Open Question: How great is the American healthcare system?
1 in 10 people with cancer said they could not obtain health coverage, and six percent said they lost their coverage, because of being diagnosed with the disease.
It is legal in nine states for insurers to reject applicants who are survivors of domestic violence, citing the history of domestic violence as a pre-existing condition.
When offering coverage, insurers can exclude whole categories of illnesses related to a pre-existing condition. For example, someone with a pre-existing condition of hay fever could have any respiratory system disease ? such as bronchitis or pneumonia ? excluded from their future coverage.
When a person is diagnosed with an expensive condition such as cancer, some insurance companies review his/her initial health status questionnaire. In most states? individual insurance market, insurance companies can retroactively cancel the entire policy if any condition was missed ? even if the medical condition is unrelated, and even if the person was not aware of the condition at the time. Coverage can also be revoked for all members of a family, even if only one family member failed to disclose a medical condition.
http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7591.pdf
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090616/rescission_supplemental.pdf
http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1240250946756LS-1982%20Heart%20and%20Stroke%20Update.042009.pdf
http://srab.cancer.gov/prevalence/canques.html
Isn’t that an awesome system?
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:13:03 GMT
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