Lately I've known a lot of people dealing with cancer. Whether it's my friends whose parents have died. Whether it's actually people in my age group who are dealing with it. There's a lot of very visible support cancer patients get from the larger community in this country: ribbons to be worn, walks to be undertaken etc.
But historically if a cancer patient actually made it through they found themselves hard pressed to find a health insurance carrier to cover them...even for the non-cancer-relatedtype stuff.
According to Henry over at InsureBlog, that may be changing.
It's not like the carriers are suddenly getting altruistic; it's just that I guess they finally had to acknowledge that the statistical outcome for cancer patients these days is a lot different (i.e. a lot better) than it used to be.
Henry's message is that people who have survived cancer shouldn't assume they are uninsurable, that they should look into insurance.
Good advice.
Hi Elisa!
Thanx for the kind words, and the link.
I am truly pathetic with the whole trackback thing; I've tried 4 times to tb to this post, with no luck. Probably too much turkey last night ;-)
Posted by: hgstern | November 25, 2005 at 01:37 PM