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> Can you be denied treatments if the insurer won't pay and you can't afford it? Yes, or you get treated but go broke. Medical bankruptcy is very common in the
by acdha 3y ago
> Can you be denied treatments if the insurer won't pay and you can't afford it?
Yes, or you get treated but go broke. Medical bankruptcy is very common in the United States but unheard of almost anywhere else, despite those countries having better health outcomes. At some point paying three times as much on average is going to swamp everything else.
There’s been tons written about this over the years but some recent articles I read:
https://www.propublica.org/article/priority-health-michigan-cart-insurance-vanpatten-denials https://www.propublica.org/article/priority-health-michigan-...
https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-proton-therapy-cancer-lawyer-denial https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-proton-therapy...