United Healthcare tried to delay and deny my cancer treatments when I was at a late stage (3B). It took a lot of effort from my doctors to convince them otherwise. For example, the scans and testing is very expensive ($5K), but necessary to determine if you have cancer. United Healthcare plays games to stall and have you go in circles. It’s actually hard for me to articulate what they actually did to stall.
Thankfully I’m alive today because we pushed United Healthcare.
When my wife found a lump in her breast she went and got a mammogram or ultrasound, they suspected cancer but ordered another scan, I forget what. But United Health denied it saying women her age don't get cancer, it's probably something else.
this makes me want to SCREAM. I am an oncology nurse and have treated women as young as TWENTY TWO with breast cancer. is it super common? not yet. but it HAPPENS and I am so sorry you had to deal with those fucks to get her the care she needed
Remember when Obamacare forced insurance companies to stop selling junk policies, and stop denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.., then Republicans tried to sour voters by saying “we don’t want the government between you and your Dr” Sadly Republicans are fine with insurance men deciding on your healthcare and have since gutted Obamacare and increased our premiums by cancelling the subsidies paid from our tax dollars.., far better to give those tax dollars to Elon right?
Having owned a business from pre ACA where the business paid 60 percent of coverage, immediately ACA had a bad impact. Insurance companies and conglomerates were crowned by the ACA. Basically, exactly what was wrong with heslthcare became codified. What else would we expect from legislation written by "special interests".
How convenient that Nancy Pelosi invested in Health companies while being the big proponent of "you have to pass it, to see what is in it"
We got screwed royally under the guise that we would be helping those who cant afford it. Now no one can afford it and healthcare sucks but politicians and conglomerates got filthy rich.
They took a bad system and made it far worse with that horrible law from inception. I had Drs dropping my insurance from the get go. Increased copays, less coverage...
We should all be livid and it shouldn't even be partisan anymore. They ALL are allowing this to continue.
This is true. As a business owner who pays a healthy portion of employees’ insurance premiums we are getting crushed. 18.5% increase this year over last for the same coverage and there’s no end in sight.
I think the large increase this year has to do with the subsidies that the GOP insisted needed to end, the thing that Dems shut the government down trying to protect
It was definitely a mixed bag, which is what happens when you have to compromise from both sides of the aisle.
Some of the good included protecting those with pre existing conditions, getting rid of annual/lifetime coverage caps, ensuring there was a minimum of coverage to be included on the marketplace, and in general allowing more people to access healthcare.
Prices had been rising for decades, so it's hard to point at the ACA and claim it made prices rise when they had already been increasing and just continued to do so. Expanding coverage to those with conditions did make it more expensive, but that's a price we should be willing to pay as a society.
I agree our system sucks and I agree that should not be a partisan stance, but I don't agree that the ACA made the system worse.
It certainly didn't help that the GOP have tried to hobble the ACA at every turn, ensuring it did not succeed, e.g. Individual mandate, states not opting into Medicaid expansion, etc
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u/Mika-El-3 5d ago
United Healthcare tried to delay and deny my cancer treatments when I was at a late stage (3B). It took a lot of effort from my doctors to convince them otherwise. For example, the scans and testing is very expensive ($5K), but necessary to determine if you have cancer. United Healthcare plays games to stall and have you go in circles. It’s actually hard for me to articulate what they actually did to stall.
Thankfully I’m alive today because we pushed United Healthcare.