Lawyer: Nurse assistant denied care after attacks

Terrible story.    These kind of things shouldn't happen.  Lots of lessons to learn for everyone.
This also gives more reasons to have some kind of health care reform.  There has to be another option or an alternative to just being covered by a private insurer and your insurance tied-up with your employer or to being employed. 

This story is just 'Exhibit A' for all the reasons that were given on why there should be a competition to private insurance and why the status quo will need to be changed.

This kind of situation can easily happen to anyone. 

God bless them.

Lawyer: Nurse assistant denied care after attacks

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LOS ANGELES – Amelia Mendoza's last words to her husband were that she was afraid she would be fired for reporting that she had been assaulted at her hospital nursing job.

Moments later, she had a massive hemorrhagic stroke that has left her in a vegetative state and in a health care limbo because of a dispute over her coverage.

Claims for her care have been denied by her insurer, Blue Cross, and by workers' compensation, Glauber said. He is appealing Mendoza's workers compensation denial and calling on the state board to expedite its response.

Amelia's husband, though on disability himself, has been forced to care for his wife in their home.

"Both breadwinners are gone," Glauber said. "If Blue Cross refuses to pay because they say it's a workers compensation case, and compensation care is not paying, then who's left?"