WELP.

makes sense it would be there.

That poor man. My heart breaks for him. I hope he gets the healthcare that he needs so desperately and is entitled to. The callousness of these insurance execs just makes me absolutely sick. They care about nobody and nothing but the bottom line and their own bank accounts. I wish them all a long, painful, drawn out death that depletes all their resources before they finally succumb to a horrible illness.

but millions like him.

Deal with it, assholes.









(the assholes, just to be clear, is EVERY Person who either votes FOR a republican or does NOT vote or votes 3rd party)

My brother is totally disabled and 100% oxygen dependent. Healthnet repeatedly denied his oxygen concentrator, equipment that he's been using for years, and he had to spend several months fighting not their medical staff, but claims processing clerks. They finally agreed to continue paying for the life saving equipment ordered by his own doc, and he switched to Kaiser. No problems since.

The only obligation any given insurance company has is to their stockholders. Period.

They wear people down, and they kill people.

That's not hyperbole...they actually kill people through the denial of care.

And most of them now call themselves "health companies".

I got a call from my company the other day. He said they wanted to assign me to my own personal care nurse from the company to help me improve my health. I told him I had plenty of doctors. He said they would work with my doctor. I asked him what possible non-financial and altruistic incentive the company would have in assigning me one of their nurses. He started stumbling. I told him to fuck off and to never call me again about shit like this.

try and guilt trip you into not seeing your doctors as much.

Two people I know died of ALS recently. It's a terrible illness. He deserves what he's asked for, it's so little. Thank you, good sir, for your courage.

before the Senate vote recently?

I had Healthnet and they dropped me from Covered CA/ACA since it wouldn't accept subsidies and I had to get Blue Shield which was twice as much.

One reason for low income and stagnant wages is due to insur companies ripping off employers as much as self insured citizens are being ripped off.

Ady Barkan is a progressive activist who has been fighting for all of us for years. It is tragic that his life will be so short due to his terrible illness.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a42a7dde4b025f99e187b5b/amp

My grandfather died of ALS in his 50s when I was young. It was really thought on my mom and grandmom to see him suffer. They were both in the medical field and knew what to expect yet could do nothing to really help him. It was long, slow torture for him and them too. I am leaving money to ALS research in my trust.

What could go wrong?

the courage and fight he has. This kind of avarice and cruelty in the US health ins. system must change.

As of Jan 1 they are the insurance provider for TRICARE West - half the the United States - replacing United HealthCare.

Not encouraging to see this.

I had then for a short time one year long time ago, had a hard time getting anything approved.

One of my jobs used them for employee insurance.. They were pissy about even routine care appts.

over and over is really hateful.

A totally dead soul. It is amazing.

He was so patronizing!

Any improvements in condition will save money over the long run. Eventually, he will require total nursing care unless the doctors can stave off his decline.

Damn these republicans who treat people this way.

They want them to die faster which is where the cost savings comes in.

He will really save them a bundle when he dies..

My daughter had an ALS patient that was also turned down for a new med. He cried, it broke her heart. He told her it was his last hope to hang on a while longer. She found him about 2 weeks later unresponsive and that was it. About a year past diagnosis.

who was bedridden, unable to vocalize and no use of his arms. He could move his eyes and grunt while we used a letterboardl.

I know they want to kill off anyone not able to increase GDP, ROI, or slave away in their factories. My comments were more short term as far as expenses are concerned, but they won't be able to implement their Final Resolution immediately without drawing more suspicion. The have to still change what is "normal" first.

Forgive me if I sounded snarky, it was frustration at not being able to force the insurance companies to do what keeps people alive. They are content with just keeping people quiet till they die.

Therapy for children with developmental delays. So the company writes a rider to pay limited amout of therapy. Great! But when the claims are processed, they get kicked back 100% of the time because no one reads the riders.

So, I get on the phone and fight, fight, fight.

HealthNet execs - now i just got to say it is no wonder they don't pay for care, too much capital going to multi multi multi million dollar salaries for execs. And according to their whiteboard, they support a party that doesn't support the most minimum of minimum wage laws.