Salim is expecting the full $95,862.95 he paid. However, court records show that Blue Cross has said it only needs to pay Salim the discounted rate it had negotiated with MD Anderson at the time of his radiation treatment: $35,170.47. That’s what Blue Cross would have paid if its doctors had said yes in the first place.
Fucking scumbags.
They should have to pay him 3 times what he paid not 1/3. It’s their fault they didn’t get that discount. They had a chance and passed.
$120k to show US health insurance literally kills people for profit and it won’t actually change a damn thing how they do business.
B-b-but who will pay for it if we have a single payer public healthcare?!?!?!
Meanwhile it costs more money to prop up these private “insurance” scammers than it would to fund Medicare for all. The only goddamn country out of all others of similar standing just somehow can’t figure it out!
And who fights this shit? Republicans. Who wastes the most money, racking up trillions and trillions of extra debt to throw on the pile? Republicans.
They are the part of fiscal responsibility for billionaires. The rest of you literally can fucking die and they will smile. More money and resources for them.
Republicans are the one reason I can’t really get behind single payer. Because when they’re in charge nobody will get paid and nobody will get healthcare.
Yeah, agreed. Let’s change nothing cause bad people will try to fuck us over!
How is it always shitjustworks users with the dumbest takes. What’s in the water over there?
Let’s just be a lot more careful than the Fucking Founding Fathers were, or FDR, or Obama, to carve in safeguards against plundering and manipulation by evil-minded fascists. At the very least, lock in automatic funding that adapts to the cost of living index. And lock out privatization that doesn’t come with financial contributions to the public system.
The death panels were already here.
It’s all about protecting the profits of the corporation, so, it’s more like a death board of directors.
Now, imagining this happening to someone that isn’t a top trial lawyer.
no need to imagine, it’s how they make money
Good read, horrifying story.
I love ProPublica. They’ve been killing it this year.
