[pabianice]

For what it's worth. The Dumpster Divers are foaming at the mouth with self-righteousness.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Would some of them wish to take up a collection for the poor fellow?

That’s pretty drastic, to pull the rug out from under all subscribers who must now scramble anew for different coverage on the merits of their current conditions rather than what they were when they signed up. This “dog” hurt a lot of cats too.

[staytrue]

I wonder if I have saved enough money and want to retire early, will I be allowed to.

If I stop working and pay less tax, won’t a lot of children starve ?

[dirtboy]

For what it's worth. The Dumpster Divers are foaming at the mouth with self-righteousness.

So tell us again how an insurance company should be able to sell coverage and then cancel it when things don't go as well as planned. It's akin to Goldman making billions and then going to the government to bail out its poor risk management.

[DuncanWaring]

The cost of Pearl’s annual treatment is approximately $1 million a year.

That's nearly $3000 PER DAY.

Someone's making a pile of money on that one.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Instead of socializing medicine....just make the insurance policies “contracts”....insurance companies need to start taking the risk...and stop reneging on deals that they made

[Jo Nuvark]

Pretty convenient for this “story” about evil
insurance companies to surface at this time.

Here’s the link to the Washington Times article
so you won’t need to be decontaminated after
visiting Democratic Underground.

1. Prove it costs $1mil a year for this patient.

2. Name the exec and produce the “dog” email or shut up.

3. The government has called us far worse for demanding government accountability.

4. The court said the actions of the insurer legal.

(Corrected paragraph:) A Guardian spokesman said policies such as Mr. Pearl’s - which offered unlimited home nursing - had simply become too expensive for new small-business customers to buy, and that even Medicaid and Medicare do not cover 24-hour home nursing. His parents, Warren and Susan Pearl of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said their health insurance premiums had risen over the years to $3,700 a month.

[dfwgator]

Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you’re told
Get out of the road
If you want to grow old

[TheThinker]

So instead of demanding this guy's resignation, we destroy the healthcare system.

That's just so brilliant it's beyond conception.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Robotics might prove to be a near-term (partial) solution to the high costs of round-the-clock personal care.

http://www.kineticconsulting.co.uk/healthcare-it/healthcare-robots.pdf

[Onelifetogive]

Legally barred from discriminating against individuals who submit large claims, the New York-based insurer simply canceled lines of coverage altogether in entire states to avoid paying high-cost claims like Mr. Pearl’s.

Anyone with a double digit IQ (or better) can see the logic flaw here. There are people like Mr. Pearl in every state. Something must be different about New York to make insurance companies drop coverage there for everyone.

[marstegreg]

There are a few things that I don’t understand about the situation. My son was born very ill. One of the first things they wanted to do was put him on permanent disability/medicare. How come Mr. Pearl wasn’t put on disability/medicare to begin with? Why was he counting on private insurance anyway? If someone knows, please explain.

[SampleMan]

So we are to believe that an insurance company opted out of an otherwise profitable state (an entire state), so that they could maliciously cancel on person.

Yea, right. And there are whack jobs out there that actually believe this crap.

[calex59]

Anyone who believes this sh** needs their head examined.