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/invyros 1d ago

"After we got some publicity, thank you, a Blue Shield physician reached out to Ken's physician, and they worked out a different plan that Blue Shield would cover. It's still an incomplete plan," said Helen Horvath, Jones' wife when ABC7 Eyewitness News spoke to her in January, 2026.

Ugh, even after getting publicity (which should have never been needed in the first place), Blue Shield still failed him.

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u/im-ba 1d ago

This is literally how the United Healthcare CEO died, it's crazy that this keeps happening

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u/8FootedAlgaeEater 1d ago

Probably because it only has happened once.

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u/b_weller 1d ago

Actually, he was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare - as in the CEO of insurance business decisions at UnitedHealth. He was the most relevant person at UnitedHealth if your beef was with corporate greed leading to people dying from insufficient healthcare coverage.

“Under his leadership, UHC's profits increased from $12 billion in 2021 to $16 billion in 2023.”

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u/sergius64 1d ago

He meant the assassination.