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- From: dhe@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Duanfeng He)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Can one be denied insurance based on citizenship?
- Message-ID: <78563@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 13:54:43 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA
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- In <JDESAI.92Dec21165120@sundeck.East.Sun.COM> jdesai@sundeck.East.Sun.COM
- (Jatin Desai -- Contractor) writes:
-
-
- >Incidently, I am looking at another insurance coverage for health with
- >$1 million lifetime limit per family. While the figure sounds
- >big at the moment, I am afraid 15 years from now, $1 million may not
- >be enough. Am I worrying too much i.e. If they stick $1m worth of
- >organs/needles/fluids in my body, who cares if I live?
-
- Well, the intent is interesting, but I don't think it will work out
- even if you get to buy the insurance.
-
- I vaguely remember recently there was a case the US Suprime Court
- refused to hear. In it some people sued the insurance companies
- for dropping their insurance and refuses to pay after they are
- found to have serious illness.
-
- In essence, the Suprime Court seems to be saying that although
- you bought $x million health insurance, at the moment you found
- you need that much, or any other sizeable chunk, the insurance
- company can drop you.
-
- Rephrase it in even another way, it feels like the insurance
- business encourages us to become self-insured for any real health
- problem. But if we are healthy and don't need the insurance (at
- least at the moment -- who cares about the long run!), we are
- welcome to contribute money to them.
-
- I'm sure there is something wrong here. I hope Clinton has a
- fix for it.
-
-
- Duanfeng He
- --
- Duanfeng He (Jackson) Duanfeng.He@AtlantaGa.NCR.com
-