Saturday, March 13, 2010

One Percent, Day Sixteen: "These stories are wrong. They are heartbreaking."

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Their child was born with severe hemophilia. They had health insurance -- but the insurance company upped their premiums to over $12,000 per year, with a $10,000 deductible, and then they found out they have a lifetime cap -- so there was a limit to the care their child would get.

Oh, and the medication their son gets, once a day, costs $1,000 a day -- they were paying $25,000 per year and then got hit with an $$80,000 bill. Listen to their whole story:




They HAD health insurance. Fat lot of good it did them. I hate Republicans.

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