Blind Amputee Has to Fight AIG for New Plastic Leg, Wheelchair

[brentspeak]

Source: ABC News

By AVNI PATEL and BRIAN ROSS
April 16, 2009

An Oklahoma man who lost an eye and a leg in Iraq says the giant insurance company AIG refused to provide him a new plastic leg and fought to keep from paying for a wheelchair or glasses for the eye in which he has 30 percent vision.
AIG has made everything a battle after injury, he says.

"They bought the cheapest thing that they could get away with," said 51-year old John Woodson, a truck driver for the KBR contracting firm who lost his leg when his truck hit a roadside bomb in Iraq.

"Everything's been a struggle, a constant fight," said Woodson, injured in Oct. 2004. "It's been hell since."

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Woodson says he was told by an AIG representative in the hospital that he would be fully covered by AIG, but that when he returned home, he quickly discovered AIG was prepared to challenge almost all of his medical needs.

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I'm surprised that ABC News is covering this. It goes without mentioning, though, that John Stossel wasn't the reporter.

[sarcasmo]

1. aig a bunch of GREEDY PIGS, give us back our money and file Bankruptcy you BASTARDS!

[Bette Noir]

2. Why isn't the Veterans' Administration taking care of this?

Even if he had coinsurance with AIG, surely the VA is ultimately responsible.

[Lugnut]

3. He wasn't a soldier.

He was an employee of KBR.

[groundloop]

5. Woodson is covered by AIG

under a government-mandated program that provides medical and disability benefits for employees working for U.S. contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Cheap ass crooked insurance companies. We're currently fighing United Healthcare to cover surgery for my wife. What really sucks is that the insurance company is the judge of each stage of the appeal process (gee, I wonder how that's going to turn out).

PLEASE President Obama, give us single payer health care !!!!!!

[sasquatch]

4. Guillotine has a nice ring to it, don't you think

[aquart]

6. But public hanging is so American.

[antimatter98]

7. And the Obama White House hands hundreds of billions to AIG. Fair, right? n/t

[w4rma]

8. I'm *sick* and *tired* of the Rubinites under Obama handing over the bank to these greedheads. (nt)

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Obama wants to "privatize" the VA. But this what would happen to vets, too

under a program that made them use their own private insurance for service related needs.

[The Stranger]

10. Can John Boner stop protecting White Supremacists and help out this guy, a real soldier?