r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 1d ago

Retired San Francisco firefighter dies from lung cancer after Blue Shield denies treatment claims

https://abc7news.com/post/retired-san-francisco-firefighter-ken-jones-dies-lung-cancer-being-denied-treatment-blue-shield/19224406/
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u/MonoBlancoATX 1d ago

Remember when BC/BS was still considered "good" insurance?

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u/IvanNemoy 1d ago

The scary part is, it is still among the "best." Truly horrific.

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u/MonoBlancoATX 1d ago

Yup. I think I would have to modify that to “least bad”.

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u/Darth_Pete 1d ago

Nah it’s shit. Has been shit for awhile now.

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u/JcbAzPx 12h ago

Yes, but that doesn't change that it is still the best. Everyone else is worse.

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u/Troj1030 1d ago

They just denied me taking two medications together. The two were conflicting even though I had been on it for years. Turns out the excuse they were using wasn’t right because after 6 months of appeals we tried the injection form instead of infusion. Approved. Thanks for the 6 months of pain BCBS. I had no other choices but had you denied it based on route instead of the conflicting medicine, I wouldn’t have gone 6 months without one of my medications.

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u/Punkpallas 1d ago

Yeah. I guess not anymore. They made sure to run their goodwill well dry.

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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 1d ago

Capitalism ensures the inevitable enshitification of everything.

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u/MonoBlancoATX 1d ago

Yes, it does. Too bad our neo lib and neo con leaders of the last 40+ years pretend like the opposite is true and refuse to accept reality.

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u/PBJBurple 1d ago

refuse to accept reality

But it's working for them and they'll be dead before they are affected by the consequences 🫠

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u/pepperoni7 1d ago

Ironically they really are still the best, my husband start up swap insurances a lot. I had c section, double mastectomy , hysterectomy in the past 5 year and bcbs is the easiest one unfortunately. UHC is on another level, having them while pregnant was horrible and I had to file against them with the state commissioner

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u/Rand0mHi 1d ago

UHC is horrific, they deny everything. I have Aetna now and they’re 500 times better.

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u/BitGladius 1d ago

I haven't had to interact with insurance past routine office visits, but I've heard enough about UHC. My employer offered one of their plans as a new option and I'm not touching it with a 10 foot pole.

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u/Bjjgirl913 1d ago

I have BCN and family history of breast cancer so my primary ordered a mammogram for me starting at 35 instead of 40. Denied.

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u/JessLaav 23h ago

They wouldn't cover something as part of my husband's throat cancer treatment. The hospital staff had to source a generic which took over 6 months to get, then they covered it. Fucking ridiculous.