Insured but Not Covered

September 18, 2007

What’s worse—being diagnosed with cancer or discovering that your health insurance won’t go the distance in covering your treatment? These days, with earlier detection and better therapies, cancer isn’t the death sentence it once often was. But treating it is expensive, and employers and health plans are increasingly placing caps on the maximum benefits they will pay, as well as other restrictions on coverage that hit cancer patients particularly hard. If the tumor doesn’t kill you, it seems, the medical bills just might. (US News and World Report)