This is monstrous. No wonder the President is pushing so hard for his health care reform.
Natoma Canfield, the Medina, Ohio cleaning woman and cancer survivor who could no longer afford to pay for her skyrocketing insurance premiums — and whose letter to the president explaining her predicament President Obama read to insurance executives last week — has died after being rejected by a number of hospitals and physicians because of her lack of health insurance. Canfield suffered an apparent relapse of cancer but was unable to obtain the test that would have allowed for competent medical treatment.
“I went from feeling A-OK to really bad,” Canfield told family members from the filthy ditch where she was left to die by the medical insurance industry and obstructionist Republicans.
An anonymous source from within Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio advised that executives would be flying to Barbados on the money garnered from their premiun rate hikes. “We got another one!”, one giddy executive allegedly shouted as he pumped his fist in glee.
Of course, that wasn’t actually the story but that really is the heart of the story President Obama is pushing on his “Please Trust Me” whirlwind tour.
The real deal is that Ms. Canfield is getting medical care right now. She was admitted to a hospital and given several tests, even though she doesn’t have health insurance. Her only concern, and its not a trivial one, is the hospital bill she’ll owe. But, and this is not trivial either, she can pay that bill over time or get help paying that bill from her friends and relatives. Why, I bet the hospital would accept a personal check from Barack Obama himself (but Ms. Canfield shuoldn’t hold her breath waiting for that. His concern tends to stop right at the edge of Ms. Canfield’s usefulness as a political prop).
Curious citizens might want to look into the origins of employer-paid health care, which is the biggest reason health care is expensive. Why should you know, or even care, how much something costs if you aren’t paying for it? And why should insurance companies and physicians treat you like a customer when you aren’t?
Tags: National Health Care
Typo there, Jimmie–”even though she doesn’t have health care” should read “even though she doesn’t have health insurance“; as you said in the previous sentence, she’s obviously getting health care.
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