Comments | naamah_darling: And I thought MY insurance company was incompetent and malicious.

naamah_darling

And I thought MY insurance company was incompetent and malicious.

Oct 21, 2009 22:57

Rape is a "pre-existing condition." Enjoy maybe getting AIDS.Sometimes I want to resign from the human race just for the pleasure of saying "I have nothing in common with you shitfuckers. I hope you die in agony. Alone. Except for those 3d6 priapic wild pigs ( Read more... )

stupidity, misogyny in action, fucka buncha that, feminism, social justice, wtf, depressing, rage, sad

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poptartodoom October 22 2009, 04:20:52 UTC

...Oh god.

How... how can they SLEEP at night?! How can they live with the fact that they deny people care because they were assaulted? Victims are already so fragile, and then to tell them they can't get coverage because they had to take an AIDS cocktail? What about health professionals when they get a needle prick? Do they get penalized later for having to take the cocktail as a precaution? Are they in the same category, or is it not their fault because it was at work?

This sort of stuff makes me sick and sad.

ravenskye8 October 22 2009, 18:22:11 UTC

We don't hear about medical professionals losing insurance for the same reason because most get their benefits through the hospitals they work at or are affiliated with... The HR benefits office of the hospital would switch insurance companies if they started denying medical staff coverage for on-the-job injuries, etc.

At least this is the case at the hospital where my husband works in HR... If you are a large enough employer, you can boss the insurance company around quite a bit...

What would be interesting to note is what happens to health professionals after they retire or otherwise try to get insurance outside of the healthcare system - would this issue come back to bite them at that point or not?

denelian October 22 2009, 23:52:58 UTC

my mom was injured at work. a woman in labor grabbed my mom (OB nurse) and ruptured 3 vertabrae in her lower spine. the hospital REFUSED TO ACCEPT THAT THIS HAD HAPPENED, and tried to deny her care and benefits and etc. they tried to fire her. she got a lawyer. it's the *only* reason she wasn't effectively made homeless - the hospital didn't want the bad PR of denying that they "let" a nurse be injured and disabled on the job and then tried to fire her and yank her benefits. of course, since this happened in 1990 the hospital has become unionized, so that helped.

*confused* ravenskye8 October 23 2009, 06:23:20 UTC

That sounds more like the hospital, your mom's employer, was trying to get out of dealing with and paying for your mom's on-the-job injury (a worker's compensation claim issue)... not that her health insurance provider was trying to deny her coverage...

If that's the case - that is a whole other can of worms about ethical business practices, on top of the whole healthcare debacle...

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shakatany October 22 2009, 04:38:14 UTC

I was watching Rachel Maddow and she reported the House and the Senate are considering revoking the anti-trust exemption that the health insurance industry has been enjoying for the past 60-odd years. It's about time.

Shakatany

apocalypticbob October 22 2009, 05:01:46 UTC

*shaking with rage*

sterlingspider October 22 2009, 21:54:34 UTC

Icon love!

I have to admit I'm jealous as yours is so much better. Would you mind terribly if I ganked it?

apocalypticbob October 22 2009, 21:58:25 UTC

Go ahead! I totally ganked it from the_red_diva, so she should receive credit for it, please.

jamethiel_bane October 22 2009, 05:19:52 UTC

I hope they feel deeply, deeply ashamed.

They're still people. They're just BAD people.

*kicks things*

denelian October 22 2009, 06:02:58 UTC

it's like the worst of slut-shaming crossed with the worst of "fiscal responsibility" in "health insurance"

i say true: insurance people *don't* take the Hippocratic Oath. they have *zero* obligation, in their eyes, to anyone except stockholders.

i have PTSD. i have PTSD partially because i raped as a child. as a child, with my father in the Air Force. as a child, with my father in the Air Force, on base.
the Air Force declined to prosecute, and then (after my parents were split up and my mother remarried, and my step-father started in on me) CHAMPUS refused to *pay* for any treatment at all. because "PTSD is something that soldiers and sailors develope from living in hellish conditions. children cannot suffer Hell". CANNOT, they say ( ... )

naamah_darling October 22 2009, 06:12:38 UTC

Man, that is a carnival of what the fuckery. Holy shit, I am sorry you have to deal with that cockamamie bullshit.

The whole children can't know hell thing is a pile of steaming horse shit. What the fuck were they even THINKING?!

denelian October 22 2009, 16:27:25 UTC

i *think* they were thinking "this is 1983; do we really want to lose control of the ONE illness the VA *will* pay for?"
i could be wrong. that's how i interpret how i remember it today. and i have run into that since -
you have PTSD - where you in the military? oh, then it's NOT PTSD". sigh

sigh.

sorry for ranting. you just... you are a *safe* place to me, doppelganger :) and so it was a safe place that was discussing this particular thing that i can't even MENTION in other places, so...yeah.

dearest_janna October 22 2009, 22:32:33 UTC

Oh, joy. Sounds like the same fuckers who wanted to deny me my depression medication because they couldn't get their kick-back off it. My psych just told them that she COULD switch me to one of their medications, but they'd be liable if I went batshit and killed myself or somebody.

Yeah, thanks, Aetna. Finally leaving you fuckwits!

And, my mother thinks I'm nuts for wanting to go into counseling for a career. 'Cause kids are so well-adjusted and happy, doncherknow.

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