Comments on: Ian’s Law should be everywhere

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:08:02 +0000

How about me? Blue Cross cancelled my plan and just because I am in a group of older people. Is age 57 too old?

I paid 30 years for others to get great health care and now that I older I don’t get mine.

It is more about Mr. Klingsworth CEO getting 3.5 million dollars in salary this year when profits have fallen 46%.

Get real and don’t take it out on Ian, poor fellow. You should be ashamed of yourself, death courts are next. I’ll be on yours!

By: JC

JC — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:43:07 +0000

This case really points to the unsustainability of a health care system that will treat anyone for anything as if money grows out of a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Ian Pearl had a choice, he could have gone to a facility for treatment at a much more manageable cost or gotten around the clock in-home health care that is a fiscal drag on the rest of the system. He chose the latter, in my mind selfishly. Medical care that costs $1 million a year for 1 person is a train wreck waiting to happen. If 1 in 1000 people become Ian Pearl’s the 999 others would need to pay $1,000 a year more in premiums just to cover the one person’s ailments. Imagine if a decade from now we have some treatment that can improve the life of an autism patient but the drug and therapy or whatever they may come up with costs $200,000 a year. With 1 in 100 people being autistic, that would be an extra $2,000 in premiums those other 99 people would pay. The more we innovate and create better healthcare outcomes for more people for more money, the closer we get to imploding the system. What we will inevitably head towards is a multi-tiered healthcare system based on the ability to pay, however unethical you think that may be.

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By: ABRAAO CRISTINA

ABRAAO CRISTINA — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:12:09 +0000

I take issue with the guy who asked the questions if the guy is worth 2740, I would say that people have no price. Everyone should have access to healthcare, it should not just be a benefit but a right, and more so being born in US, one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It is sad that if you are going to the ER the first think that they will check is your credit report and not your pulse. I have lived in many countries of the world and this a preposition that America needs to get right. He is a person and he doesn’t has a price tag he is a priceless, I know that it is a cultural concept, it is a belief, is a paradigm that takes a heart change in order to grasp.

By: James G Hanna

James G Hanna — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:57:28 +0000

What can we do, as a Father and Mother of an MS sufferer,to get legislature of this sort in Washington?
Jim Hanna

By: David T Webb

David T Webb — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:44:02 +0000

Cancellation of policies like this insures death and suffering for innocent people whose only crime is being sick. Surely there must be laws against his kind of crime against humanity. This could not happen in most European countries, Canada, Japan or Taiwan where everybody is covered and nobody can be dropped at the whim of some greedy insurance executive.

By: Richard Pifer

Richard Pifer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:03:48 +0000

I saw this story today on CNN. Sure, it’s a feel good story. But you really need to give more attention to why it takes $1M/year to keep this guy healthy. And, whey should the people that pay their health insurance premiums to Guardian need to subsidize this guy’s $1M/year lifestyle? He seems like a nice guy, but is he really worth $2740/day? Sorry, but I’m just keeping real.