The Artvoice reported today that Blue Shield California twice refused to pay $2,700 emergency room claims by Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez, concluding that it was not a “reasonable” decision for her to go to the emergency room that morning when she awoke to a shirt saturated from blood with what turned out to be a breast tumor. Only after KPIX-TV reported the story did the insurance company pay the claim. Further, it reported that the National Women’s Law Center found that the laws of eight states permit insurance companies to deny health coverage to a battered spouse (as a “pre-existing condition”) since batterers tend to be recidivists.
School bus plow crash injures 22
January 22, 2011
A tragic school bus- snow plow crash injures 22 in upstate New York, between Syracuse and Rochester. Mercy flight helicopters from Canandaigua and Marcellus transported two of the wounded. Our prayers are with those hurt and their families.