Adams, 51, lost his right leg to cancer 40 years ago, and he has worn out more legs than he can count. He picked a gold plan on the Colorado health insurance marketplace that covered prosthetics, including microprocessor-controlled knees like the one he has used for many years. That function adds stability and helps prevent falls.
But when his leg needed replacing last January after about five years of everyday use, his new marketplace health plan wouldn’t authorize it. The roughly $50,000 leg with the electronically controlled knee wasn’t medically necessary, the insurer said, even though Colorado law leaves that determination up to the patient’s doctor, and his has prescribed a version of that leg for many years, starting when he had employer-sponsored coverage.
I get insurance for getting my teeth checked whilst USA insurance companies somehow manage to skip on helping people pay for diabetes medicine and fucking taking their legs away
Don’t forget surgery anesthesia
Are their lives medically necessary? Cause I see no reason why insurance company are necessary.
Maybe more disposing is necessary.
Insurance company executives are neither socially nor medically necessary.
The only person who had any balls to do it is already in jail.
There are 330 million Americans in the US and some of them definitely have the combination of morals that Luigi does.
A lot of people have the additional component of nothing left to lose.
