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‘Make your health insurance company cry’: One woman’s fight to turn the tables on insurers (sfstandard.com)

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"... The “dirty secret” of the insurance industry is that most denials can be successfully appealed..."

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[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

by signing your name to it, you’re swearing that it’s all true.

Lawyers too use qualifiers like 'To the best of our knowledge' and 'in our studied opinion' to indicate that opinions may differ. That's why judges exist, and some of them are -so reasonable- that they will accept that people cannot be expected to decide whether a hospital's decision to operate -immediately- is not good enough.

These US 'insurance' companies are in the business of making money from people's health problems. In MOST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD that's not how health-care works. We, the people of the US, let the system get rigged this way ... we have to fix that. Permanently.