'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients

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Summary

Health insurance companies are increasingly denying cancer treatments and screenings recommended by physicians, leading to delays and potential harm for patients.

These denials, often based on internal rules lacking transparency, can result in serious adverse events, disease progression, and even death.

While prior authorization is intended to save money, physicians argue that the current system is inefficient and detrimental to patient care.

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'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients

www.nbcnews.com /news/investigations/-lived-health-insurance-companies-deny-cancer-care-patients-rcna182611

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Even prompting enough attention for this single investigation would make what Luigi did justified. Rot in piss, Brian.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Pike’s health insurer through his employer, had declined to cover the roughly $40,000 treatment.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois is a nonprofit, so it turns out nonprofits deny care too.
- There's no such thing as "nonprofit" insurance in a for-profit healthcare system. If they aren't making money for themselves, they've been created to make money for everyone else.
  
  The difference between a for profit and a non profit is just in the way they do accounting for where the money goes.
  
  The hospital in this story, MD Anderson, is also a nonprofit. In fact it's part of the University of Texas, a state-run school. So nobody profited from what happened here.
  And in general, insurance companies have an antagonistic relationship with health care providers. Because when insurance companies deny care, health care providers lose money.
- oh yeah. been on blue cross most of my life. Its like you see with so many things now. Denial is standard to see if they can shake out anyone who won't go through the appeals process. The more expensive the more they fight the appeals and repeat the denials. If you fight and live long enough you might get the needed care.

Still struggling to adapt to life without her husband, Angela said: “I cannot help but go back to that month in Texas — what would have happened if he had had that surgery? Would he have lived?”
Well he sure as fuck didn't without it, and that's the problem.

What Luigi allegedly did was justified.
I will not mourn the death of the decision makers in healthcare that lead to these outcomes, nor the passing of the politicians that refuse to use the law to change this system.
I hope they all fucking die alone and removed from everything they've ever loved.
- Peaceful protest should be seen as the opening bid. When it's ignored or repressed, people escalate.
  The fact that almost nobody is upset over a CEO's assassination is terrifying to those in power. And that's why they're trying to fast-track a death-penalty case against him. If the momentum.of support for what he did continues, they won't be safe ever.

"But they can't go, and many would rather die"
"Then perhaps they should do so, and decrease the Surplus population"
Healthcare corporate fucksticks out here acting like Ebenezer Scrooge

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