There was a great article on the front page, no less, of the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday about the financial toll cancer can take on a patient and their family. No kidding.
And some of these patients even have health insurance, good health insurance.
A report released last week by the American Cancer Society and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that even those cancer patients fortunate enough to have health insurance suffered severe challenges paying for their treatments.
Among the challenges the article listed: hefty out-of-pocket expenses, high cost-sharing requirements, caps on benefits and lifetime maximums on some policies. Imagine your health insurance policy telling you that you've been sick enough in your lifetime, and they're not going to pay any more.
In 2008, about 684,850 patients under age 65 were diagnosed with cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Imagine the challenges they face.
Link on "San Francisco Chronicle" above to see the whole article.
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