Tag Archives: Healthcare Stories

This is an extreme solution to getting free healthcare. Deliberately going to prison. James Richard Verone spent his whole life playing by the rules and staying out of trouble. Having worked as a delivery man for Coca Cola for 17 … Continue reading →

Great system, or the greatest system? In 2003, William Koehler of Pittsburgh, Pa. lost his job as an electronics technician. He lost his health insurance, too, but he’d been lucky enough to have the defibrillator battery in his heart changed … Continue reading →

Get ready to flip your shit. A Florida woman, who is a victim of sexual abuse, claims that rape was called a “pre-existing condition” by several health insurance companies, which would have disqualified her for care. In 2002, Chris Turner, … Continue reading →

The American healthcare system: great system or the greatest system? [Dawn] Smith, a premiums-paying customer of CIGNA, was diagnosed with a type of brain tumor in 2005, then another one in 2007. Although CIGNA covered her brain biospy and some … Continue reading →

No insurance for “fat” babies: By the numbers, [four-month-old] Alex [Lange] is in the 99th percentile for height and weight for babies his age. Insurers don’t take babies above the 95th percentile, no matter how healthy they are otherwise. [...] … Continue reading →

This story is heart-wrenching: For the past 18 months, [Craig] Heller has been trying to get his wife, Ingrid Martinez-Rico, the care she needs after an auto accident left her unable to walk, feed herself or use the bathroom on … Continue reading →

From a reader about wait times for surgery in the United States: I’m 77 and after 12 years of pain and finally now I’m almost crippled (osteoarthritis), I am awaiting surgery. Wait time? THREE MONTHS. Maybe my surgeon, a very … Continue reading →