mcjoan talked a bit about Jerome Mitchell's case against Fortis/Assurant, an insurance company, on the front page the other day. I've been posting about this case for a while, and I was surprised as anyone by the court documents that got released this week.
Jerome Mitchell was 17 when he applied for insurance with Assurance in South Carolina. In 2002, at age 18, he was diagnosed with HIV. His coverage was then rescinded, citing the fact that a nurse miswrote the date on a paper sent to the insurance company. He thought it was just a mistake so he tried to get back on.
HIV is an expensive disease that requires thousands of thousands of dollars of medication a year, and if he didn't find someone to pay for that, he had two years to live.
Well, he wasn't let back on his insurance, he sued, and he won a $15 million settlement that was later reduced to $10 million in appeals.
Lots of people have posted about the real death panels here at Daily Kos, and buried in this article is a paragraph that talks about the real death panels. This stuff's real.
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