Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for "insurance fairness" on the grounds that people who have joints surgically replaced typically don't face the same kinds of coverage challenges.
  • macniel@feddit.org
    121·
    23 hours ago

    I guess some Health Insurance CEO needs their leg shot off, see how a prosthetic limb can become a necessity.

    (for legal and moderation reasons: this isn’t a joke)

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    782·
    23 hours ago

    Not even one month. That’s how long it took for them to resume screwing over their insurees.

  • fan0m@lemmy.world
    101·
    23 hours ago

    The article makes it sound like the insurance will no longer approve a higher end prosthetic rather than something that is not as feature-rich.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      4 hours ago

      it’s a limb replacement, the only ones everyone should wear is the fanciest ones unless they specifically request a simpler one.

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
      24·
      20 hours ago

      That’s not what it said. If you read through the entire article, you find statistics about how many people can’t get prosthetics at all because they aren’t considered necessary or they can’t afford the co-payment or they have to take out a loan.

      But even if what you said were the focus, that would be equally messed up. The article opens with the story of a man who got his artificial leg replaced for many years and only recently did they try to reject the hardware that he needs, the hardware that his doctor prescribes… What kind of screwy bait and switch shit would that be? Your insurance company should not be deciding how you live.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        can’t afford the co-payment

        Use fees are cruel barriers to proper healthcare. We see it even in some parts of Canada (healthcare in Canada isn’t uniform, region-to-region, as it was relegated to provinces to define so the cruel conservatives couldn’t unilaterally kill it, and so they just gut their own region’s support to the bare letter of the law and thus implement user fees and premiums).