Medicare for all

By Neal - 10/04/2023 09:00

Today I started bleeding from my gums and nose - I have bone marrow cancer and my insurance denied the only treatment available to me because my "health problem" isn't "bad enough". FML
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Anderling 32

The American healthcare system is an ongoing train wreck. I don’t know what to say except I’m sorry.

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FluffythePink 19

🫂 I never know what to say about this aspect of the US health 'care' system. It's beyond barbaric. Are there no advocacy or support groups who can help you challenge this? There's gotta be at least one Reddit dedicated to helping people in your situation navigate this bollocks. I'm English so I really don't know how the bureaucracy works but life or death decisions *should* be disputable, surely?

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Anderling 32

The American healthcare system is an ongoing train wreck. I don’t know what to say except I’m sorry.

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ass 11

Mail your blood soaked tissues to your insurance company

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Yudith 24

Better; take one photo a day of your bleeding self eating an orange, and mail two weeks of them with the tissues, to show them it's cancer, not scurvy, dammit!

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FluffythePink 19

🫂 I never know what to say about this aspect of the US health 'care' system. It's beyond barbaric. Are there no advocacy or support groups who can help you challenge this? There's gotta be at least one Reddit dedicated to helping people in your situation navigate this bollocks. I'm English so I really don't know how the bureaucracy works but life or death decisions *should* be disputable, surely?

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Earl_KarmasBitch 34

I think OP's point was that the bleeding wasn't considered "bad enough", not the cancer. Still pretty ridiculous.

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Thaylok 17

Have your Dr fight for you. Ins companies are in it for money, and deny anything expensive the first time through.

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Crowned Sataness 12

demand to see the medical credentials of the person who determined that. they often back down because they don't HAVE medical credentials.

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princess_stabitty 20

Demand to have an re-evaluation. Fight for yourself, OP, because your insurance sure as hell won't.

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