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A set of baby twins that are going to slowly die over the next two years because the company that made a single shot cure wants to charge over $2,000,000 per dose and insurance won't spend that much.
What the fuck.
Sometimes I wish I was a billionaire so I could 1) cover these things immediately and 2) have enough influence to change the rules
The US hard up needs straight socialized Healthcare. Our model is complete shit.
Their story gets even more screwed up. The woman who had the kids' health insurance (through her work, cause murika) cut this drug and others like it the day after the woman's kids were born. Doctors ran tests on her twins and confirmed the issue 4 days later.
So if she'd have had her kids less than a week earlier, the insurance would have been forced to cover it. I practically find it hard to believe it was such a coincidence.
Either your info is out of date or you didn't actually read the story. Insurance covered the shots, albeit only after being pressured. It's fubar anyway, but the particular story you're referencing resolved in a just way
The story may have gotten an update. When I read about it, there was no resolution and the mom was trying to gofundme for some help and the hospital tried to get insurance to do it under the argument that they were born a day before the drug was cut from the list, and insurance still denied it.
Fair enough. If you're interested: https://lemmy.world/post/15034789
That's the article I read, but I still don't see a mention that the insurance wound up paying. I don't see any update beyond them trying to acquire the money for the treatments.
You're right. Looks like the updates are from gofundme page https://www.gofundme.com/f/eli-easton-reid
Thing is that those billionnaires do exactly that, just the wrong way. No one needs to be a billionnaire or multimillionnaire.
Every billionaire is a policy failure
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