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It would be hilarious if this happened again and the guy was called Mario.
Your comment to gods ears!
For idiots who would like the UK to adopt American system instead:
“NHS covers the cost of prosthetic limbs for those who need them. In the UK, there are around 55,000 to 60,000 patients who require prosthetic limbs due to amputation or congenital limb deficiencies, and NHS England allocates about £60 million annually for these services.”
If you read the article though, it appears as though a more basic prosthetic would be covered, but the one with electronics to provide greatly enhanced stability will not be.
I’m in no way siding with the insurance company, but they’re not flat out refusing to cover the prosthetic.
They’re afraid of giving one-legged men the power to luck their asses.
Luigi was right all along
Tbh I was expecting the first comment to contain the name Luigi…
Up you go, and soon it will.
Someone needs some adjusting.
Man, I wish I could serve on that Luigi jury.
So say we all.
Okay, I can spell out the “medical necessity” for you insurance companies in a way you’ll understand: mental health is important for physical health. You do things to improve mental health and you also improve physical health. So if you improve someone’s mental health now, you won’t be paying out for all of the later physical problems brought on by the stress and the knowledge that their life would be better if only some more miserly than Scrooge insurance company would let them have a fucking leg.
And having a prosthetic limb is important for physical health anyways. Helps you be more active, massively increases productivity (that’s what capitalists want right?), decreases wheelchair/caregiver costs, etc.
It’s simply an all around win.
Excellent points. The increased physical activity part would also save these idiot insurance companies money, but they would have to think beyond the next quarter.
Wow. This means that now, someone can say that medical bills literally cost them an arm & a leg.
That doesn’t seem like a smart response to one of you getting assassinated.
Could be a punishment in the vein of “one of you defied, so you’ll all be punished.” Y’know, l everaging a person’s individual fear of being the “cause” for things getting worse to prevent them from attempting to make any changes. It’s a classic crackdown in authoritarian areas.
Edit: not to say that’s what’s happening, but that is a methodology.
You think a CEO has ever been beaten near death with a broken prosthetic limb? Just asking maybe that’s a thing.
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*not an actual news network. Yet.You’ll need to get a Prior Authorization on that offing to show that it’s Ethically Necessary. Fortunately you’ve come to the right place.
Insurance companies push obvious lies to intentionally defraud the public. That’s their entire business model. That’s why your doctor had to fight through dozens of automatic rejections sent by the insurance company, they fully intend to lie in order to avoid making payments they agreed too when signing you up for insurance. A just society would be putting these people in federal prisons.
This leads me to question the social necessity of companies gatekeeping medical services
But if it was socialized we would have death panels lol like this isn’t already a death panel with less guardrails
That “death panels” bullshit was such obvious propaganda.
The answer should’ve been “death panels already exist, would you rather them be civil servants or for-profit insurance agency accountants?”
