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beep@piefed.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Patient Dies by Suicide After ‘Insurance Issue’ Delayed Medicine for Lung Disease Flare-Ups

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Patient Dies by Suicide After ‘Insurance Issue’ Delayed Medicine for Lung Disease Flare-Ups

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beep@piefed.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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Patient Dies by Suicide After ‘Insurance Issue’ Delayed Medicine for Lung Disease Flare-Ups - KFF Health News
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Hours after experiencing a flare-up related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Kenney Blewett of Kyle, Texas, died by suicide in June. A medication his doctor prescribed days earlier to ease his breathing problems hadn’t been filled due to an “insurance issue,” his pharmacy explained via email.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/inforeport/p/1438519/patient-dies-by-suicide-after-insurance-issue-delayed-medicine-for-lung-disease-flare-up

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    It wasn’t suicide, insurance company killed him IMO.

    • sartalon@lemmy.world
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      That is not an opinion, but on objective truth.

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    How will the people in charge be able to afford their new mega-yachts if they pay for frivolous luxuries like breathing medications though? Come on, it’s simple math!

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      Even more easily now that they don’t need to pay for this medication. Sick patients killing themselves is probably seen as a result to be encouraged in the boardroom.

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      Yeah, good thing Trump is defending the billionaires’ basic human right for third super yacht again these greedy peasant demanding the luxury of staying alive :((

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        In the arms of the angel
        Fly awaaaay from here
        From this dark, cold hotel room
        And the endlessness that you fear

        Hi, I’m Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Will you be an angel for a helpless billionaire?

  • Boo! Haunted House!@lemmy.world
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    Delay, Deny, Depose.

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    Keep killing CEO’s, it is so far the most reliable way to save lives.

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      You need to wipe out the boards. CEOs are just evil chumps willing to be the face of the board’s evil doings.

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        Yep, most people don’t get this.

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    We need more Italian plumbers.

    • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
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      🤌 🤌 🤌 🤌

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    A nation that can’t take care of its own citizens is doomed to collapse.

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    “Dies by suicide” is a euphemism for murdered.

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    Insurance company murders client

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    Without opening the article, guessing: United Healthcare?

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      Walgreens didn’t send prior authorization because they’re understaffed after getting bought out by private equity and their employees fuck up a lot, Medicare Part B demanded prior authorization because they have to follow shitty rules that deny healthcare because Congress is a pack of assholes

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      They don’t say 👀

      Edit: I need to work on reading comprehension in the morning

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        They name all the potentially responsible parties in the article.

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          Son of a gun, I was looking for an explicit healthcare corp to pop up and my brain completely missed Medicare lol my bad y’all

          Edit: even worse: I just now see that medigap bit too. Big old reading comprehension failure up in here, pay me no mind

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