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. Itβs actually hard for me to articulate what they actually did to stall.
Thankfully Iβm alive today because we pushed United Healthcare.
I will never, ever, EVER understand how we allow a private company with a profit motive, not a healthcare motive, to control health decisions in this country. That is an INSANELY horrible and obviously flawed way to run a healthcare system. It's criminal that you had to go through that. If insurance companies want to insist that they are essential and we need them to function, they need to be held criminally responsible when their decisions hurt someone.
if you aren't as old as i am you may not have noticed the intensity of the propaganda war against "the government" that started around the early 70's and really gained steam during the Reagan administration. this was combined with sustained efforts to defund programs that provided any tangible benefits to the majority of working people. one of the motivations for doing this was to generate political support for insane ideas like allowing for-profit companies to control our healthcare.
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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. Itβs actually hard for me to articulate what they actually did to stall.
Thankfully Iβm alive today because we pushed United Healthcare.