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- From: ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen)
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- Subject: APHA Denounces High Court's Refusal to Review Health Insurance Denial Case
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 23:02:01 GMT
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- Here is a press release from the American Public Health Association.
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- APHA Denounces High Court's Refusal to Review Health Insurance
- Denial Case
- To: National Desk, Health Care Writer
- Contact: American Public Health Association 120th Annual Meeting
- Press Office, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, 202-387-3401
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- WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- The American Public Health Association
- (APHA) today denounced the Supreme Court's refusal to review a
- lower court allowing H & H Music to cut off health insurance
- benefits to an employee with AIDS.
- Calling the lower court ruling blatant discrimination against one
- kind of disease, APHA urged the court to hear another case and
- reverse these benefit denial decisions.
- "The court's decision demonstrates the failure of the private
- insurance system," said APHA President Joyce Lashof, addressing a
- Capitol Hill rally. "In light of these benefit denial decisions, no
- American can feel secure that private insurance will be there to
- protect against a catastrophic illness. This decision shows why we
- need a comprehensive national health system."
- Pointing out that H & H Music decision is based on a particular
- type of disability, the association urged that the issue be
- reexamined in light of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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