Ugh.. I can't imagine putting a cap on the amount of treatment you can have for something like cancer, or that they'd even block someone from getting preventative treatment. :( It's inhumane!
The way I'm reading it, the companies do not currently cap coverage. (They do other horrible things, like place insane surcharges on the employers of cancer patients, but not that.) The Senate bill would have allowed them to create caps, the Cancer Society quickly pointed out the problem, and the bill is now being revised.
Yes, we have been unable to afford physical therapy for my wife because her annual cap ran out very early in the year. I want to say March, but that might be exaggerating. Sure, it's not cancer, but she's in pain because of it.
Okay, wow. That article has CHANGED from when I originally posted it. In fact, they're probably trying to "close the loophole" since it got found out and reported to the press!
Ah, well. At least the attention the media gave it caused them to try to fix it.
Don't you know that if you get a horrible disease, and you can't pay for it, clearly you did something wrong and God is punishing you for being such a sinner? If you were good and virtuous you wouldn't get sick, or you'd be rich enough to pay for it, sinner.
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