[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Laurie Simons, Co-Producer of the Healthcare Movie has cancer and insurance won't totally cover it

[Caroline Yacoub]

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From: Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
To: Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Sent: Sun, June 16, 2013 11:46:41 PM
Subject: Laurie Simons, Co-Producer of the Healthcare Movie has cancer and 
insurance won't totally cover it


This is the Healthcare Movie email. You can sign up to receive. Laurie Simons 
and her husband produced the Healthcare Movie. 



If you scroll down there is a link to her blog where she describes her recent 
 journey through the unfair insurance system as she gets treatment for malignant 
melanoma on her face. 


She lists all the expenses and what her insurance will or will not pay for. She 
is 62 so not yet eligible for Medicare. Her husband also writes updates on the 
blog. I wished her well and told her that I was sending this to my lists esp. 
since many have seen their wonderful movie.

You can also contact her with a get well message. I'm sure she would find that 
comforting.

Lynn




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From: HealthcareMovie at healthcaremovie.net
To: lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com
CC: 
Subject: We're not done yet
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:02:38 -0700


 

       

     
 www.healthcaremovie.net           
 
   
          

      We are not done yet.  

While Obamacare does some good things, it still requires everyone to buy 
insurance from insurance companies whose reason for being is to make a profit. 
 While there may be some government help with high premium costs, needed 
coverage may still be lacking, and overall costs will continue to rise.  It 
costs less to cover everyone than to keep dividing people into "risk pools"!  

Single payer healthcare costs less, covers everyone, and has better outcomes. 
 What's wrong with  that?

 Our silence is consent.  Let's be silent no more.   

 ORDER A DVD
 HOST A SCREENING OF THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE
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Here is Our Chance to Speak Out!

The Drive for Universal Healthcare starts in Augusta, Maine on September 2nd, 
2013.  If you can't be there in person, you can help someone else participate by 
hitting the donate button on the DUH website.  


 Things Happen....
Healthcare Movie co-producer Laurie Simons had a suspicious freckle growing on 
her cheek.  Recent biopsies revealed malignant melanoma.

Insurance did not cover the two required surgeries, because Laurie is out of 
state and therefore, for the most part, out of network.

It's hard to hide a health problem that leaves a scar in the middle of your 
face, so Laurie and Terry have created a blog with the full story.  Check it out 
at www.facing-forward.net.

 Your comments are welcome.

  


"Health insurance is not the same as health care"  Donna Smith

When healthcare becomes a commodity instead of a social service, people need to 
protect their financial assets from unexpected medical expenses.  Health 
insurance does not provide you with healthcare, it only offers a way to protect 
your assets (if you are lucky and your condition qualifies for payment).  High 
costs of healthcare are out of control in the U.S.
  
 
Check out these articles and videos for more information:



TIME MAGAZINE:  
Bitter Pill:  Why Medical Bills are Killing Us


THE NEW YORK TIMES:
The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill 


CBS NEWS:
The Cost of Admission segment 



THE TIM CAFFREY SHOW
Featuring Donna Smith, Executive Director of Healthcare For All Colorado, whose 
story was featured in Michael Moore's movie SICKO. 

  


Recent Comment About The Healthcare Movie:
Thank you for your excellent movie. I just ordered 5 copies to distribute to 
people I know, including some of the Wisconsin State Legislature.
Here is a copy of [my] letter to the editor of the Cap Times in Madison, 
Wisconsin.
Dear Editor: I recently stopped at a garage sale at a home that was for sale and 
had a conversation with the owner. Several of her small children were riding 
their bikes in the driveway. She related to me they were selling their home and 
belongings because she and her husband were trying to pay off her medical bills 
after she had surgery in Madison. She had health insurance before she got sick, 
but when the insurer refused to pay for her heart surgery, they could not afford 
the $300,000-$400,000 doctor and hospital bills that are still piling up. The 
insurer claimed that her heart problem was a “pre-existing condition” she had 
when she purchased the policy 20 years ago. Obviously, 20 years ago, she was not 
in the congestive heart failure that necessitated the surgery. Nonetheless, they 
used the “pre-existing condition” to weasel out of paying for her surgery.
In 2009, while many Americans were losing their jobs and homes, five health 
insurance corporations boasted total profits of $12.2 billion — money that they 
collected by NOT providing care to patients. Before leaving, I personally 
apologized to her for being a part this health care system. Later that evening I 
watched “The Healthcare Movie,” which contrasts our greedy American system with 
Canada’s Medicare for ALL health care system. I strongly encourage all readers 
to view this informative (and justifiably embarrassing for Americans) movie.
Dr. Timothy Shaw,  Fitchburg, Wisconsin 
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