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Discussion (10 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

Molitor5901•4 minutes ago
It does help to be a journalist at a major magazine. Plebeians such as myself would be very lucky to get such a response.
mortar•32 minutes ago
https://archive.is/AIVji
tekla•28 minutes ago
Hell of a ragebait title.

Insurance would pay for standard care of an aggressive cancer, not for something that was much worse at prognosis.

vivzkestrel•22 minutes ago
- if the solution was to email the CEO for every denial

- how should the CEO handle this?

kelseyfrog•2 minutes ago
Aggressive spam filtering.
rideontime•6 minutes ago
By actually solving the problem that leaves contacting the CEO as the only solution available to the customer.
polski-g•about 1 hour ago
The cancer turned out to be more aggressive than was first surmised. Obviously, the insurance carrier was right to demand the aggressive, rather than "mild", chemotherapy.
atmavatar•5 minutes ago
Perhaps the insurer should defer to the doctor, who is not only generally an expert at treating cancer but also much more familiar with the details of the patient.

It baffles me why people are OK with insurers dictating care to doctors rather than the other way around.

stahtops•27 minutes ago
I returned to an email from the company’s chief scientific officer. Will approve tomorrow per oncologist request, his email said. The next day, I received multiple emails from company executives, authorizing milder chemo and apologizing.

Milder chemo came and went. My body felt like it was filled with cement after infusions; my eyes could not stay open; but the hairs on my head grew longer, and there were no more boils in my throat making it impossible to swallow or speak.

I went into remission that fall, and set myself to moving beyond cancer while also beginning to process the changes it had wrought on my body, and the nearness of my brush with death.

polski-g•17 minutes ago
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