A wonderful heart-warming story from the Florida station CBS4:
Mom With Cancer Gets Insurance Help For Transplant
A Hollywood woman who was dropped from Medicaid coverage while needing a bone marrow transplant is finally getting the coverage and treatment she needs to stay alive.
Diana Smith is battling a rare form of Leukemia and needs the transplant to survive. She managed to raise money to pay for it thanks to her friends and the community, but then last week she found out her Medicaid coverage was dropped - putting her operation on hold.
Smith had gone through six months of radiation and chemotherapy -- one week out of every month. She is in remission and had a donor for a transplant; being in remission is a prerequisite for the transplant.
But her hopes of receiving the transplant were dashed in March, when she says, the Social Security Administration contacted her - without her soliciting it -- and told her that her three year-old son was entitled to receive Social Security disability payments. Even though she didn't ask for it, she signed the form and received her son's first check.
In April, Medicaid canceled her universal health care policy because her income level had risen with her son's payments - making her ineligible for the insurance program.
A perfect example of the difference between Government run care and citizen run care. Her friends and neighbors rallied and raised the money. The Government 'death panel' reviewed the case and without mercy, declared her to be ineligible because enough money had already been spent on her.
Fortunately, with all the publicity, the hospital, Social Security and Medicaid are going to 'work something out'. Scum sucking bottom feeders -- it takes holding their feet to the public fire to get them to do a compassionate act -- how many other people have died because the were not able to get their story known...
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