Company Threatened to Annul Insurance as Woman Faced Blinding Eye Disease [View All]

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Source: ABC News

Shannon Dagher, a 22-year-old college student, said she was at the eye doctor for a checkup last November, one month after her new insurance policy kicked in, when she received terrible news.

"I was diagnosed with a very rare disorder, called pseudotumor cerebri. It basically looks and acts like a brain tumor," Dagher said.

Dagher's doctors said she needed surgery or she may go blind.

"I'm petrified of the thought of going blind," Dagher said. "I've never been sick before in my life and now in the past six months I've started to lose my peripheral vision and I'll never get that back."

But instead of authorizing the surgery, her insurer, Blue Cross of California, stopped processing her bills.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3289308&page=1

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Bastards. Can't wait to see Sicko - I hope a ton of people go to see it.