Harm Caused Autistic By Nationwide Insur. + Univ. Of So. Fla

[MaryKDayPetrano]

No, that is absolutely false. If the American is an adult with Autism, we do not get any health care. Even if we have insurance coverage. I broke my finger and bone was sticking out. I was not provided any access to health care. I had to set my finger myself, with no doctor. I hope some of you suffer the same pain and suffering so it translate for you to *get it* and stop spreading false information about how Autistic people are treated in the United States. You have NO empathy or understanding

[KSitz77]

I don't get it. There is only so much that can be done and the general consensus is that each one afflicted with this deserves 24 hour 3:1 care.

[MaryKDayPetrano]

The most atrocious part, is forcing her autism doctor who was helping facilitate her communication and medical care -- as well as himself providing her excellent medical care -- to abandon her while she was still in need of medical care. He promised her long-term, lifetime care. This type of discirmination and abuse against people with autism is, sadly, quite typical and cries out for Obama to ensure mandatory protections for people with autism in his Health Care Plan for America.

[MaryKDayPetrano]

Perhaps if you would educate yourself about the significant communication issues people with autism have, you would appreciate how University of South Florida and Nationwide Insurance both violated this autistic person's right to receive medical care without unlawful discrimination or predatory action against her autism vulnerabilities.

[janicelawre]

I feel for the person in this video, but how is this proof of anything? The person has an injured foot and ankle - and? How did Nationwide Insurance cause it? What role did University of South Florida have in the injury? I'm not saying it isn't so, just that the video doesn't illustrate anything other than there is individual with an injury.

[MaryKDayPetrano]

The caption clearly states University of South Florida committed an abrupt patient abandonment on the autistic patient, leaving a vulnerable autistic person without any medical care. Her autism doctor was facilicating all communication for her to access all of her doctors there.

[Me112233]

@MaryKDayPetrano But what you don't indicate is WHY the hospital "abandoned" the patient. Was it because she is autistic? Or rather, was it for some other reason, and you are using the autism as a bully pulpit. Every person in the hospital, from the CEO to the doctor to the nurse to the janitor gets a paycheck, which directly or indirectly comes from the patients. Requiring hospital personnel to work for "free" is the equivalent of slavery (and you aren't in favor of slavery are you?).

[MaryKDayPetrano]

USF forged my patient informed consent, medical malpracticed, and abandoned me with severe motor vehicle accident injuries and aggravations of underlying medical conditions. They had $100,000 UM policy to cover their medical bills, but refused to bill the UM carrier. As a result, several of my injuries are now permanent. I believe you are Autism bashing because you are associated with USF and/or Nationwide & retaliating for my filing a pending ADA lawsuit - I plan to subpoena your ID.

[MaryKDayPetrano]

The University disobeyed their own USF Policy No. 1-108 & Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act by refusing autism accommodations, and when she objected and filed a US Dept. of Justice discirmination complaint, they forced her autism doctor and all her others doctors to commit a patient abandment in retaliation -- her autism doctor called them "despots" in writing before being forced to dump her. She has asked her autism doctor to rectify this and reinstate her.

[MaryKDayPetrano]

Nationeide Insurance claims representative Charles Law refused to accomodate the person's autism and used that as an excuse to refuse to pay the $100,000 available uninsured motorist coverage for over 1 1/2 years for the surgery recommended for the autistic's foot found causal by her doctors to her auto accident -- refusing due to her autism to pay for her medical care because she is vulnerable and they can prey on her because she is autistic.

[Me112233]

@MaryKDayPetrano According to the info I can find, this woman was injured in an auto accident; the ONLY thing the auto insurance company (Nationwide in this case) is responsible for are her injuries suffered in the auto accident (foot, ankle). With certainty, the autism was NOT caused by the automobile accident, and Nationwide is not resopnsible to pay any portion of her bills related to autism. What you apparently promoting is that the woman should get full-fledged major-medical coverage.

[MaryKDayPetrano]

Pls. provide your Florida Bar number, since you are giving wrong legal advice about Florida law. State Farm found my seat restraint broke, and several doctors documented brain injury aggravating my Autism. These are all covered under Nationwide's UM policy. I believe you are Autism bashing and doing so because you are associated with University of South Florida and/or Nationwide & retaliating for my filing a pending ADA lawsuit - I plan to subpoena your ID.

[MaryKDayPetrano]

When a person's seat restraint breaks in a rear-end motor vehicle accident and throws the person into the interior of the vehicle, multiple severe injuries can occur as were documented by a number of doctors and diagnostics assessments, including X-rays, CT scans, and five brain scans. Again, I believe you are a defendant in my lawsuit, and I will request the Court hearing the case to deal with you accordingly. 

[divinacomedias]

my, oh my... the madness of allowing the privatization of healthcare into a "free" laissez-faire market system.

It seems so basic...