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To: Sully- who wrote (7512)	5/8/2002 5:20:18 PM
From: Venkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13815

It's nice to see you post again...qcom did the wild thang...short bbq....where is SiG ?

To: Sully- who wrote (7512)	5/9/2002 1:42:55 AM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 13815

I have been following that technology very close for two reasons. 1) The develop of the Bionic Retina (it's cool that they are solar powered) is happening just east of me in the next town over. 2) I have been working to have the Illinois Insurance Statutes changed to include coverage for both currently FDA approved Cochlear Implants and future FDA approved Retina Implants. My insurance carrier tried to deny coverage for my CI on the twisted grounds that Cochlear Implants aid hearing therefore since hearing aids are not cover, nor should Cochlear Implants be. How can a CI aid hearing when there is no hearing? I shot back with the following also. "Are you going to deny the gift of sight to your holders by telling them that Retina Implants are like glasses too?" All I got back was silence. Of course blindness is whole lot more emotional then deafness. Nonetheless, Insurance company should not be able to weasel out of coverage by using flawed logic. Insurance companies will do anything possible to not cover something, unless they forced into. They are not in the biz. to cover people, they are in biz. to make money. Off soap box for now. B