The insured are sickened by healthcare bills

RE: "YOUNG adult health plans limit coverage" (Page A1, May 29): Our daughter bought her insurance through her master of social work program, naively assuming that a shoddy product would not be offered.

Now she is a new graduate with medical bills amounting to more than a third of her anticipated gross annual income, and that's for a job that has not even started yet. (And that's in addition to her huge student loans.)

Young adults do not need to be "seriously ill" under these health plans in order to incur serious debt. Our daughter was simply one of many in Boston to suffer from the norovirus that went around this past winter, requiring several emergency room visits for rehydration, followed by a workup for lactose intolerance.

It's outrageous for these policies to be sold, as our daughter's was to her, without someone pointing out that they only cover healthcare costs for the healthy.

NANCY BENT
Sherborn