02-25-2020, 04:39 PM
(02-25-2020, 03:00 PM)GMDino Wrote: Well, hold on to your hat...
Just another example of big corporations f'n over the middle class to increase profits. The flu is an infectious disease that doesn't have anything to do with the past three years of your medical history. That's just an extra hoop insurance companies make customers jump through to create another barrier to weasel out of paying the claim.
And even if the patient were more susceptible because they have asthma, they're on chemo for cancer, or had their spleen removed; their medical history still wouldn't matter because they would have to be exposed to the damn flu virus in order to get the flu. That guy got the flu because he was exposed to the flu virus, not because of his medical history. He got the flu because he has lungs and requires oxygen to live and he breathed the virus into his respiratory tract. That type of behavior from insurance companies should be outlawed. And hospitals or medical providers should be required to put the total cost of what a patient will owe in writing up front instead of practically being given carte blanche to charge damn near whatever they want.