Because our travesty & inhumane healthcare system is bankrupting families & killing patients. It’s gutting the middle class & working poor more than any other social woe.
I suspect that’s why it’s news. A woman risked her career to shove aside red tape on a timely disease that can kill or damage the heart quickly.
Hence: news.
Looks to me like the woman committed fraud. Not really news worthy in my opinion. I didn't read where the parents of the kid reason for not seeking medical care for him was because a lack of insurance.
The reason why you didn't read about the parents and medical attention is because you didn't read the article. If you had you would not have posted the above.
If you had read the article you would have read this:
According to court documents, Smitherman and her husband had been helping the student—
who lives with a relative and not his parents—since July, providing him with clothes and cleaning the house where he lived.
On January 9, the 15-year-old student missed school due to an illness and, upon finding out, Smitherman stopped by his guardian’s home to make sure he was okay.
“After making sure he had eaten, I could tell he had some of the symptoms of strep throat,” Smitherman told the
Herald. “As a parent, I know how serious this illness can be if left untreated, and I took him to an emergency clinic.”
However, because she was not the boy's guardian and he is under 18, the clinic would not assess him. Undeterred, she then took him to St. Vincent Immediate Care in Elwood and used her insurance to get him seen under her son’s name. She also procured some antibiotics for him from a pharmacy using this method.
The documents show that the student tore the prescription label off his medication because he knew it was bad to possess drugs meant for someone else.
“I knew he did not have insurance, and I wanted to do all I could to help him get well,” Smitherman said. “I know this action was wrong. In the moment, my only concern was for this child’s health.”
