Johnny’s in the basement, mixin’ up the medicine…I’m on the pavement, thinkin’ about the government
Turn up the volume…
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Dedicated to Barbara O’Brien, writing about another healthcare story.
One night, after coming home from school, Brittney suddenly found that she couldn’t walk. The cancer had attacked her spinal cord. As the doctors geared up to treat this new disaster, Ms. Hightower received word that her insurance policy had maxed out. The company would not pay for any further treatment.
Ms. Hightower was aghast: “I said, ‘What do you mean? It was supposed to be a $3 million policy.’ ”
She hadn’t understood that there was an annual limit of $75,000 on benefits. “It was just devastating when they told me that,” she said. …
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