I have recently written you as concerns disability rights and issues, I believe that healthcare may be a more appropriate topic. I beg you to maintain protections for coverage of pre-existing conditions. The actions of unethical companies that deny covered issues on the basis of a "pre-existing condition" inhibit free commerce, reduce mobility in the work force, and can sentence patients to death. It has been said that no one dies from denied healthcare. I beg to differ.
Raul Labrador, ID
While emergency rooms are required to provide lifesaving aid in case of a life threatening event, planned preventative care is not able to take place. In my situation, had I not arrived at the ER, prior to the Affordable Care Act, my operation to remove my brain tumor could have been denied. I would have been left to slowly waste away instead of moving forward to work again following rehabilitation.
Emergency Room:Legal Responsibilities
One life is too much. The issue of healthcare and coverage is a tricky one, but workers and businesses pay more than enough in premiums to pay for the healthcare needed. What they do not pay enough for is balloon payments and bonuses to insurance workers for denying claims, harassing patients, and using internal policies to pay the minimum possible.
Los Angeles 2009
CNN 2007
Please, don't leave another loophole to be exploited. I beg you to protect me, and please protect my children, protect their future. Please, don't make me have to talk to them again about mommy dying before they are grown up.
Thank you.
