19-year-old Caitlin Jackson recently discovered that she has a degenerative brain disorder that will rob her of her mobility, then her memory, then her life. In the meantime, it just causes excruciating pain.
Caitlin’s family had private health insurance for her (and paid for it religiously) right up until insurance company was asked to pay $113,000 for a surgery that could cure her. The insurance company (Aetna) said no.
No -- as in, suffer and die.
The entire reason this happened to Caitlin instead of you or your daughter is luck.
That’s all there is to it. Luck. Otherwise, it’s you. Getting sick. Getting that horrible diagnosis. Getting refused by your insurance company. Getting sentenced to suffer and die.
Isn’t this the reason we pay for insurance? To get covered in catastrophic, horribly expensive, life-or-death situations? What the hell is the point if they don’t cover you in cases like this?
Yes, I trust government-run insurance coverage more than private insurance companies. You’re damn right I do.
- Calvin Rye
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