Sounds completely made-up to me. Never heard of an insurance company doing this before.

As an aside, her forst priority should have been working on her marriage. Not the kids in college, not working for a non-profit, but her marriage. She should never have stretched herself so thin when her marriage was suffering (cause?).

Of course, what type of D-bag divorces his wife after she just beat cancer? Maybe it wasn't his idea, I guess.

No, her first priority was staying alive for her children.  She shouldn't have had to predicate every single life decision from employment to divorce on how it would affect her insurance status.  If we had single-payer government-run health insurance in this country, she wouldn't have had to.

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Of course, what type of D-bag divorces his wife after she just beat cancer?

Well, there's Newt Gingrich...

(added) Oh, and it wasn't cancer, but John S. McCain also comes to mind.

Wonderful blog rf~ thanks for the link.

wow.

No, her first priority BEFORE her diagnosis should have been her marriage. She was obviously to busy to work on it. Throwing a healthcare challenge into the mix just makes things worse.

Well, there's Newt Gingrich...

You've lied about that one so much, I doubt you even remember the truth.

And since it is from the Daily KOS, the whole thing is probably a lie or mis-representation.

"Sounds completely made-up to me. Never heard of an insurance company doing this before."

Welcome to the real world.  Not unusual at all.

I'm sure you're not all that familiar with that site, but the members will absolutely roast people that make things up or lie. It certainly wouldn't get to recommended status if it were B.S.

Random, I read that earlier today. Thanks for sharing it. There are way too many stories of peoples lives being unnecessarily ruined because of our system of health "care"

Wonder why "she" needed to work on "her" marriage~ in marriage it is two people ,right? 

This happens all the time with insurance~ ask any person with HIV/AIDS. Or any other major medical health issue. An honest one at least.

I can attest to part of this story.  While working for a local insurance company, we got a renewel for one of our clients that was out of this world.  So we decided to shop around.  Everything was looking good to move them to a cheaper provider, until we got to the loss history.   One of thier employees had to have a double lung transplant.   This is a minium 250k claim.  No other company would touch them while he was still employed.  So now this company is forced to either, drop coverage for all of thier employees, pick up the extra tab, or pass it along to all thier employees.  Which one do you think they did?  The passed it on to all of thier employees. 

Just proof that the ever expanding costs of healthcare will eventually bankrupt us all.  Do you know the reason why my wife and I have yet to have children?  Becuase I can't afford to insure them.  Just to add them to my work sponsored plan will cost over 250 dollars a month. 

Assuming this story is true, it is pretty sad that this happens in our country.  Wow, capitalism at it's best.  At least the shareholders got thier dividend! 

Welcome to the real world.  Not unusual at all.

There are stories I firmly believe are true of people being denied insurance coverage for failure to disclose acne treatments as teenagers as "pre-existing conditions."  These are people who've faithfully paid their premiums, too.

If it were not for government-run single-payer insurance, my late wife would've died back around 2000 when the kidney failure began.  She was already "uninsurable" at that point.

witbee----you and your family must truly be blessed if you do not personally know of anyone that has experienced a similar insurance fiasco.  My sister's 8 year old niece was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  After two surgeries and chemotherapy had not "cured" her her dad was told that he would be losing his job because his employer could not afford the threatened increase in health insurance costs to the small business.  I did not believe my sister when she first repeated this saga to me.  I figured she must be wrong.  How could an employer get away with this? The family chose to go the COBRA route and I was told they were expected to pay about $1900 a month for the privilege. All while the dad is out of work and searching for a new job that will allow him to miss work while he accompanies his daughter to her various treatments. Shelby died in 2004 her mom has been battling breast cancer since then. The dad is close to 60 and works hard to pay for all their expenses.   Retirement savings and college savings were used up paying for health care.  I suppose your advice to this family is that they should have never had children.  Hardworking taxpaying people in this country are screwed over by their health insurance companies all of the time. You are living in a dream world if you believe otherwise. 

random,

I didn't read all of it,but I've witnessed certain situations in that piece. Health insurance companies and some private hospitals are evil. They are in it for the profit. They don't care anything about you. Kaiser, Blue Cross, and others are all the same.

A family friend had to be stabilized for her bipolar disorder.  Her psychiatrist told me and some of her family members to take her to Catholic Healthcare West's behavioral center (I can't remember the exact name) to get her stabilized.  That local Catholic health care center admitted that she needed treatment, but wouldn't admit her because she didn't have insurance. They said the same thing to another family, who had somehow managed to get their family member to that place after he had jumped out of their car. The Catholic facility told us to take her to KMC.  We did and saw that other guy there too. He was so bad that his family had to have the police take him to KMC.  KMC has definately taken some hits, but at least they have stepped up to the plate. That Catholic hospital, especially the woman who screened the clients, havve no shame. There are social workers that help clients and hospitals organize payment plans.  Her psychiatrist was extremely upset that she wasn't admitted into the hospital that he told us to take her to.  Someday that Catholic treatment center is going to turn someone away, and something will happen and I hope they get sued $$$$$$$$$$$$

In Michael Moore's movie, Sicko, a health care company refused to pay for a woman's surgery because she didn't put that she was treated for a yeast infection under her previous health plan.  The surgery that she received was not related in anyway to her yeast infection.

The pharmaceutical companies, health insurers, and some private hospitals operate solely on greed.

btowntv,

I wouldn't let health care coverage hold you back from having kids.  There are a lot of public reduced health care coverage for children. I'm guessing for pr health insurance companies are nicer to kids.  The US's health care system will allows be run for profit, because corporate donors own politicians (Democrats and Republicans).