[lit-ideas] Re: Health insurance -- Judy, Erin?
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:35:16 +0000 (GMT)
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.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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