As I was finishing off my previous post on the recent health care poll, I stumbled on another story on Yahoo! News relating to health insurance and problems with it. Here’s a link to the article.
This is despicable. The woman is in a vegetative state, her husband has to quit his job to care for her, and guess what.. her health insurance (Blue Cross) doesn’t want to pay. I worked both as a nurse assistant in the past, and yes I’ve been attacked too. I feel so sorry for her and her family. Not only does she get injured while doing her job taking care of others, but now her family has no way to pay for her care. To me it doesn’t matter whether her stroke was related to her workplace injuries.. she should not be denied care, she should get both health insurance and work compensation benefits.
Her attorney is holding a press conference later today, where he will call on the state board to expedite their decision. I hope and pray that the insurance provider will be forced to pay for her medical needs. I also hope and pray that this doesn’t happen to anyone else again.. although we know that’s a lost dream. Maybe a government option would prevent things like this from happening.
