Wouldn't Crystal Lee Sutton, who died at 68 for lack of treatment for brain cancer, have been on Medicare?
Sutton was the inspiration for the movie Norma Rae. All the stories about Sutton's death talk about her insurance company denying her treatment for her cancer. Which insurance company was this? And wouldn't she have been eligible for Medicare several years before her death? The Medicare enrollment age is currently 65, yes?
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Maybe she didn't work 40 quarters and wasn't eligible?
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Lee_Sutton In part: The Raw Story noted that Crystal Lee Sutton had died, aged 68, at Hospice House, a hospice in Burlington, North Carolina, on Friday, September 11, 2009, from meningioma, a form of brain cancer that she had been diagnosed as having for several years. She had been struggling with her health insurance company, which had delayed her treatment. Note - I could not find a mention of the insurance company's name.
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My grandmother spent the last ten years of her life in a rest home. The foreman of the ranch she and my grandfather had worked for 50 years before that graciously maintained a few head of cattle on the part of the ranch she still owned, just to give her enough income to pay the rest home bill. So, as a result, she was a business owner and continued to pay into Medicare through her taxes even while she lived in the rest home. She paid into Medicare from the time it was created until her death in 1999. Well, Bob got old himself, and was unable to maintain his own ranch along with the few head he was running on hers, so he understandably stopped. She outlived her money and was about to be literally kicked out of the rest home for non-payment. Her insurance company wouldn't cover it because it was a "pre-existing condition." My mom went down to sign her up for Medicare, but found out she was ineligible to receive it BECAUSE SHE OWNED MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS' WORTH OF PROPERTY. She paid into it all her life and then she couldn't even reap the benefits of it. No. They gave it to a bunch of people who didn't do sh!t for it instead. My mom looked into us buying the ranch from her so she wouldn't own the property. We didn't have the money. If she had gifted it to us, we would have had to pay the income tax on it. We didn't have it. What did they want her to do, an 89-year-old woman? Get out of bed, get on a horse and start rounding up cattle? They ripped her off for 50 years. SCREW MEDICARE.
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