Insurance Company Drops Cancer Patient And Veteran Because He Accidentally Underpaid By Two Cents

[babylonsister]

Insurance Company Drops Cancer Patient And Veteran Because He Accidentally Underpaid By Two Cents


One of the worst abuses of the private health insurance industry is the practice of denying claims to pay for necessary care or revoking the coverage of policyholders for frivolous reasons. A Vietnam veteran from Thornton, Colorado, is the latest victim of this practice.

Vietnam vet Ronald Flanagan has been battling cancer for more than two years. Two weeks ago, Flanagan was getting prepped for a bone biopsy at the local Exempla Rock Creek Medical Center. But at the last minute, his wife called the hospital and told them to stop the procedure because she had just received notice that they no longer have insurance. The reason why? The couple had accidentally underpaid their insurer by two pennies and it decided to drop them from their plan:

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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/26/insurance-company-veteran-cents/

[Submariner]

1. Hannity always mentions American Exceptionalism

I know what that is now when I read stories like this. This must be part of the republicans Support our Veterans line of bullshit.

Do Americans run these insurance companies? Doesn't feel like it.

[Doctor_J]

2. Can't the DoJ revoke their corporate charter, like today?

Why don't their so-called insurees burn the place down?