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Chriss's avatar

So sorry to read about Gillian's ongoing battle against cancer and unfortunate battle with her insurance company. Bad enough to battle the one headed monster but she's battling two. Insurance carriers should all assign a case worker to advocate and navigate the complex and nonsensical world of insurance companies. BTW hope the cake was as good as it looked.

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Richie Bittner's avatar

I am sorry for this bad, bad news. My wife of 34 years died from cancer 6 years ago and we had a very different experience with our insurance company. We had Fedelis thought the NYS exchange and when her cancer diagnosis was made, the insurance company assigned her a case specialist and she called once a week to check on her. Our copays were minimum and we got everything we needed. We were never denied and treatment and never saw a bill for any of it. Dealing with cancer is enough for someone to deal with, and the tragedy that is our health care payment schemes is that there are those who make a lot of money for perputrating the schemes. Health insurance is a misnomer, it's a payment scheme, because everyone will need health care at some point and insurance is supposed to be for unforeseen situations. It's time for us to do better. Your difficulty with all of theses entities during this time is disgraceful. I wish you both the best, what else can one say, work for change?

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