Reply #40: I told this to my mum [View All]

[FunkyLeprechaun]

and she told me another ridiculous health insurance story. A friend of ours divorced and lost her health insurance as a result (her ex-husband's job provided the insurance). She went on BC/BS just fine except for the fact that she has skin cancer (BC/BS won't cover it because they consider it a preexisting condition). She was just at her dermatologist's appointment and they saw a spot that looked like melanoma and wanted to do a biopsy. She told them she couldn't afford the biopsy and her insurance won't cover it.

I sincerely hope health care reform comes quickly for you Americans. I lost my American health insurance three months before I moved to the UK because my dad's family plan refused to cover me because they thought I was too old to be on it (even though I was a student and still living at home).

The greedy health insurance companies have to be stopped.