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#DenyDelayDepose

We need better. The USA will never be a county that cares for and does the best for its residents while private insurance companies exist

Can be debilitating, isn’t fatal like so many other conditions that insurance companies deny treatment for and delay treatment for

My personal experiences, have been frustrating, expensive, anxiety provoking, and while they have extended my pain, ultimately I managed to get my surgeries. My experience has been much better than many in terms of outcomes. My stakes were also lower. Foot pain, while it

I’ve seen it as a professional and as a patient and as a family member

Private insurance companies will chose, each time and without question, profits over people and they will make decisions that cause suffering, debt, and death so they can line their pockets

Never mind that rabies is utterly fatal without the vaccine. They didn’t consider it necessary.

So I ended up having to pay the entire bill out of pocket

Not to mention the time that I was bitten by a bat and they DENIED THE RABIES SHOTS

The same issues occurred during the first surgery and delayed it by 3 months.

Spent 45 minutes on the phone arguing before I gave up and used aspirin instead.

Then the night before the surgery. The anti-blood clot medication was denied.

After a long series of appeals and phone calls, we got the second denial overturned.

My podiatrist appealed it, and the reversed the appeal. Then they denied it again on Tuesday. This time, they said the bunion was cosmetic. Neve mind the pain, never mind the successful surgery completed on the same foot earlier this year.

This week, the insurance company denied it on Monday. The reason? My birthday was smudged on the xray.

I had the first surgery done in March of 2024, but I’m completely skipping that story for brevity. Basically, the same issues with insurance came up then

I had gone from running a 5k every day over my lunch break, hiking and paddle boarding on the weekends, and playing with my daughter every day after work to avoiding activities and limping down the halls at work

After a year of failed treatment options, my podiatrist recommended a lapidus bunionectomy as the option for the most likely and effective way to treat the pain, and remove the conditions that led to it

Each time that I ran, stepped on uneven terrain, wore ice skates, or even squatted down to get on the same level as my very very active five year old daughter, I had pain that was no managed by NSAIDS, padding, expensive shoes, etc

The systemic inflammation triggered by the Covid led to a quick development of arthritis in each of the bunions. As a runner, hiking, avid player with my kids, I was suddenly having sharp pains

But mine, like his, never had any pain, I never really noticed it or paid attention at all. Until I was recovering from Covid, and from then in on the pain only grew

The bunions I had had for a while — condition inherited from my dad, whose bunion looks like a walnut growing from the side of his foot

After I got Covid, I quickly started having pain in my feet. After several X-rays a few months later, after all my methods of pain management and treatment were unsuccessful, I was diagnosed with bilateral bunions

I myself work in a residential forensic psychiatric hospital, and we got through the onset of COVID until now without a single patient death due to very diligent infectious disease protocols

After I first got COVID in 2022, after being masked and protected the entire time I got it from an unmasked family member who got it from their work

My experience working with insurance companies just the last two weeks

I saw the United Healthcare CEO shooter drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's, and his hair was perfect!

After I told everyone I wasn’t going to cook anything this year — made harissa & tarragon deviled eggs, deviled strawberries, a chocolate/strawberry cake, and I’m almost done with an hour of caramelizing onions for a vegetable tart 😳

The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th”

When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

This is a spectacular photo!