Cut-Off Cancer Patient to Get $9M

By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press Writer, Medicine & Health / Cancer

(AP) -- A woman who had her medical coverage canceled as she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer has been awarded more than $9 million in a case against one of California's largest health insurers.

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Posted by kcasey415 02/24/08 21:20

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Health Net should be put out of business. Don't give the liberals more reason to want national health care coverage. Buy insurance from a reputable company, do your homework. The cheapest is not usually the best, except in this case when you are awarded 9M.

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Posted by Argiod 02/25/08 05:32

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Goes to show that you can only have good health if you can pay for it. The Hippocratic oath has been replaced with the hypocrites oath: "I shall heal no person who cannot cross my palm with silver and gold." Physicians are no longer healers; they're money making machines with no regard for the health and suffering of thier patients. Now, all that matters is wether you can afford health care. After all; baby needs new shoes, and daddy needs to pay his contry club membership so he can keep on golfing on his days off.
Granted, doctors do a lot of good in their communities. It is simply a shame on the profession when they can simply stop treating a patient because of an inability to pay. It is too much like a form of extortion.

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