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My friend Wendy is DEAD: she couldn't buy broccoli [View all]
My friend Wendy is DEAD: she couldn't buy broccoli
by freelancewoman
My friend Wendy ran through what her insurance company would pay for chemo, then ran through her own life savings, and another $10,000 from her mother.
However, it was ovarian cancer, which returns usually within three years -- Wendy got 5 years, but was considered uninsurable because of that "pre-existing condition."
After 15 years with the same firm, it folded, and the only work Wendy could get didn't offer group health insurance.
Because of circumstances too long to go through here, Wendy fell between the cracks: couldn't get chemo through an insurance company, wasn't poverty-stricken enough for government care.
But the doctors agreed: If she'd gotten the chemo in time, Wendy probably would have lived.
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Here's yet another irony: Wendy had been a vegetarian since she was 16 -- she could, and did, buy broccoli by the truckload.
No matter a Supreme Court Judge's specious argument: what Wendy couldn't buy was healthcare in this country.
Fuck you, Scalia. Big time.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/31/1079555/--My-friend-Wendy-is-DEAD-she-couldn-t-buy-broccoli-
by freelancewoman
My friend Wendy ran through what her insurance company would pay for chemo, then ran through her own life savings, and another $10,000 from her mother.
However, it was ovarian cancer, which returns usually within three years -- Wendy got 5 years, but was considered uninsurable because of that "pre-existing condition."
After 15 years with the same firm, it folded, and the only work Wendy could get didn't offer group health insurance.
Because of circumstances too long to go through here, Wendy fell between the cracks: couldn't get chemo through an insurance company, wasn't poverty-stricken enough for government care.
But the doctors agreed: If she'd gotten the chemo in time, Wendy probably would have lived.
<...>
Here's yet another irony: Wendy had been a vegetarian since she was 16 -- she could, and did, buy broccoli by the truckload.
No matter a Supreme Court Judge's specious argument: what Wendy couldn't buy was healthcare in this country.
Fuck you, Scalia. Big time.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/31/1079555/--My-friend-Wendy-is-DEAD-she-couldn-t-buy-broccoli-
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