Missouri woman living with breast cancer asks lawmakers to pass Cancer Patients’ Bill of Rights:
She approached Democratic St. Louis Sen. Angela Mosley about writing a Cancer Patients’ Bill of Rights. This bill would ensure patients have the right to clear explanations in their language, shorter waits for test results and appointments with specialists, access to clinical trials at request, and much more. Insurance companies would be expected to bear any costs associated with this bill.
Our financially and probably otherwise illiterate legislators continue to layer up mandates on insurance companies and then slag on them when insurance prices go up. And then they mandate purchasing insurance coverage.
Republicans are not immune to these feel-good, hide-the-cost bills. One of my current senators made it mandatory that my health care coverage pay for autism treatments that I’ll never use.
