What’s Your Life Worth?
An article in last Monday’s Wall Street Journal (Apr 28th) talked about a women with leukemia who went to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX for treatment. The center didn’t like the women’s limited insurance and wouldn’t treat her unless she came up with $105,000 cash. Recently, lots of uninsured patients have been getting care and stiffing the center.
In a related story, a guy hiking on a mountain trail had the ground give way under him and ended up holding on to a tree root while dangling over a 3,000 foot gorge. Some other hikers came by, the guy yelled for help, and the hikers said, “We’ll help you but we need $105,000 up front, in cash. The last three people we helped promised to pay us $105,000 and we’re still trying to collect.”
May 3, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Nice writing style. I will come back to read more posts from you.
Susan Kishner