If you ever want to know just how bad our medical insurance system in this country is, just get cancer as a young adult. Get sick in a unconventional way with inconvenient timing and need any sort of specialized care...you will quickly discover is Medicare and just about any health insurance policy is laden with loopholes and sneaky ways to deny coverage for anything that doesn't fit their narrow minded criteria. Meanwhile, a young adult and her family are fighting for their damn life over here. Doesn't matter how hard you work or how successful you are when cancer comes knocking.
Medicare has denied coverage for a 24hr care facility for Melissa. We are appealing that decision. Without that coverage, there is no safe place for her to be discharged and access to her treatment and care is compromised, no to mention just her general safety would be compromised. It is bad enough that we have to fight cancer and for our lives...but to fight corrupt health insurance policies at the same time too?
Dear Medicare,
Is using any form of common sense and/or common decency too much to ask?
Sincerely,
ANY Disabled Young Adult Fighting Cancer
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