Crushed with Cancer & No Insurance

In West Palm Beach, Florida, Leslie Elder's eyelids fluttered open, and through the fog of pain medication, saw the emergency room doctors pull back the curtain in her room. She could tell that the news was bad. They told her she had a tumor in both her left and right kidneys.The words "You have a tumor" were not new to Elder however; her grim financial situation was.Elder had cancer twice before in 1988, when doctors found a tumor in her right breast, and again in 2001, when doctors found one in her left breast; except back then she was insured. By the time she learned that she had kidney cancer in September 2005, she was uninsured.Elder and her husband, Jim, say their health insurance carrier, Nationwide Insurance, forced them into an impossible situation by raising the rates on their policy over several years. Eventually, they were forced to cancel. To learn more about this story click the link provided below:http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/13/cancer.insurance.finances/index.html