How's this for twisted: An insurance company, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, have demanded that the parents of minor children who suffer from anorexia turn over their children's writings on MySpace and Facebook, as well as any emails where they discuss their problems.Lovely. Way to show you want to heal people rather than screw them for their money and not help them when in need, besides invading their privacy and doing more untold damage to the teenager in question.
The insurer says that eating problems are not "biologically based" and are therefore not covered.
Tell me again, why we are paying insurance premiums?
4 comments:
Simply brilliant. But its things like this which show just how broken our services truly are.
"Thanks for the premiums."
But, but, but being human is a pre-existing condition.
There were many interesting comments on the thread of that post (and one troll, of course), but even people who were sympathetic to the family neglected to mention that children are treated differently under the law.
If an adult posts something to a public site... FaceBook, MySpace, their public blog, etc. ... they have presumptively made a judgment to make that information public. If a child or adolescent does the same, the matter is a lot less clear. The various legal threshold ages... the age of adulthood for various purposes including determination of criminal punishment, the age of sexual consent, the age at which one may obtain a license to drive a motor vehicle, etc. ... are there for a reason: young people's brains are demonstrably biologically not fully developed for exercising independent judgment. It seems to me that to subpoena a child's "public" postings is to toss this legal principle out the window.
(FTR, IANAL.)
What medical care? Did they mention medical care? We're paying insurance to protect us from .. ah .. um.. insurance companies!
Here's a receptionist who has taken it to heart. She gets a heart attack victim to pay the 5 dollars copay as she is being taken away on the ambulance gurney...
Isn't America great?
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