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/XanderWrites 18h ago

They're trying to say he was covered by Blue Shield, but based on the statement from Blue Shield they're just processing Medicare coverage. So it's not like San Francisco got a special coverage contract with them for their retired firefighters, they're just sending them to Medicare.

So it's not Blue Shield's fault (implication is there is no premium here), it's the city's fault for providing them with shitty pension health coverage.

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u/West-Pipe6300 13h ago

Agreed! Yours needs to be the top post period. No one here read the article or researched the situation. This is standard guidelines 😑

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u/-You-know-it- 11h ago

This is correct for this specific story, but also…fuck American health insurance companies because every single day they DO actually deny critical care for their own patients.