Senators want law changed to protect patients
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Two Democratic senators plan to announce legislation tomorrow that would make it illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to someone by dropping entire lines of insurance.
The lawmakers cite the case of Ian Pearl, a 37-year-old with muscular dystrophy, whose around-the-clock nursing care costs more than $1 million a year. Rather than drop the family’s policy, which would be illegal under state law because Pearl needed care, the insurance company canceled the entire class of insurance policies in the state, according to the senators.
Their bill, named Ian’s Law, would require insurance companies to get permission from the state Insurance Department before canceling a class of insurance policies. It is being sponsored by Sens. Neil Breslin, D-Albany, and Eric Schneiderman, D-Manhattan.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
what is wrong is that 24 hr nursing care cast $1,000,000.00 a year….do the math, that’s $19,230.76 per week.