and I join you in a prayerful f--k you to the parasitic insurance industry. Appalling.

You have my deepest sympathy!

All best to her children, family, and you.

I hope her children will be all right...

My deepest condolences to all of you who love her.

battling a disease we could eradicate if the Big Corporations would give up their purchased "right" to say their poisons and toxins are safe.

And then nasty fact of her having to spend her time battling her insurers.

This is exactly why we need Universal Single Payer You Know the rest.

I abhor what we do to so many people w/o appropriate health care ins... I'm there and only by the "grace of god go I"

Condolences to you and your family.

how it feels to lose a parent at a tender age. My dad died when I was 22 and I also had a little sister age 11 and a little brother age 4 at the time. My parents had the 2 youngest late in life. That youngest brother never got over his death and then when our mother died of a heart attack right in front of him as a 22 yr old. It was to much for him. This brother would never go to the doctor and at the age of 39 he died of lung cancer and he never smoked. So my heart goes out to you. Life sometimes really isn't fair. But you know that as times go by you will remember the good times and you will smile.

I'm sorry about her passing and I'm sorry that she had to spend the last years of her life dealing with an extra source of stress that in any other civilized country would not have been necessary.

This is beyond sad. Those poor kids.

And a huge FU to this country's health care system.

May she RIP.

And yes, F our horrible excuse for a health care system.

the insurance companies are another cancer and it should be illegal for them to harass.

My deepest condolences to all the family.

And I will HAPPILY join you in that FUCK YOU.

Fortunately, I survived it, and even more fortunately, I was able to move back to the UK. I hope my cancer never returns, but if it does, at least I know that my treatment will be free at the point of delivery.

I am sorry for your grief -- and I am compeltely in agreement with you -- it's not the government that gets between you and your medical care -- it's the g.d. insurance company!
Yet, idiots who don't think straight are afraid to vote for single payer health care.

Tom Delay look like a puppy dog in their ability to literally beat the life out of one. Take good care of them and sorry that it is what it is. There are problems for SP but it's the future we're fighting for. So that those who come after us won't live in this hell.

LTD, my sincere condolences for your loss. I too, suffer from the horrible disease of cancer. My fight is slow and steady and I hope I have many years left. You seem like a level headed person so, your wish is my command . . .

FUCK THE MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANIES.

They should not exist, putting profit over human life is unconscionable.

Your Welcome and Angles now surround you.

and a big ass'd fuck you to the system!

A hug for you.

you possibly could for your beloved step-sister.

Here's to those greedy bastards in the medical insurance field and especially to the politicians they own - FUCK YOU

the insurance companies.

My younger brother died of pancreatic cancer not long ago and he/we had to fight for the damn insurance also.

Cancer sucks!
(and) Fuck the insurance system!

I wish courage and strength to you and her family in the days ahead.

it is not fair that a person is fighting a deathly illness and their insurance company.

That is all.

And it adds insult to injury that she had to fight with the insurance company while battling the cancer.

There is no health *care* in this country. Just profit$ for the CEOs. We need single payer NOW!

and agree with what you say about single payer.

to you and your family

for both patients and families. The sneaky way they try to deny care ends up making everyone wonder if something else could have been done---something that the insurance company would not pay for.

It just isn't right for this to happen.

Things need to change and soon.

I really don't know when people will finally figure out that insurance companies are killing people in this country. It just is a sad state of affairs.

Strength and peace.

and the kids

And I am so sorry for your loss.

That is what I have said all along. It only takes one illness to get you on that side. I'm with you.

and a HUGE FUCK YOU for the insurance industry.

I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer a month ago. He had medicare and supplemental insurance as my mom worked for NY State her whole career and we all often wondered what people who didn't have that did about home health care and the like. Our whole family supposts single payer - it's the only answer and wont bankrupt us.

In 1995, my husband was diagnosed with lung cancer (right lung). They removed 2/3 of his lung...the usual stay in the hospital for this surgery was 5 - 7 days. My husband had health insurance from his employer. Unfortunately he was in the cardio-thoracic ICU for 3 weeks. His insurance would only pay for 6 days.....we were left with a 6-figure bill!! We were forced to file bankruptcy. Then in 2002 he was diagnosed again with lung cancer (left lung - they removed half of that lung). AT that time he was receiving SS disability & on Medicare..we had a supplemental policy ---- and had to pay $0 for his surgery....SINGLE-PAYER NOW!!!!

Sad to know that she had to run through the gauntlet and torment of medical insurance shenanigans.

We had to go through bankruptcy. Do you know how hard that is? I am sure the poster does, but think about it. I had 2 other kids to support. Profit in health care, what a joke!

I am truly sorry, my Friend.

And I DESPISE insurance companies. They are blood sucking vultures who provide NO value at all and make money on human suffering. I wish there was a hell so insurance company execs would burn in it.

How sad that her last years were spent in part fighting with the insurance company. She should have been focusing on staying as healthy as possible and spending time with friends and family.

Health care for profit never has the best interests of those who are sick in mind, because what's best for patients hurts the bottom line.

and here's my FUCK YOU too because if the ACA is overturned, I'll have to divorce my husband of 28 years because he's reached our insurance company's arbitrary lifetime benefits cap (diabetes type I for 53 years). Yeah, the GOP is the party of family values, all right. Some choice--divorce or financial ruin. America sucks.

Again, my condolences to you and your family.

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”

and a FU to the insurance companies.

The United Corporations of America's idea of vanity license plates: naming the hospital for the highest bidder.

He had a very rare, inherited form of cancer caused by a mutated gene. We had only Medicare for him...no "Medi-gap" or anything like that. And I thank (your deity of choice here) for Medicare. We weren't turned down or given less than cutting edge treatments. He was always treated with respect and caring. At one point when we were taking our last good, hard swing at that bastard disease, I had made a comment about "Yeah, I know, we have to wait until everything's approved." His doctor said, "Oh, no. We can start his treatments tomorrow. You guys have Medicare, they always approve. That's why doctors like it." And Sarah Palin's "death panel"? My conversation with his doctor about hospice care. BTW, hospice workers are angels on earth. I'm eternally grateful to them...if you are one, thank you. If you know one, thank them.


My point here is that I am thoroughly convinced that if we had insurance through a for profit agency, they would have cut off his access to treatment as soon as the Lynch Syndrome diagnosis came through, I would have lost him 2 years sooner, and his final time would have been a horror. I just think they would have decided he had a "pre-existing condition" (Remember, this was an inherited trait. His fate was sealed the moment that sperm fertilized the egg.), and would have not only refused to pay for his treatment, they would have come after us to repay anything they had paid for leading up to his diagnosis.

Single payer is a must for this country. It's the only way some people will ever be able to access health care before they're old enough for Medicare. But the Democrats problems are multi-pronged. First, they have no balls. Harry Reid has been "compromising" (read: folding his hand) since day one. They also have no idea how to handle power. Republicans get drunk with power and immediately start over-reaching. Democrats get stupid. Reid has let the Senate be completely tied up for the last 3 years because he's too gutless to force the Republicans to actually filibuster, instead of letting them file a card saying they are. And they don't know how to market their own ideas. They keep letting the Republicans set the ground rules, and can't figure out why they're losing the game. They keep blowing opportunities to do things that 65% (and higher) of the people support. Somebody in that party better grow a spine...and soon.