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Business, Economics, and Taxes 2: That's Why We Fight to Take the Means Back

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Better things aren't possible. Too expensive. How will you pay for it?
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I had insurance deny a medication for ALS, which is a progressive, rapidly fatal, incurable disorder. They wanted the patient to "fail" the one medication they were on before we started the only other FDA approved medication.

I asked them if they could define "fail" for me which they couldn't. I asked if they would prefer me to call them after the patient died, and we could sprinkle the other medication on their grave. They approved the medication after that.
 
My doctor knows how to play the game. She said I needed a medication but the insurance would deny it. So she prescribed a different, much more expensive, medication that the insurance would also deny. Then she contacted the insurance company and they agreed to give me the other medication as a compromise.

If you need a dollar, ask for ten and negotiate your way down to five.
 
WisconsinWildcard said:
I had insurance deny a medication for ALS, which is a progressive, rapidly fatal, incurable disorder. They wanted the patient to "fail" the one medication they were on before we started the only other FDA approved medication.

I asked them if they could define "fail" for me which they couldn't. I asked if they would prefer me to call them after the patient died, and we could sprinkle the other medication on their grave. They approved the medication after that.
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I was rather surprised to have to get pre approval for what is a life saving biopsy that is common for older men. That should not have even needed it.

Just illustrates my question of the morality of making shareholders profit on people getting sick. Which naturally want cost cutting. Aka denial of service. For sick and dying people. Fing kidding me.
 
MichVandal said:
I was rather surprised to have to get pre approval for what is a life saving biopsy that is common for older men. That should not have even needed it.

Just illustrates my question of the morality of making shareholders profit on people getting sick. Which naturally want cost cutting. Aka denial of service. For sick and dying people. Fing kidding me.
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Sort of like, once something is found on a mammogram and the doctor recommends you get a follow up in 6 months to monitor the situation....well now it's diagnostic not preventative, so insurance doesn't need to foot that bill. I really appreciated the pink t-shirt my company handed out a few months later, 'cause they care about breast cancer, just not enough to find a health insurance provider that cares about it.
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
Sort of like, once something is found on a mammogram and the doctor recommends you get a follow up in 6 months to monitor the situation....well now it's diagnostic not preventative, so insurance doesn't need to foot that bill. I really appreciated the pink t-shirt my company handed out a few months later, 'cause they care about breast cancer, just not enough to find a health insurance provider that cares about it.
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Remember all the pearl clutching over death panels? Or the "if you like your health insurance you can keep it" line?

They seem to be okay with corporate death panels. And don't have a problem with "If your employer likes your health insurance you can keep it."
 
My gastro got me an 18,000 dollar script for 12 capsules for treatment of c diff which is a nasty disease. Got the c diff from 4 days of cipro.
 
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My favorite is people who claim crypto will be great when civilization collapses...and it's like...when that happens there won't be any electricity or Internet. Your fancy crypto wallet will be a metal brick.
 
IBM (IBM) ended trading Tuesday down more than 25%, its worst drop since at least 1968, after the company preannounced earnings that fell well below Wall Street's expectations.

Big Blue attributed the results to customers shifting spending away from software and mainframe products and toward AI servers and memory.
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Trumpflation is hitting again. Gas at the truck stop by the interstate here went up 25 cents overnight to $3.89, diesel went up 40 cents to $4.89. The gas station in town hasn't upped theirs yet, but I think it will happen.
 
There are a few lawsuits which may stop Paramount from buying Warner, but there is another problem. Oracle has lost $360 billion market cap in less than two months. That's $158 billion hit to Larry Ellison. Can the Ellisons even afford the $110 billion price tag for Warner. WB wasn't interested until Larry said he'd put his own money into the deal. He doesn't have that money anymore...
 
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