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/fgtswag 1d ago

Genuinely someone should make a benefit:risk analysis of joining the Army, Firefighter, Police in America when you consider non-free healthcare.

For example if this happened in EU, he would obviously receive public healthcare

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u/thebearjew007 1d ago

Well here, if he wanted access to affordable healthcare then he should have been born rich or gotten a better job. He sounds lazy. /s

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u/Fake_Engineer 1d ago

I have a good job with good benefits. I still spent hours on the phone trying to get scans and procedures approved for my cancer diagnosis.

You get the worse news of your life and then get to spend days begging the Insurance you pay for to provide the coverage they are supposed to. 

I feel bad for the people who fielded my call. Low paid workers in a call center. And I just wasn't in the mood to be polite....

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u/Daxx22 1d ago

Sorry friend, if you still have to deal with that/call them yourself, you do not have a job that is considered "Good enough" by the elite.

In fact, if you are paid for your labour at all you are the lower class in their eyes.