Thursday, July 29, 2004
Unclear on the Concept (#32 in a continuing series)
So I was wandering around the ‘sphere today and wound up in an unfamiliar neighborhood where I encountered a most peculiar conclusion (and since have lost the link, alas, but that may be a good thing, really). A woman was complaining that she has thus far been unable to get her very sick six year old daughter in to see the sort of specialist that would seem indicated for the sort of illness from which said daughter suffers. In a related post, it becomes clear that the problem is one with her health plan, which doesn’t want to cover such a visit, among other things. She uses her situation as an example of why we need a nationalized health care plan.
Want to guess the punchline?
The cruel bastards denying her coverage are not Blue Cross, or Kaiser, or any other major corporate health insurer. They aren’t even a crummy minor corporate insurer. Nope.
They’re the state of Oregon’s version of medicaid.
*bangs head against wall*