I have blogged here before on the Medical catastrophe in this country. How medical care is so expensive. And how the remedy is to get private insurance and the government insurance programs out of the market, and to let the free competitive market take hold to see rates drop.
Well this is just another case of what the current system is with the strangle hold private insurance has on this nation (and this is just the tip of the iceburg of what it would be like with Socialized Universal Healthcare like Obama-bin-Socialist and Hitlery are wanting).
There is a 19 year old woman in Florida that was set to go under the knife for brain surgery to help relieve symptoms of Chiari malformation, a brain condition that causes excruciating headaches and fainting spells and can, without treatment, eventually lead to the destruction of motor skills and memory. This condition can also be fatal.
Well just minutes before the surgery was set to take place, her insurance company, AETNA, cancelled her insurance policy. This company felt it was more important to save the potential cost of the procedure than it was to help this young woman live a better life.
It is cases like this that prove how much we need to change the system. If this woman had a Medical Savings account that she put money in, she could pay for it herself (and if insurance wasn't involved, the $119,000 surgery would probably only cost $30,000, just because hospitals would compete for business).
Well thankfully the people at Fox News' morning show picked up the story and acted on it. In the end the governor of Florida put people on this issue and AETNA was forced to pickup coverage on this young woman.
Thank G-d there are people who will still fight for others. We all need to learn from these people.
Viva Liberty!
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