Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment
Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment
Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied payment for the proton therapy Robert “Skeeter” Salim’s doctor ordered to fight his throat cancer. But he was no ordinary patient. He was a celebrated litigator. And he was ready to fight.
$120k to show US health insurance literally kills people for profit and it won't actually change a damn thing how they do business.
40B-b-but who will pay for it if we have a single payer public healthcare?!?!?!
Meanwhile it costs more money to prop up these private “insurance” scammers than it would to fund Medicare for all. The only goddamn country out of all others of similar standing just somehow can’t figure it out!
And who fights this shit? Republicans. Who wastes the most money, racking up trillions and trillions of extra debt to throw on the pile? Republicans.
They are the part of fiscal responsibility for billionaires. The rest of you literally can fucking die and they will smile. More money and resources for them.
23The death panels were already here.
12It's all about protecting the profits of the corporation, so, it's more like a death board of directors.
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Salim is expecting the full $95,862.95 he paid. However, court records show that Blue Cross has said it only needs to pay Salim the discounted rate it had negotiated with MD Anderson at the time of his radiation treatment: $35,170.47. That’s what Blue Cross would have paid if its doctors had said yes in the first place.
Fucking scumbags.
40They should have to pay him 3 times what he paid not 1/3. It's their fault they didn't get that discount. They had a chance and passed.
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Now, imagining this happening to someone that isn't a top trial lawyer.
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Good read, horrifying story.
12I love ProPublica. They’ve been killing it this year.
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