Finish Reform Right Hour 15: Sharon Lantz
Posted on January 5th, 2010 by Jason Rosenbaum in Insurance Nightmares
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Sharon Lantz was one of seven families who came to Washington, DC to confront the insurance industry for denying their care. They came from around the country and appeared at the same hotel as the health insurance lobby's annual State Issues conference in downtown D.C. to recount the mistreatment they and their loved ones have endured at the hands of the private health insurance industry.
Sharon is a realtor from Delaware who has a UnitedHealthcare plan that forces her to pay for her cancer care "out of pocket," and she has turned to getting her chemotherapy medication from India in order to afford it. Sharon cannot afford breast reconstruction either.
Watch Sharon and others confront the insurance industry:
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From the right: Bravo for them to take the fight to those in the private health insurance industry who won't fulfill their side of the bargain.
I work as a teacher and have great insurance, but I am completely for an overhaul within the health care system.
Last March, my son (2 1/2) had an ear infection and promptly received antibiotics. His babysitter's daughter, however (also a toddler), did not receive those antibiotics. She had similar symptoms.
I was very upset by the differential treatment and wrote lyrics about the incident. Paramount put a demo to it. It is a moving song about how the health care system currently kills our future (those children denied treatment).
The link to a page where you can hear it is http://www.noisehead.com/mypage/edwardszone
~Brenda
Thanks for taking my question this afternoon.
However I'm sure it was not clearly understood.
The House version has language to subject the insurers to existing Anti-Trust statutes. The Senate version does not.
This is a stand alone issue.
After 8 long years we hv a Justice Dept willing to take on big battles. The insurers must be accountable for their Anti-Trust violations. But the House language is necessary to give Justice the legal basis to act.