If you don't think that the for-profit health care system in the United States needs reform, you probably don't have a preexisting medical condition.I do, and so does Maggie Yount.
From David Lazarus in the Los Angeles Times:
San Marcos resident Maggie Yount wasn't surprised when the letter from insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross arrived the other day. Yet she couldn't help but be frustrated.
"Some medical conditions, either alone or in combination with the cost of medication, present uncertain medical underwriting risks," Anthem informed her. "In view of these risks, we find we are unable to offer you enrollment at this time."
In other words, no health coverage for you.
Yount, 24, finds herself in that cloudy area in which a "preexisting condition" makes her too great a risk in the eyes of money-minded insurance companies. And so she's being excluded from the system.
"It looks like I'll just have to be very, very careful about everything," Yount told me. "But what kind of way is that to live your life?"
"It looks like I'll just have to be very, very careful about everything," Yount told me. "But what kind of way is that to live your life?"
Great question.
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