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Originally Posted by jtfrogger
Isn't this type of rejection by an insurance company a relatively common occurrence in the US?
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It is. The insurance companies will retain actual staff members whose job it is to find ways to deny claims. It happens routinely with smaller bills, where consumers will often just say "F it" and pay for the service themselves, even if they're not getting the coverage they were promised. But there are high-profile cases like this one where an insurance company will deny coverage to someone who needs life-saving treatment, often based on either a technicality or on their interpretation of what is and is not an appropriate treatment.
One of the funniest (in a dark, awful way) arguments against single-payer health care that I used to hear down there was "I don't want a government bureaucrat standing between me and my doctor." Apparently an insurance company bureaucrat is better for some reason.