Health care cut when he finally needed it

by Dean Powers—New Mexico

I met a guy who worked ten years for a company, a brake supply and repair chain. For ten years he had health coverage.

When he developed cancer and needed his health care more than ever, but couldn’t work the 60 hour work-weeks that his company demanded of him, they let him go…him and all of his benefits; a simple write-off.

This man had a type of cancer that was treatable with interferon, an agent used occasionally in therapy. But because he had lost his insurance, his wife had to go to one of two interferon manufacturers in the country and plead for free treatment.

After filing multiple forms, the company provided the free treatment, but since the hospitals refused service, his wife had to administer the shots.

It’s a sad day, when our citizens need to plead with the aristocrats for their lives.

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