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Disability Rights Advocate Dies After Insurance Co. Denied Her Necessary Meds
- deogeo 8y agoI don't understand. I thought the great benefit of privatized healthcare was that it was not rationed - yet she was denied medication? How perplexing. /s
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- karmajunkie 8y agoI know this was tongue in cheek, but the truth is that all healthcare is rationed. It's just that in a capitalism-obsessed culture the mainstream belief is that rationing on economic lives is somehow better than doing so based on efficacy.
- pwthornton 8y agoTo top this all off, "United Healthcare’s attempt to save $2,000 cost over $1 million in health care costs over the past year." To save a small amount of money, they ended up spending way more money and killing the patient.
- elliekelly 8y agoI wonder if having both private health insurance and medicare actually worked to her detriment here. Both assuming the other would pick up the tab for the expensive antibiotic but then neither did.
- LorenPechtel 8y agoAnd under UHC the doctor wouldn't have even suggested the expensive drug.