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Y’all! #UHC called a surgeon OUT OF THE OR, to ask if the patient she was doing surgery on really needed to stay overnight. What the actual fuck? What is it going to take to bring insurance companies into line? Cause I’m starting to think guillotines may be too good for them.

#healthcare #unitedheathcare #denydelaydepose #eattherich

dailydot.com/news/unitedhealth

The Daily Dot · 'Do you understand she's asleep right now and she has breast cancer?': UnitedHealthcare interrupts surgery to ask if patient really needs to stay overnight. It gets worse"Insurance just keeps getting worse."

Went through 4.5 hours of Deposition for a rear end collision where I now have two herniated diks as a result of the other driver hitting me while I was stopped at a stop light. Mercury Insurance's council reserved their right to additional deposition time. The accident was almost 4 years ago.
Currently in the Delay/Depose portion of Deny Delay Depose Defend cycle.
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#UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With #Autism

Reporting Highlights

Secret Playbook: Leaked documents show that UnitedHealth is aggressively targeting the treatment of thousands of children with autism across the country in an effort to cut costs.

Critical Therapy: Applied behavior analysis has been shown to help kids with autism; many are covered by Medicaid, federal insurance for poor and vulnerable patients.

Legal Questions: Advocates told ProPublica the insurer’s strategy may be violating federal law.

#UHC are fucking monsters, and if I had the power to strip the wealth from them and give it to these families, I would do it without question.

#Propublica is the best news org speaking truth to power. If you’ve got some spare change, consider supporting them.

propublica.org/article/unitedh

ProPublicaUnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With AutismLeaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.

95% of the problems of the US health care system would be easily solved by adopting a sensible modern system like they have in Spain (and several dozen other countries). So focusing on the 5% of things that won't be solved is fundamentally misleading.

No one can see the forest because they're all obsessing over one particularly ugly tree.