Health Care Rationing Denies Medical Treatment to Florida Grandma
BRADENTON, FLORIDA –Burdened by a back problem that may be cured through long-term physical therapy but would otherwise take an expensive and risky operation to correct, Bradenton resident Deborah S. Miller was surprised to find that her therapy treatments would no longer be covered. “It makes no sense,” she said. “A little therapy now can prevent an expensive operation later.”
Sad to say, this decision was not made by a government body whose opinion might be swayed by a plea from an elected representative, but by Blue Cross, one of the private industry health insurers the government-hating crowd wants to believe is always, in every way, superior to any group of public servants.
In a world where health care profit is more important than the actual care itself, Blue Cross’s decision makes sense despite the likelihood that it will lead to an expensive operation. It seems that, with Miller’s husband out of work and his COBRA subsidy running out in just a few months, Miller will soon be forced to drop Blue Cross and to depend on the “die quickly” health insurance plan that Republicans have deemed the most effective way to care for the millions of Americans who cannot afford health insurance and have no other way to pay for treatment.