Down here, y'all, in the great ::::cough cough:::: state of South Carolina, our supreme court has ordered Fortis Insurance to cough up $10 million for wrongly revoking coverage of a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV.
Yes, after he tested positive.
Jerome Mitchell learned he was HIV+ when he went to donate blood, and Fortis then rescinded his policy based on a note in his medical records that indicated he may have been diagnosed before obtaining insurance.
Should that make a difference? If you don't have insurance and are suddenly diagnosed with some condition that can be treated, should insurance companies be allowed to deny you service? Are we saying that you aren't allowed to get sick in this country before you have insurance?
Madness. Stupidity. Asshattery.
It IS madness, and at least they found in favor of the kid. Not everyone is so "lucky," and I use the term understanding the irony in this case. Poor kid.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on that one. But that Kid got himself a 40 million bonus. I am happy for him.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear of the favorable outcome in this case. You are so right...many diseases are insdious and don't appear for a long long time....not even symptoms. How is one to know? I suppose the next step is to claim that geneetically we had a predisposition to such and such a disease and thus we are obligatd to carry insurance but expect absolutely nothing in return for it.
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