Phyllis Dewitt has lost a great deal recently. She lost her husband to prostate cancer, and believes she lost her job as a result of his medical insurance expenses. Dewitt is currently locked in a high profile legal battle against Proctor Hospital with whom she had been employed and received health insurance for herself and her husband. While she and everyone involved knew that her husband stood little chance of winning the battle against his cancer, he was not willing to give up the fight. This resulted in soaring expenses for the hospital which provided his coverage. As a result, Dewitt was fired on the grounds of insubordination, despite a previously spotless record. She believes that the hospital let her go in order to relieve themselves of her husbands growng medical bills. What does this say about the nature of our health insurance system? How can something like this be allowed to happen? Or should the good of the many outweigh the good of the few?
I believe we would need to know a bit more about the termination due to insubordination.
I haven’t seen to many legal cases personally with insurance companies. It seems they happen all the time. With 7 years in the business, I’m yet to see something out of the oridnary.
It is too bad this lady isn’t able to mourn the loss of her husband but instead fighting a court battle. If she really was fired without just, it seems like she has a good chance to win this case.
If the insubordination was a result of her fighting for necessary benefits and procedures to save her husbands life it was one thing. If her fighting was for “unnecessary or highly ineffective” benefits and procedures as determined by sound medical practice then this would cloud the waters, as would the exact nature of the insubordination. Hopefully COBRA was an option for her and her husband.
If it truly happened the way it was presented in the article then there is concern in my part.
There are always 2 sides to the issue so I would need to hear more before I condemn the hospital.