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Date Posted: 06:11:37 07/25/09 Sat
Author: Paul Davis
Subject: Re: Insurance gimmicks to deny treatment.
In reply to: Shirley 's message, "Insurance gimmicks to deny treatment." on 19:31:25 07/23/09 Thu

Well, yeah, but the thing is, if they deny long enough, some of these people will die and no longer require treatment. It's better for the bottom line.

And people are all wondering why the kids who grew up watching their parents and their friends parents struggle with this mess are voting for the government running things.

Guess why?


>It's called demand a second opinion but no choice in
>who you're going to see. Then deny treatment,
>especially if it's expensive.
>
>My nephew's wife had an emergency appendectomy four
>months ago at Vanderbilt University Hospital. In the
>process, cancer cells were found through a biopsy. The
>oncologist thought they had removed them but when she
>went back for her three month checkup, there were
>additional. Doctors wanted to do a chmo bath and
>surgery. The insurance company demanded a second
>opinion. They got it. Again it was denied. The person
>who deid treatment isn't even a doctor nor a member of
>the medical profession. They've just received their
>second denial and have appealed to the VA insurance
>commission. Meanwhille, who knows what's happening?
>
>Our son was injured at work two weeks ago and was
>taken to Porter Memorial Hospital. They found one
>clean break in his foot and put a moldable cast on it.
>Feeling as though there was more to it than that, he
>went to our local hospital ER. They did c-scans and
>found two clean breaks, three fractures and multiple
>bone chips. His big toe is out of the socket and will
>require surgical setting. Enter the workmans' comp
>insurance company and they're demaning a second
>opinion--only problem is that he's already had two
>with orthopedic surgeons--one at the hospital and one
>Monday. We fear the same thing is going to happen with
>him. Meanwhile, he's gone two weeks without bones
>being aligned or set. So now he has two hospital bills
>(covered by WC and ttwo specialists and a third one
>coming). How wasterful is that?

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