The Tragic Tale of Bill Mantlo
http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2011/11/07/tragic-tale
The double-horror of both what a hit-and-run accident did in traumatic brain injury to prolific comic book writer and lawyer Bill Mantlo and what CIGNA insurance has done to him, yet without breaking the law or denying an technically ethical obligation -- they didn't take the Physician's Oath.
What's worse is that the Affordable Health Care Act (the mis-named "Obamacare") wouldn't have made any difference.
At one point, while temporarily lucid, Mr. Mantlo asked his children to kill him.
If the name of Wendell Potter, who is quoted extensively in the latter part of the article, sounds familiar, it's because he's the CIGNA public relations official who left the company to become an advocate for patients to insurance companies and is also a consultant for MS-NBC on these matters. He's appeared several times on COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann, The Rachel Maddow Show, and THE LAST WORD with Lawrence O'Donnell.
Those of you who are local to St. Louis may consider that after the BJC Health System, owner of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, canceled their own Partners HMO, they farmed out their employee health insurance to CIGNA. Deity help any BJC employee who has a long-term traumatic brain injury. It would appear that even their own hospital will abandon them in the end, based on who they chose for employee health insurance.
The double-horror of both what a hit-and-run accident did in traumatic brain injury to prolific comic book writer and lawyer Bill Mantlo and what CIGNA insurance has done to him, yet without breaking the law or denying an technically ethical obligation -- they didn't take the Physician's Oath.
What's worse is that the Affordable Health Care Act (the mis-named "Obamacare") wouldn't have made any difference.
At one point, while temporarily lucid, Mr. Mantlo asked his children to kill him.
If the name of Wendell Potter, who is quoted extensively in the latter part of the article, sounds familiar, it's because he's the CIGNA public relations official who left the company to become an advocate for patients to insurance companies and is also a consultant for MS-NBC on these matters. He's appeared several times on COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann, The Rachel Maddow Show, and THE LAST WORD with Lawrence O'Donnell.
Those of you who are local to St. Louis may consider that after the BJC Health System, owner of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, canceled their own Partners HMO, they farmed out their employee health insurance to CIGNA. Deity help any BJC employee who has a long-term traumatic brain injury. It would appear that even their own hospital will abandon them in the end, based on who they chose for employee health insurance.