Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: A Tear for Kimberly
Mon Sep. 28, 2009 11:33 AM PDT
Kimberly Young, 22, died from swine flu on Wednesday. Sadly, it has been reported that she delayed treatment due to a lack of health insurance. Although there's no guarantee that earlier treatment would have saved her life, it would be hard to find a more obvious example of the need to fix our broken health insurance system.
Kimberly Young was a previously healthy 2008 graduate of Miami University of Ohio. She was diagnosed with swine flu and pneumonia. However, she was reluctant to seek treatment because she had no insurance. Brent Mowery, her friend and former roommate, said:
"That's the most tragic part about it. If she had insurance, she would have gone to the doctor."
On Sept. 22, Kimberly Young's condition suddenly worsened, and her roommate drove her to McCullough Hyde Memorial Hospital in Oxford. She was then flown in critical condition to University Hospital in Cincinnati, where she died.
Ironically, Young is a constituent of John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate minority leader. Last week on Meet the Press, he dismissed the public option as "big government" while defending a watered-down health reform plan.
Boehner, who makes a show of crying in public over Democrat war appropriations, has been a staunch foe of real health reform. Well, here is your rationing. Here is your death panel. Here and now. Administered by the very efficient insurance industry. Okay so long as it’s not the government, right? What, Rep. Boehner, not one tear for Kimberly?
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Kimberly Young did not die from H1N1
Submitted by Raul (not verified) on Tue Sep. 29, 2009 12:28 AM PDT.
Complications from viral pneumonia were the cause
She was initially hospitalized in the Oxford area with flu-like symptoms, but was released and returned to her home in Oxford. However, Young's condition worsened and she was taken by air ambulance to a Cincinnati area hospital. She had developed pneumonia and had kidney failure, according to Miller. She was taken off life support and died early Wednesday.
Her funeral was Saturday at Mount Zion United Brethren Church near the village of Wayne
By Jan Larson - Sentinel County Editor
http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpp/news/local/wupw_local_mediapartners_kimberl...
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As I sit here on the last day of my insurance the day before I start my new job (were I have to wait 6 months for health insurance) I await a toothe extraction at Laguna Palm Dental 916 691 1650. They tried to get a more expensive procedure while I have waited in the chair for an hour and as half. I am in serious pain and still I wait. My insurance won't cover the root canal and filling so I want it pulled out. But the 1000.00 will cover them pulling it out.I don't have the money so they make me feel like a second class vitezen. I was the
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Part 2
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