What is a Life Worth?

NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST
AGAINST HEALTH INSURANCE CORPORATIONS:
JUNE 19TH - PLEASE JOIN US!

Join patients, nurses, doctors, and Americans of every stripe protesting in memory of the countless victims of the insurance industry. Bring family, friends, and photos of loved ones harmed by insurance denials.

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Health Insurance Casualty of the Week   

What Do I Tell Isabelle?

Blog By Donna Smith, Activist/Patient from the Michael Moore film SiCKO

CHICAGO - Many years ago as an undergraduate in college, I read a book titled Disturbing the Universe (1979) by physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson. In the book, Dyson shares one particular recollection of his difficulty as a father talking to his then-young son about the realities of nuclear weapons development and use and how Daddy's work might contribute to that body of knowledge. Dyson wrote that it was difficult explaining such things to a child over breakfast.  Indeed. And as I read more and more patient horror stories that make their way to the guaranteedhealthcare.org Web page from all over the country, I have begun to think perhaps that is the test by which we should determine our future healthcare policy.

How will we explain our actions toward one another in the area of healthcare to our children over breakfast?  How will Brandy Kozisek, 32, of Eugene, Ore., explain to her daughter Isabelle that not only does her mom have a brain tumor for which she cannot get care, but that the condition is genetic and the insurance company won't pay to test Isabelle either? 

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