The local Down Syndrome Clinic cancelled the appointment of a colleague’s little girl with Down Syndrome who has been with that clinic since birth. Four days before Christmas this happened. I don’t need to explain to anybody why a Down Syndrome child really needs to have her appointments in a timely manner.
This is happening because of our insurance not paying doctors. I feel so bad for the colleague and the little girl that I think I will cry.
P.S. Rauner is a fanatical pro-lifer, by the way. But the people who choose not to abort a Down baby end up in a situation where they can’t provide care for her even though they make their insurance payments faithfully.
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It’s sad and phenomenally unjust on a variety of levels. I completely fail to understand why the plight of Illinois’s public employees hasn’t made national headlines.
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Because a non trivial number think this is laudable:
Start at 1:00.
That’s why I think HSAs — health savings accounts — having pools of money that we put in as individuals and as families, really can help us try to keep some of those costs down. Because it forces you into making a decision. Like, okay, I just had it: My youngest son went racing out the front door on his way to go to jump on the trampoline. I thought he was going to get injured going to the trampoline — he got injured on the driveway to the trampoline, fell, broke his arm. And we weren’t sure what was going on. It was in the evening, so I splinted it up and we wrapped it up, and the decision was, okay, do we go to the ER? We thought it was a sprain but weren’t sure, took every precaution and decided to go in the next morning. I mean, the cost difference — certainly, if he had been more seriously injured, we would have taken him in. That doesn’t become part of the question.
Keep in mind this is a House member (R-Michigan) who gets his gold plated health insurance paid and can more than likely afford the co-pays.
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I just closed my work email in extreme anger because the immediate response of a colleague to this sad story is “this is caused by a standoff between Rauner and Madigan.” Oh, fuck you, you dumb victim. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck you. It’s losers like you who can’t strain their brain and figure out what is going on who cause this shit. Dumb fuckers.
The profanity is aimed at the colleague, of course. Not at reader Shakti.
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How come the CEOs of these insurance companies don’t get prosecuted for failing to uphold the stipulations of a legal contract?
Wouldn’t that solve a few things?
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The problem is that the Governor of Illinois is refusing to give the health insurance company the permission to pay these claims. The money is there but the Governor won’t sign a state budget. For 2 years the state has had no budget because the governor doesn’t feel like signing one.
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