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slaacaa@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’

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Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’

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slaacaa@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Out-of-pocket costs would have been about $50,000.
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    Hey, it’s a me !

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    Time to let Luigi out for a couple of days I think.

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    Luigi 2 Luigi Harder

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    Nothing like the nypost comment section to get you out of your bubble. Can’t believe there’s so many insurance company defenders

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    Luigi death stare

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    This would be enough to “radicalize me”, but I don’t think it’s all that radical to be against a system that treats people this way.

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        It’s us against the Epstein class, really.

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    Someone call Luigi.

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    It’s like the trolley problem, except on one track is somebody’s beloved father and on the other is some executive’s 5th yacht.

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    Luigi, where are you?

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    Economics must be subservient to the needs of the society it exists within.

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    I’ll never understand how people were OK with putting middlemen with an interest in denying care between them and lifesaving treatment.

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      because apparently, the alternative is communism, and it will have death panels that will decide if you get to live in order to save costs…

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    Life is not medically necessary

    In fact its a massive risk factor.

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    I once went to the ed for butt disease related dehydration. The idiot PA manning the ed would not be gainsayed about my medical history that I was there for, not him. It could be possible that his 15 second glance through my 400 volume medical records may have missed some nuanced. But no, according to him I had the flu not the fatal butt disease…I meani get it out was in the middle of a flu outbreak and I was merely missing half of my butt and much of everything above it. My fatally afflicted by butt disease parts were just at the store buying cigarettes I couldn’t know what I’m talking about.

    A week later I get a letter from the medical group my insurance is through. "Jello my liege YMCA blah blah blah you went to the hospital when you only had the flu

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