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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
A woman who can't afford to pay her medical bills probably isn't in a position to bring a lawsuit against a medical insurer and I can't see any lawyer worth his salt taking this on contingency.
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Not to mention that she'd probably be dead before the whole thing concluded. I was thinking more along the lines of some sort of medical association. Surely there's an ethics issues here re quality of life where insurance companies are over-ruling and dictating treatment based on their sole "evidence based medical research" without considering the alternative argument.
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Sneed is considered an expert on both procedures but said Blue Shield representatives didn't seem to want to listen to her opinion.
"There wasn't enough opportunity, I believe, to discuss it and talk about the pros and cons, and my rationale," she said.
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If they don't want to discuss the issues fully but instead dictate the treatment then they need to be called to justify and defend their decisions and the reasoning behind what appears to be an arbitrary 3 tumour rule.