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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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[–] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Counter-theory: nothing got stolen, the insurance already paid a million for other treatments buying him a lot of time, but in the end the cancer won.

Now we don't know any of that because the article is slop and doesn't tell us anything that wouldn't fit the sob-story narrative.

[–] Doom@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Whose money? Insurance is paid by a pool of people. That makes it a community resource and when a community members gets sick that resource should be allocated to taking care of them. People don't pay insurance thinking "Gee I sure hope when I need coverage they deny me and direct my funds to the fatheads at the top of my insurance company."

And the article being true/false/slop is irrelevant. Most Americans have experience with this fucked up system of ours that's why it resonates.