Does anyone know if my blue cross/blue sheild ins. covers my husband while he is in.The ins. co told me they would pay what the state doesn't.I think they are wrong.The state might pay what they don't but I,m not sure.Can any one help on this??

ok....BC/BS Will pay, but it is a huge fight..My friend was hurt at the cattle ranch a couple years ago, and his BC/BS was still activite...i filled it for him a dozen times and they finally paid it...the STATE DID NOT PAY A PENNY....DJ

Thanks Denise! That was helpful. Iwas afraid they would give me a hard time.They want allow me to drop it because they said he was covered.I could use the extra cash right now but I also want him to have healthcare when or if he needs it. I pray he never needs it!!

i was told by several women on this board that private insurance enver pays for an inmates medical care. now i wonder if they were wrong. they said if i put my man on my insurance the DOC will not accept my insruance.

I think I need to have a long talk with bc/bs.I don't want to pay for something I can't use.They want drop it because they don't want to lose the money.My lawyer did tell me to get it in writing.

I would think that the DOC would be happy for a 3rd party insurance company to pay the medical bills for a prisoner. I can assure you one thing. If you see a freeworld doctor, a choice that inmates on work release has, the prison will check to see if the inmate has the money in his account on the prison books before they will even take him to the doctors office. I am sure that if the doctor accepts whatever insurance company he has, then he would just have to show his card and pay the co-pay. I was watching a 60 minutes once a few years back and they were doing a story on this guy in a California prison who had to have a liver transplant. The public was complaining that the cost of the transplant and having to pay for it, some $750,000. The usual arguement came up that a prisoner did not deserve to be on the transplant waiting list. The prison spokesman pointed out to Mike Wallace, the reporter for 60 minutes, that a prisoner has one certain guaranteed right, that a man on the street doesn't have. The right to free health care. When Mike Wallace pointed out that another state, I think it was Virginia, had a similiar case and was refusing to pay for their prisoner's transplant, the prison spokesman just said, "Well unlike the state of California, that state has not been SUED SUCCESSFULLY, yet. California had refused to pay for a transplant in the past and the inmate died and his family won a muti-million dollar settlement based on "DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE" So you see, it looks to me like the DOC would be very happy if an inamte has private health insurance. I can just hear these Republicans now if an Alabama inmate needed some sort of transplant, and they thought they were going to have to pay for it. I'd be willing to bet that inmate would be granted a special parole hearing and he would be out the front gate within a week of his diagnosis. Anyone else share that thought???

Jeff

My ex-husband was in a state prison in Florida and when his cancer came back they released him on a special parole. That shows you that they didn't want to pay for his medical care.