For those of you who still think that insurance coverage denial is simply few and far between, here is ANOTHER outrageous story. I truly believe, once again, those opposed to insurance reform have simply NEVER been faced with serious health challenges. Is it just me, am I the confused one about the purpose of health insurance? Isn’t insurance meant to cover you when you are SICK? How many other rape victims have suffered this same “pre-existing” reason for coverage being dropped?
When Christina Turner feared she had been sexually assaulted after two men drugged her drink in a bar, she did what most women facing that situation would do. She turned to her doctor, who prescribed a month’s worth of anti-AIDS medicine to be on the cautious side.
Only afterward did she learn that her choice left her with a “pre-existing” condition that had made her practically uninsurable.The episode started when Turner accepted drinks from the men at a bar in Fort Lauderdale. She passed out and later woke up lying beside a road with cuts and bruises that pointed to a rape or a sexual assault.
Fortunately, Turner did not contract HIV, and remains free of HIV infection. However, a few months she lost her health coverage. When she sought new coverage, she was told that her treatment raised too many potential issues.
Turner, 45, worked previously as a health insurance underwriter herself, and said the insurance companies naturally checked her health records. Even after she explained the sexual assault and the precautionary nature of the treatment, the insurers declined to sell her a policy, saying that the HIV medication made her too risky. The company told her they might reconsider the decision if she could show she was still free of HIV in three or more years.
@Emma
@Moon-howler
“blushing”… thank you both.
Did you see, Emma, he even bowed.
Am I mistaken, or did I post to this thread this morning and I don’t see it now?
Slow,
There are some administrative issues with comments. If it doesn’t appear, it isn’t personal 🙂 Just a glitch.
I will look for it slowpoke. No promises. We have software issues. If you used the H or N word it went to moderation.
If you post something that doesn’s show up, check for 2 different things: 3 links or saying the H or N word. Remove them and repost.
Can’t find it, Slow. Could you have put it elsewhere? It isn’t behind the scenes that I can tell.
Slow, never find it. I looked again.
true proof someone has been peeing in the gene pool.
There is more to it than just the HIV treatment as prescribed by her doctor….whilst she was insured to begin with. Many are denied because of the therapy aspect which costs a lot plus the antidepressants and any other medications that are needed to treat STDS or a deadly virus.
Rape victims are loathe to come forward as it is because of the assinine attitudes like the ones shown in this thread and the secondary wounding that happens first with the system, the rape kit process ( which in Houston they have to pay for themselves because of a shortage of funds) but then by society who somehow must blame the victims. Dissect their lives.. not the life of the turdsucker who did the CRIME… and then as if collection agencies and police interrogations and probes and meds, and therapy wasnt enough, to find this crap out about your insurance. what part of this seems NORMAL???