Yesterday I wrote a blog about a young man with a serious brain injury who is slowly recovering at Palomar Medical Center.
Blue Cross California wanted to terminate his treatment and shunt him off to a nursing home, or send him home.
That diary sank without a trace, buried in a flood of opinion pieces about candidates, and that is sad. I was hoping that enough people would read it to make a noise that would cause Blue Cross to reverse its decision.
Well, so much for the power of the internet. Apparently Hillary and Obama are just so much more of a vital topic that everyone and their brother had to chip in their two cents.
Hardly anyone read it, and that is too bad, because this case pretty much outlines what we have to look forward to if certain pols get elected. Medicine by bureaucrats flying a desk, determining what course to take. I am disgusted, both by the lack of attention Scott Eveland's story got, and the treatment he's getting from Blue Cross California.
Original diary here:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here we go, "ESCONDIDO – Rejecting an appeal from his family, Blue Cross of California is discontinuing payments that would allow injured high school football player Scott Eveland to remain in the hospital."
Scott was responding well, but slowly, to therapy. He was in a coma for a month, and is gradually regaining his ability to move and talk again.
"Blue Cross, however, decided that Eveland's progress was not dramatic enough, and is recommending that he be transferred either to a nursing home or Eveland's home in San Marcos."
In other words, he isn't recovering fast enough to suit the suits at Blue Cross. You could have made a difference.
Alas, Hillary's latest bon mot was more important.