Healthcare insurance companies are filthy maggots

[The Jungle 1]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/insurance/insurance-company-denies-mans-life-saving-surgery-for-7th-time/ar-AAXfB18?li=BBnb7Kz

[ColinC]

1. Since this is a procedure to keep them alive, don't they need to conduct it anyways?

And the pay issue comes after, right?

[IcyPeas]

2. Anthem wrote in their denial letter:

Anthem wrote in his denial letter that it denied the implant because it would not help lower blood pressure.

But Douglas does not have high blood pressure. His problem is a failing heart caused by the chemotherapy used to successfully battle leukemia.

Remember when Michael Moore went after health insurance companies?

[Mosby]

3. Why does the procedure cost a quarter mil?

Everyone is in this for the money.

That's the problem.

Eta - I bet this device costs 20 bucks to make. It's a simple pulse generator, running on a single chip. Their own press release says its a simple procedure:

The Barostim System is implanted in a simple and safe surgical procedure. The Carotid Sinus Lead is sutured to the carotid sinus after a simple mapping procedure.

The BarostimNEO generator is inserted in a standard device pocket. Procedures typically take less than an hour and are usually performed on an outpatient basis.

The system contains no hardware in the heart or vasculature.

OUTPATIENT PROCEDURE.


https://www.cvrx.com/healthcare-professionals/


my outpatient hernia surgery coat me about 300 dollars.

[The Jungle 1]

16. You can thank Nixon

He allowed the healthcare insurance companies and hospitals to operate for profit. Reagan doubled down with more deregulation. This is a complete failure and we need to lay the blame at the repuke door.
So keep the healthcare example in mind as the right tries to privatize SS, Medicare and Medicaid. The right is also working to destroy our public education system by making it a for profit industry.
These are active issues that we need to stop. The right continues to double down on making the rich richer.

[mn9driver]

4. This appears to cost about (euro)21000 in Europe and Canada

Less than 10 percent of the cost here in the US. What a surprise, said no one ever.

[Celerity]

10. Yep. Like I always say, the US for profit healthcare system is the biggest wealth extraction

and wealth transfer scheme on the planet.

[drmeow]

5. Your subject line

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is an insult to maggots - maggots actually have a purpose! Healthcare insurance companies are a smear of HIV, COVID, and Hepatitis C infected diarrhea!

[madinmaryland]

6. I think the word we are looking for is "MAGAt".

[Skittles]

9. I constantly point that out

maggots serve a real purpose.....I remember reading what life would be like without them and it was very ugly INDEED ;o

[The Jungle 1]

14. The name maggot will always create a disgusting wrenched image.

Which is why I use it. Images are important to communication.
It is a bug and has no feelings or cognitive thought process. The maggots are not offended. Maggots do not remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, or create. I agree they are a vital critter. A disgusting wrenched vital critter.
I think this is an important issue to think about. The right mocks us over our excessive political correctness. So where is the line?

[Skittles]

18. LOL

are you really pull the PC line? ALRIGHTY THEN.

over and OUT

[The Jungle 1]

19. Are you really calling me out for being mean to maggots

Right back at ya LOL

[Cuthbert Allgood]

7. But just mention national healthcare

and then it's just free ponies you want.

[The Jungle 1]

17. So why don't we talk about socialist corporate welfare?

The right refuses to have that discussion.

[CousinIT]

8. That's true. Ask Wendell Potter, author of 'Deadly Spin'

Which I highly recommend reading, bytheway.

They're sociopathic institutions that profit off of injury, illness and death. And they don't give a whisp of a damn.

[Demovictory9]

11. ..

[Xolodno]

12. You don't say?

My Cardiologist prescribed Eliquis...insurance wouldn't fill it. Then he changed it to Xarelto, again, wouldn't fill it. It was obvious they were trying to push me to Coumadin with every two weeks blood test. Which would be a major pain and interrupt life quite a bit (maybe that's what they want). I asked the pharmacy, how much out of pocket...ouch.

So the Mexican border is a three hour drive...got a three months supply for $300, half of what a one month supply costs here. Next time I saw my cardiologist, showed him the box and explained what I did. He chuckled and said, "well you keep doing that and I'll also supply you with an additional month of samples".

And yet people will scream red that we have the best healthcare system in the world.

[area51]

13. Yes.

And the states & fed have no interest in regulating them. jmo, we need to cut insurance cos. out of healthcare altogether with single-payer healthcare. Please see sig line for more information.

[ck4829]

15. They really are