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

This video shows the damage and harm inflicted on an autistic adult by Nationwide Insurance Company and the publicly taxpayer funded University Of South Florida/USF College of Medicine/and USF Physician's Group by their complete patient abandonment and refusal leading up to the abandonment to provide Title II Americans With Disabilities Act hearing-vision-autism accommodations and medical services Nationwide's uninsured motorist coverage is required to pay for over a year, causing a permanent deformity injury. This injury that occurred as a result of a January 05, 2008 motor vehicle accident, has significantly affected Equiis Savant's U.S. National Championship horse training career (see Autism Horses Of My Life at http://equiisautisticsavantartist.webs.com/ ), by limiting her ability to land over jumps properly with her foot in a stirrup due to the deformity and restricted flexion in her right foot to area. This disgrace exemplifies the rampant discrimination being waged against people with autism by our Nation's insurance companies and health care providers who do not want to serve people with autism, and cries out for why it is unacceptable for Obama's mandatory Health Care Plan for America not to cover autism and other health care needs of people with autism spectrum conditions !!!

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• University
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• South
• Florida
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[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.

[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 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?).

[Me112233]

@hensonfan101 What is up with the constant attack on the US healthcare system? Everyone gets medically necessary care, regardless of the ability to pay (true, not every doctor will see you if you can't pay, but some will, along with all hospitals). Sure, it is expensive, but it has been over 20 years since I've heard of someone dying that might possibly have been linked to being refused treatment because of an inability to pay the bill.

[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.

[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.

[hensonfan101]

Last year, I paid a total of $1458 for my medicare levy (about $28 per week) which gives me total health cover. This year, because my illness is preventing me from working and my social security payment is only about 1/4 of my wages when I was working, I will pay almost nothing. Compare that with the cost of total health cover in the US.

[hensonfan101]

I am a public patient with no private insurance. I was diagnosed with lung cancer in late July. Since then I have had a battery of scans and test at a cost of over $20k for which I have paid about $20 for car parking. The tests have revealed two more cancers in my hip and knee. I am scheduled to meet with my specialist team next week to lay out my treatment schedule, which should then begin the following week, none of which will cost me a cent (except parking fees for same day procedures).

[hensonfan101]

And runs a private health insurance company is competition with other private insurers. It also specifies that private insurers must maintain their cover indefinitely, regardless of cost as long as the premiums continue to be paid. The insurer cannot specify the doctor or hospital. That is the patient's choice alone, and any and all procedures ordered by a doctor must be covered.

[hensonfan101]

Americans need to force the US administration to provide a health car system similar to the Australian model. We have a mix of public and private health insurance. The public system is funded by a 1.5% tax levy on the taxable income of everyone who does not have private health insurance up to $70,000 p/a. Those without private insurance with an income above $70k pay an additional 1%. The government also sets a mandatory maximum charge for private health insurers,