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Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’ (nypost.com)

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I once went to the ed for butt disease related dehydration. The idiot PA manning the ed would not be gainsayed about my medical history that I was there for, not him. It could be possible that his 15 second glance through my 400 volume medical records may have missed some nuanced. But no, according to him I had the flu not the fatal butt disease..I meani get it out was in the middle of a flu outbreak and I was merely missing half of my butt and much of everything above it. My fatally afflicted by butt disease parts were just at the store buying cigarettes I couldn't know what I'm talking about.

A week later I get a letter from the medical group my insurance is through. "Jello my liege YMCA blah blah blah you went to the hospital when you only had the flu

[–] Starski@lemmy.zip 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Are you having a fucking stroke, you can't use a word like gainsay if you're not going to use proper grammar throughout the comment.

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I read that twice and I still don't know what is going on.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I had no problem with it. Dude's got the butt disease and insurance (predictably) fucking sucks.

[–] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Made perfect sense to me