What's the most serious claim you've had to make with UHC?
I fell prey to their AI that (definitely unintentionally) denied 90% of claims. I required surgery for a repetitive stress injury. I fought it and got the surgery done, but it pushed the surgery into the new plan year which I suppose was the original intention.
If this was a family member with cancer being treated the same way I'd be significantly more sanguine.
Emergency surgery that probably would have invariably killed me since the organ was already gangrenous.
It got called "medically unnecessary" because apparently the person processing the claim couldn't read the fact that the organ was already dead and stopped at the line "stomach pain".
Ehhh, this is the counter-argument from the employer. That $190K seems highly dubious. I, an at-will employee earn ~60% more via benefits... and let me tell you that's definitely not the same as cash.
And the pet bereavement et al sounds like bargaining chips (no better proof than them being dropped in the negotiation process.)
On the upside this error indicates that the writer just doesn't know Chicago, instead of the increasingly common issue of articles being written by (de)generative ai
I'm from Florida, the article is correct - it's an awful deal. The ecology of Florida is capital A Amazing, so it's a shame to see it get flattened for a private golf course. Unfortunately the heat causes a lot of the aged (voting) population of Florida to not engage or mostly be annoyed by the unique gift they've been given. Regardless politicians are financially incentivized for these giveaways and the hoi polloi isn't.
The fun thing about being rich is that you can vote for/financially contribute to the narcissistic authoritarian who wants to schtup his daughter and would be happy to crash the economy, esp if the devastating effects aren't felt until he's out of office -doing all this because the taxes you barely pay are too high - AND ALSO you can be ready to evacuate when things go pear shaped! It's a sweet life but I hope judgment finds them precipitously and harshly.
And AB wasn't playing flag football in college/HS. Certainly not the first big hit he took, either. But I agree, this one seemed to really mess him up.
Fighting in the Age of Loneliness is insanely great. I don't think there's anything close to it as far as covering the breadth and width of the sport up through the pandemic. I've watched it twice and thinking about it today is making me want to watch it again.
If you like that, Napoleon Blownapart's videos are probably the next closest thing. A bit more of an obscure recommendation (but free on Youtube!) is The Smashing Machine, a doc about Mark Kerr's personal trials and tribulations during the Pride years.
I fell prey to their AI that (definitely unintentionally) denied 90% of claims. I required surgery for a repetitive stress injury. I fought it and got the surgery done, but it pushed the surgery into the new plan year which I suppose was the original intention.
If this was a family member with cancer being treated the same way I'd be significantly more sanguine.