Sick for Profit Says Insurance Companies Get Rich By Denying Care
Brave New Films’ video Sick for Profit opens with a clip of a woman, Jo Joshua Godfrey, who says Cigna cut off her coverage by telling her she had nothing wrong with her, when they knew — as she did not — that her scans showed she had lung cancer.
I would go to CIGNA and they would tell me I had bronchitis and give me medicine and send me home. Then the CIGNA Director called me up and she told me that there was nothing wrong with me at all. I called the doctor, and I came with my film and my CAT scan and he just put it in, it took exactly thirty seconds. He told me, ‘You have cancer,’ and he said the reason CIGNA did not want to give you your records is they’ve known right way back for years that you have cancer and they’re not going to treat you.” Jo Joshua Godfrey.
