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[ebonlock]

The next time you hear some media talking head saying they don't know what the message of OWS really is, I'd say that this one member of Occupy San Francisco says it quite well:

Miran Istina, 18, joined protests after four years of being denied life-saving bone marrow transplant for leukaemia

I'm happy to call corporations people, they just happen to be deeply sociopathic ones.

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Ok maybe I'm misinterpreting what I'm reading in the piece or what you're saying but what I'm seeing is that she was 14 when diagnosed. Now I'm reasonably sure she didn't have a personal policy at the time this started, which means she was on one of her parents' policies, right?

Now either she or the reporter may have simplified the story to be sure, but if you're asking me to believe that people don't fall through the cracks or get completely screwed over by the insurance companies on a nearly daily basis I can introduce you to a few I know personally and recommend a great movie by Michael Moore on the subject.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Presumably, but it works the same way for every person in the family on the policy -- she has the same protections.

And I agree, health insurance companies do screw people over all the time in other ways -- they just *cannot* do so in the way the story says it happened. It's the fact that the insurance companies are so vile that I think it's important to check out the story, because if it turns out that she's a fantasist or a plant instead of the reporter mangling her story, then it provides a reason for people to go "well, people are just lying about their stories when they say they got screwed."