Death of Esteemed CS Researcher Likely a Result of Health Insurance Malignance(torontosun.com)

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Death of Esteemed CS Researcher Likely a Result of Health Insurance Malignance

http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/michele_mandel/2010/01/14/12471531.html

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None of his friends wanted to speak about his personal life, but at least one confidant, angry at some callous comments on a tabloid website, aimed to set the record straight: “The financial pressures on this couple were severe: They had already used up all insurance benefit limits, and burnt through their own personal savings with their retirement savings following rapidly,” a source posted on the New York Daily News website.

“We should put the blame for Sam’s death where it belongs. We have the technology to keep little girls like that alive. We have a society that pretty much insists upon doing so. But we put the financial and organizational and emotional burden entirely on the parents.”