America's Pay-or-Die Health Care System
As a person who has been disabled for 12 years now, even with insurance - I can attest to the tremendous and unmanageable burden health care costs have put on myself and my family. It's nothing less than a basic human rights violation. It's torture, it adds to the illness burden mentally & financially. As an American, a mother and a human being, there is something fundamentally wrong with this picture. By RALPH NADER This is a tale of pay or die that recurs again and again all over our country and only in our country in the entire western world. Advised by her physician to go to M.D. Anderson for urgent treatment of her leukemia, Mrs. Lisa Kelly was told she had to pay $105,000 up front before being admitted. The hospital declared her limited insurance unacceptable. Sitting in the business office with seriously advanced cancer, she asked herself – “Are they going to send me home?” “Am I going to die?” Time out from her torment for a moment. M.D. Anderson started this upfr...