Kidney donors may face huge medical bills because having one kidney may constitute a pre-existing condition under which coverage is denied, officials confirm.
A Texas hospital official said organ donors are told, but only orally, that having one kidney may be a pre-existing condition affecting insurance.
Philip Knisely, 53, of Austin, Texas, who donated a kidney to a co-worker a year ago, has received more than $18,000 in related medical bills, and said he was not informed that if he ever lost his employment-related insurance, insurers might consider his having a single kidney an uninsurable pre-existing condition, the American-Stateman reported Sunday.
Best health care in the world!
Very good article on the welfare state.
#115, Bobbo,
I like the UNCENSORED part of DU. It might take a bit more work/discretion/thought==for that I compliment the staff at DU.
In principle and concept I love the idea. As we all discover though, there will be those with certain mental maladies AND access to a keyboard that should be restrained. I don’t know if you were with us a few years ago when we had a gentleman from New York City who would post long passages about how some woman came to him in a dream and fornicated all night. Make that LOOOOONG and graphic. Repeatedly. I understand that he was banned. And the world didn’t stop but DU improved.
As I heard someone on the radio yesterday saying football is a great analogy. An organized game functions very well, everyone knows the rules and trust in the final score. In a pick-up football game there are no referees to enforce any rules and they often fall into pure mayhem. People will cheat just because they can.
What happened here is someone got tired of Alphie and posted something unflattering. Alphie deserved it in my opinion. Alphie, in kind, blew his little mind. Does this blog’s readers deserve the anarchy that ensued? No.
This is the point where the management could have stepped in and laid down the law about personal attacks. While I disagree with Uncle Dave on this exact point I concede it is his to make and noticed that later Alphie was twice deleted for violations.
The largest reason Liebertarians don’t want rules and regulations is because they wish to feel free to become the anarchists they usually have deep inside. Society as a whole though functions very well when we know the rules. Society usually fails when the rules are non-existent or unenforced.
The vast majority of people don’t need to be policed. What they want are guidelines to follow. Of course, there will always be that small majority that stretch the rules as far as they can or stray beyond the rules.
#120, The largest reason Liebertarians don’t want rules and regulations is because they wish to feel free to become the anarchists they usually have deep inside.
You should learn about something before you start spouting lies.
If you were to answer the question you posed to me, you might learn something about it.
#121, Loser,
If you were to answer the question you posed to me, you might learn something about it.
Liebertarians want to remove all regulations that constrict THEM. Regulations they might benefit from they are content to leave as is.
My question to you is still “Why do you hate America”. At your request, I will answer it for you.
You hate America because you are a dreamer in your mother’s basement. You posed that you “own” a business doing municipal work making mega bucks. Yet you know nothing of running a business. Big, bad, government has denied you the opportunity to become super rich when you still haven’t finished High School. That society would want you to pay or contribute is pretty audacious in your opinion leading to your hate for America, what she stands for, and why you are and will forever be a failure.
#122, You still aren’t answering the question.
#123,
And you are still a loser.
#124, We’re all losers, so tell me something I don’t know.
Why would you sacrifice others to save your wife?
This may be the only time that question is even partially applicable.
If you want to save your wife by donating your kidney, why should you be penalized?
Answer: The system is not setup for your benefit. The insurance co would see you dead to save a nickel.
#125, Why do you hate America when you still make use of your mother’s basement?
#128, It’s not a healthcare question. It’s a character question.
#129, tsk, tsk. Trying to change the subject again.
Why would you sacrifice others to save your wife?
I’ve answered that question for you, at your “polite” request.
Now return the favor.