DUmmy greenbriar, one of the DUmp's most inveterate liars, bragged earlier about how great her insurance is. She apparently became concerned that she wasn't toeing the socialist line accurately enough, so she came up with this very lame bouncy story:
greenbriar (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-31-09 12:27 AM
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ARGG insurance companys frustrate me so...I got a letter stating they do not want me on two antibiotics
so I had pancreatitis and was given a shit load of medicine upon release
one medicine for my very agitated colon insurance outright denied hubby was going to pay for it out of pocket the pharmacy told him it was several hundred dollars
now I got a letter stating that they want reimbursement for one of the antibiotics as there wasn't a need for two at the same time...
Tomorrow I am gonna call...
I am going to ask them if they have ever had pancreatitis, ever had a potassium drip? an IV inflitrate? A arterial blood gas draw?
these people sit in an office and make decisions and have no ****ING clue as to what really is best for the patient
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6190290This bouncy story is another of those DUmmy experiences that happen routinely to them, but rarely, if ever, to normal people.
leftofcool (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-31-09 12:32 AM
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1. And they don't care either
They are in business to make money, not pay for your antibiotics. Do you want the poor CEO of ARGG to be denied his gadzillion dollar bonus just because you had to have your potassium drip? (sarcasm)
We gotta have single payer socialism.
Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-31-09 12:37 AM
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3. So, an insurance company is making medical decisions for you?
Does your doctor have any say in this?
Unbelievable.
sandnsea (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-31-09 12:45 AM
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8. We need a database and a web site
To put in the stories of people who have actually died, starting with Andy. Then another section of people where the insurance bureaucracy got between the patient and doctor. And another section for people who have been rationed out of their health care due to a lack of money and end up at those health fairs in Wise VA.
That's a great idea! A database! Lots of people have actually died. Frankly speaking though, many people died before Andy. He was not the first person to have died.
Toucano (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-31-09 12:50 AM
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10. I am so happy you have a free market system where you get to choose your doctor
and a bean counter tells him or her how to practice medicine.