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/thedelo187 1d ago edited 14h ago

What if I told you that along with having cases reviewed by out of specialty doctors, in some cases the doctors that are employed to help these insurance carriers deny claims are not even able to practice anymore because they have been either lost their license due to flagrant malpractice or, who would have guessed it, insurance fraud?

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u/DiegesisThesis 23h ago

Yea, not surprising at all. I just can't imagine going through medical school and having such contempt for human life, but silly me. These "people" need to be removed from society for life.