Crown says cancer patients denied treatment

Some cancer patients with private health insurance were being denied treatment they assumed they were covered for, Prof John Crown (Ind) claimed. He said there was “uneven access’’ to treatment, depending on the insurance company. People paid a premium all their lives in the expectation of legally approved treatment available in the public system. “Their doctors, after a process of appeal to the company fails, have to discharge them from the private system and bring them to the public system where the treatment is given at taxpayers’ expense,’’ Prof Crown added. (Times) >