Tanya's Cancer Blog
January 22, 2007
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Well, I had the interview today with the reporter and it went really well. She was really cool, and Irvin and I spoke to her for almost 2 hours. A photographer came along and took a bunch of pictures, half of them were of me and Little Bear! (see dog photo…) Hey, you know how people love to read anything about pets… Anyway, she’s going to run the story this Sunday hopefully!
I also went and had all of my pre-op testing done today…lots of blood work, EKG, chest x-ray. Of course because we don’t have insurance now we had to pay $300 out of pocket for it! Everyone there was sympathetic, well, not enough to not charge us, but they were nonetheless floored at what health net did. We did speak to someone in the financial office, and she thought we have a good shot at getting state care. That would be great, it would pay for everything from now on at least, but we’d still get a HUGE bill from everything for the past 8 months. I’m talking 100k potentially.
Anyhoo…I spoke to a big-wig lawyer today that actually worked on the case brought against BCBS in CA (see the article I posted a link to before). The reporter I spoke to today actually called him and told him my story, and he thinks I might have a case. We’ll see, I’m not getting my hopes up or anything, but I’d love to sue health net for many times more than all of my health care combined would have ever cost them!
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wait, what? They took your insurance away for services already provided? Are you fucking kidding me? That should be illegal. There is something seriously wrong with this country.
I hope this lawyer does the trick. I’m so glad you did the tv interview. This shit needs to be exposed. Thank you for becoming an advocate. Don’t go down without a fight!
I hear you! I had another blow-out last night thinking about all this crap. I went so far to think that health insurance companies are really just the scam of the century…leading me to believe that I was insured when in actuality I wasn’t! When they rescind your policy they pretty much say you never had one, so they can go back and bill all of your providers for everything they already paid them in claims. Seems totally wrong, huh? Same thing happened in CA, and it’s exactly what that lawsuit is all about.
Unreal. My father always told me “insurance companies are the devil.” He was right!
Looking forward to reading your interview.
This a a good way to get the word out.
Sherri