Just heard on the news that Crystal Lee Sutton, the inspiration for the movie "Norma Rae," died of untreated brain cancer because her insurance company refused to pay.
More at Huffington Post: ReThinking Norma Rae: A Union Icon Falls Fighting the Healthcare Industry
In an interview last year with the Burlington Times News, Sutton described battling her health insurance provider for the care she needed.
[Sutton] went two months without possible life-saving medications because her insurance wouldn't cover it, another example of abusing the working poor, she said.
"How in the world can it take so long to find out (whether they would cover the medicine or not) when it could be a matter of life or death," she said. "It is almost like, in a way, committing murder."
Yes, it is like committing murder--murder by spreadsheet. Meanwhile,
Cheney's in the hospital getting elective back surgery, courtesy of his taxpayer supported health care plan.