Those who need organ transplants or who have hemophilia, Gaucher disease or other costly chronic illnesses can easily rack up medical bills that blow through the lifetime benefits cap of $1 million or more that is a standard part of many insurance policies.

That has left some very sick people facing health-care tabs of hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, prompting their families to seek help from the government, or to scramble to change jobs or even divorce for no other reason than to qualify for new health insurance. And it has led some advocates for the chronically ill to plan a new lobbying effort in hopes of persuading Congress to require that insurers increase lifetime caps to as high as $10 million. (emphasis mine)

And when medical bills begin to blow through the new $10 million benefits cap, we’ll change it to $20 million… then $100 million. Whatever it takes to keep the money flowing into the pockets of insurers and the health care industry.

‘Grease’ was the word in the 1970’s. Today it’s ‘bloat’.

We need some serious discussion on health care reform in this country. There are people getting turned away at emergency doors. There are families losing their homes. Combating this by finding new ways to fatten fat-cat pockets even more is not the answer!

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