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[rm]

Getting diagnosed with celiac disease causes girl's health insurance to be cancelled:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-thu-problem-briana-rice-sep17,0,771811.column

via dsmoen

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[luke-jaywalker.livejournal.com]

Doesn't this equate to "you've just had a collision; as a result, your car insurance is cancelled?"

Or "now that your house is on fire, your homeowners' fire insurance is cancelled"?

[demotu.livejournal.com]

That's what I don't get. What is health insurance FOR, if not when you get sick? Was there some sort of loophole in that one that said "this only covers accidents, not chronic illnesses?"

[rm.livejournal.com]

You know, back in the emergence of AIDS, anyone who was an activist learned something fast -- never, ever let a doctor put a diagnosis on your paperwork if you can help it, because this shit has been going on for decades.

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Right. Which is why it's far better to put the power of health care in the hands of people you elect*, cause then you can boot them on their asses if they pull shit like this.

*That is, if it even went as far as anyone but a doctor deciding what's medically necessary, which except in the case of thin lines between elective and necessary and orphan drugs, it doesn't. The gov't has better things to do (well, maybe) than tell doctors how to do their jobs.