treatment and that I wasn’t worth saving.”
Likewise, Americans take 10 percent fewer drugs than citizens in other countries — but pay 118 percent more per pill that they do take, McKinsey said.
Remind me again why people don’t want to change American health care?
How sad! We have had such difficulties with insurance companies as many others in America have. We spent $30,000 in legal fees to get disability for a family member who had MS. IT’s a disgrace! Insurance companies should have bonded together years ago and developed a plan to cover the uninsured and keep costs down. But they didn’t. They were too greedy.