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The Senate\'s Christmas gift for families like the Mains: Pre-existing conditions
The Yes from Senator Ben Nelson is the crucial 60th vote in favor of the health reform bill. That's a major milestone toward the bill's passage.On this morning's Meet the Press TV show, Sen. Nelson said that the early benefits of the bill, if it pas...
Outside the chemo treatment room: Insurance denials
From Nicholas Kristof's column:I regularly receive heartbreaking emails from readers simultaneously combating the predation of disease and insurers. One correspondent, Linda, told me how she had been diagnosed earlier this year with abdominal and ...
Managing the risk: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas' rescission of a breast cancer patient's coverage
Robin Beaton worked as a nurse for 30 years, and had retired by age 59. She had insurance coverage in an individual policy through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas. Though she had had acne, and a rapid heartbeat, she didn't mention them on her insur...
Just before his stem cell transplant: Insurers' recission of coverage
Peggy Raddatz, an Illinois resident, testified before a subcommiteee of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday that Fortis Insurance Company attempted to drop her brother Otto from coverage just before he was to receive a stem cell transplant to...
While she lay in bed: Insurance denials for pre-existing conditions
"My mother died very suddenly and very young," her adult son told AARP Bulletin last fall. Ann Dunham died in 1995 at age 52 after working as a consultant for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation and Women's World Bankin...
They declined to pay for chemotherapy: Overturning an insurer's denial
David Foglesong, a history professor from Montgomery Township, N.J., began searching medical databases soon after Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey declined to pay for a targeted chemotherapy treatment for his wife, RoseMary. During one li...
