Video: The impacts of an abusive health care system RAW STORY

Published: Sunday July 6, 2008





Print This Email This Kathy Hund's son Milo has autism. To pay for mounting health costs and insurance premiums, she and her family sold their car, cashed in their 401k and retirement funds, sold their furniture and eventually were forced to declare bankruptcy in order to save their house. Mere months later, Hund and family were forced to sell their home and move into a rental property. Yet in spite of these sacrifices, she still has immense difficulty procuring proper treatment for 6-year-old Milo. "I think its a big scam," says Hund in a video report by the Associated Press. "I think that the pharmaceutical companies are just the biggest ripoff, and they should be ashamed of themselves. I think that insurance companies are just screwing people left and right ..." "I think the whole medical field needs to be shaken out and re-done, I really do. I don't have the answer on how to do that. I'm hoping that when a new president comes in, he will really help with all that. And I'm scared, if we don't get a new president in, if we get the same old president in, I'm really scared for this country." Watch the rest: