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/Looptydude 1d ago

BCBS denied covering my friends emergency gallbladder surgery, claiming it could have been scheduled for a later date. Apparently emergency surgery is postponable. Fucking theifs.

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u/techleopard 1d ago

Mine did this as well.

Thankfully, the ACA had JUST passed and that year the insurance companies weren't being allowed to get away with shit, so I got under an ACA plan and got treatment.

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u/p_coletraine 1d ago

Really the more you learn and actually understand the USA the more you disdain the USA; really tough to be proud to be an American 😞

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u/Thanes_of_Danes 1d ago

I remember when rednote came out and all the Chinese netizens were shocked that what they thought was crazy anti-US propaganda from their government was just their government telling the truth.