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Originally Posted by Riot

What the MSNBC story updates show is the biggest ongoing negative of our "private" healthcare system - the most expensive in the world.

This person is covered by her Canadian insurance 100% for out of country problems, but only up to the point that the same services would cost in that country. As our healthcare is the most expensive in the world, even with the revised downward cost total (that's good news), our costs still leave thousands to be privately covered privately.

Thank goodness the fans have more than covered this.

And the typical "who will pay" fight among the insurance companies remain. Let's hope it comes out in favor of the family, and not the insurance companies.

Shows our healthcare costs do need to be addressed - why do our citizens pay much more than every other first world country for healthcare, and yet our quality is not even rated in the Top 25 internationally?

Glad to see that athletes do have national organizations that provide high-risk insurance to them. But obviously, the gap between the national org. not covering her as it wasn't a national org. approved event, sponsors of small events don't buy coverage for the athletes they invite - shines a spotlight on the athletes being left hanging.



Rather than our healthcare being too expensive, and our insurance companies being allowed not to pay what they contracted for?

The overall point is: it's terribly sad that, within our convoluted and expensive private healthcare system, the stories surrounding the unfortunate death of a promising young athlete during sport highlight, not her career, but the intracacies and complications of who can, and cannot, be free of deep concerns about paying for costly medical treatment in the event of sudden life-threatening trauma in America.

She was practicing, not an event. Training.