By Irene Kuriakose
The Charlotte Observer, Letters, April 6, 2020
Heartfelt thanks to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina for waiving out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 care (April 2).
Will other insurers follow suit or will more insured people in North Carolinians go bankrupt because of medical bills?
Will insurers raise premiums 40% next year to cover these losses? And how will we pay for COVID-related illness for several hundred thousand working poor who are denied Medicaid because of Republican’s short-sighted resistance to expanding it here?
It’s time we wake up and realize how inadequate and cruel our free-market health care system is. Medicare for All can’t keep viruses out, but it certainly can improve our response to them.