Prostate Cancer

The California Attorney General warned that state taxpayers will be left paying the bills for treatment that insurance companies are not required to cover under S.

1955's junk health plans: "As plans drop their maternity or other benefits, and as employees are priced out of coverage, the various Medicaid programs, and other health care programs in the states will become even more overburdened than they already are." Dana Christensen, a California widow who was insured with one of the junk health plans promoted under S.

1955, traveled to Washington D.C.

to oppose the legislation in the Senate.

Dana was left with over $450,000 in medical bills when her husband Doug passed away of bone cancer.

The health plan covered less than 20 percent of Doug's costs, even though the couple had paid for a special chemotherapy rider.

Though similar legislation has been proposed in past sessions and passed by the House of Representatives, the bill was approved for the first time in the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions...

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