[lit-ideas] Re: Health insurance -- Judy, Erin?
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:04:14 -0500
I don't know anything about health care here, really, except for the fact that
it's free and that on more than one occasion I've waited a really long time in
the emergency room. I also know that prescriptions aren't free, but they are
for me because my school policy covers it, along with 80% of my dental bill. I
tend to just cross my fingers and hope I don't get sick. But the article you
posted strikes me as disturbing.
Erin
TO
Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> I'm starting to wonder if we count as a third world country.
>
> Julie Krueger
>
> ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Health insurance
>
> -- Judy, Erin? Date: 2/11/06 3:35:33 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
> _judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To:
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> _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on:
> The Tracy Pierce case (omitting waiting list delays
> here, which are in England, now, brief)
>
> every treatment his doctors
> > sought for him was denied
> > by his insurance provider. First-Health Coventry
> > deemed the treatments were
> > either not a medical necessity or experimental.
>
> Some cancer treatments are not licensed for use under
> the NHS. They may nonetheless be provided under the
> NHS if the patients's local health trust provides them
> to all patients -- regardless of the license -- or
> agrees to do it in a specific case.
>
> If he had private insurance what was covered and for
> how long would depend on his policy and the insurance
> company.
>
> I know of no case of the NHS refusing all treatments.
>
> > Even as he was dying, for more than a week, his
> > insurance company denied him
> > oral morphine, which had been prescribed to reduce
> > his pain.
>
> The NHS would provide that here
>
>
> *****
> > Doctors wrote to Nathan's insurance company, urging
> > it to send him to the
> > nation's foremost research hospital.
>
> On the NHS, this would depend on whether the local
> health board was prepared to fund the treatment at
> that hospital; under private insurance, ditto.
>
>
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> Judy Evans, Cardiff
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Erin
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