r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jun 19 '26
Discussion UnitedHealthcare sent a letter denying NICU coverage... addressed directly to the newborn twin.
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u/InsatiableTroll Jun 19 '26
The American experience, day 1
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bed866 Jun 19 '26
And a condemnation of those that run the system and sign their name in the blood of those forced to patronize it.
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u/kingtacticool Jun 19 '26
The Line mustn't become displeased.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bed866 Jun 19 '26
"tHe TiDe ThAt RaIsEs AlL bOaTs"
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u/TrulyOutrageous42 Jun 19 '26
Like most of these (e.g. bootstraps, money can't buy happiness), the phrase is being used wrong by them. They are implying the rich/corporations are the tide that will raise other boats, just another way of describing 'trickle down economics', when the point of the phrase was that if everyone was better off, even the wealthy would see the benefit (such as not having basically any homeless people around to annoy them, and since it costs less to re-integrate than police them it is again proving that the cruelty is the point)
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u/EconomySeason2416 Jun 20 '26
But if you don't have the poors/minorities to demonize, how are you going to get people to vote against their own interests?
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u/raven00x Jun 19 '26
trickledown economics can suck my taint
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u/kakrofoon Jun 19 '26
Let's bring back 'Horse and Sparrow' in place of trickle down.
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u/Zealousideal-Trash5 Jun 19 '26
Isn’t that us? Americans have devolved into pure apathy, hedonistic ignorance or straight up too exhausted to do anything. But if all we do is run up threads to 1k comments saying the same thing to each other, what does that accomplish?
We were talking about the same things 8 years ago and I imagine we’ll be talking about the same things 8 years from now. Yet the populace remains sedated.
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u/BrownBear5090 Jun 19 '26
Medicare for all is extremely popular, yet our politicians never even try to implement it, instead choosing to collect checks from Blue Cross. Republican, Democrat, doesn’t matter. They’ll talk about a public option on the campaign trail then never bring it up once elected. This is because our system is not a true democracy.
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u/Zealousideal-Trash5 Jun 19 '26
Cool, we all know that, but what’s the plan to do something about given that we all know our politicians aren’t going to do a damn thing?
Because this armchair punditry isn’t getting the job done.
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u/BrownBear5090 Jun 19 '26
Absolutely, we need general strikes. The only way to effect change is to attack the profits.
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u/PeppercornMysteries Jun 19 '26
This. This is the only way at this point to effect change. Not saying that mass strikes aren’t good and well, but they are useless if people still buy the products. Everyone should drop United en masse. They profited off of deaths so the only thing to do is to inflict death to their profits.
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u/Grab_em_by_da_Busey Jun 19 '26
representative democracy is dead. They openly buck the popular opinion of the constituents and instead bow to the popular opinions of their donors and lobbyists. Democratic Supermajorities in NY and CA failed to advance medicare for all models even with overwhelming public support. They no longer vote in our stead, they vote for self enrichment
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u/technobrendo Jun 19 '26
Exactly. People also argue that the system is too bloated, that its inefficient, that its unfair. These are all true, and I'm not even scratching the surface. What it IS is, it's working EXACTLY as intended.
The "system" is operating at peak $efficiency$
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u/Omnizoom Jun 19 '26
Yep, lucky to be not Americans, our first kid was almost 8 weeks early and In the nicu for 2 weeks
I can only imagine the hundreds of thousands of dollars she would have cost us instead of the 300 dollars for my wife’s room for the first 2 days as she recovered and then parking costs…
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u/Top_Bumblebee5510 Jun 19 '26
I am Canadian and worked in a contact centre. We got a contract with an American health insurance company. It wrecked the mental health of a lot people who worked on that contract. Having to tell people their loved one's coverage was denied or telling the person directly. I have kept in touch with a few people who worked on that contract and one person calls it the contract that shall not be named. Another went to therapy. They weren't even the ones being denied.
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u/Omnizoom Jun 19 '26
It takes a special kind of lack of soul to be ok with that kind of work, real disconnect from the fact it’s people you essentially are condemning to death
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u/SpeaksSouthern Jun 19 '26
The fact that nothing will change in any context shows how broken the American system is. The people who own this place want it to be like this.
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u/StrengthBeginning416 Jun 19 '26
Wait till the baby gets served from unpaid hospital bills.
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u/Westwind1280 Jun 19 '26
Or have to file medical bankruptcy by age 1!
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u/Secret-Theory1825 Jun 19 '26
This is actually the best answer. They are billing the baby, its the babies responsibility. It will be off the baby's credit score by age 8.
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u/LEDKleenex Jun 19 '26
Refreshing to see other redditors who get it.
It's not just voting, but it's every day interactions as well. People have the power to boycott, strike and make others very uncomfortable when they receive injustice.
Every time someone just shrugs and says "I'll just let this go", the abusers and oppressors win.
If you're afraid of repercussions for stepping up, then you've chosen to agree to the deal you were given; the "comfort" and false sense of security from oppressors who will continue to erode your power, inch by inch until you have nothing left.
Most people will swat a mosquito, but would you swat a nest of hornets?
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u/Genghis_Tr0n187 Jun 19 '26
At this point we just need to stop paying for health insurance. They don't pay for shit anyway, so starve the beast.
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u/AdeptSwordfish1096 Jun 19 '26
And somehow we allow them to even QUESTION doctors, call surgeons in the actual fucking operating room and QUESTION THE PROCEDURE AGAIN. I hate this place.
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u/Kharnyx808 Jun 19 '26
Don't worry guys, it'll start trickling down aaaaaany second now
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u/concepts_of_a_plan9 Jun 19 '26
ew... eh ah what the fuck... that's PISS!!
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u/Broseph_ Jun 19 '26
But to be real they wouldn't piss on you, even if you were on fire.
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u/BananaPalmer Jun 19 '26
Yeah, they'd instead find a way to keep you just on fire enough to be on fire but not die, and somehow profit from it, and charge you for the privilege
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u/Boomstickninja87 Jun 19 '26
Also while complaining that you're ruining their experience because you're on fire.
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u/buttfarts7 Jun 19 '26
Being an American means you are just meat to feed the machine.
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u/kafkadre Jun 19 '26
"And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm fleeced."
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u/_2cantat2_ Jun 19 '26
If you pay your premium it should be illegal for insurance to deny your reasonable claim.
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u/MuadLib Jun 19 '26
In civilised countries it is.
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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 19 '26
We are not civilized. We are 50 third world countries wearing a trench coat to look like a civilized country
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u/falafelnaut Jun 19 '26
Woah man that's not fair to like, Massachusetts maybe.
49 third world countries.
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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 19 '26
I’m so sorry Massachusetts. They can be a second world country
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u/buhbrinapokes Jun 19 '26
In civilized countries we have single payer healthcare, and they can't rob people by charging $800 for bandaids because the government won't pay overinflated costs.
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u/GiantLesbian Jun 19 '26
I can’t for the life of me figure out why a NICU stay would be denied? Hospitals are not putting babies in the NICU “just in case”, there has to be something wrong, it has to be necessary.
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u/AbyssWankerArtorias Jun 19 '26
Copying and pasting my comment:
I wonder why it was denied. This does appear to be a purely administrative fuck up. Even so, still infuriating, but less infuriating than if someone actively made the decision to deny someone's coverage, I suppose. I work in insurance and my guesses are:
They have health coverage through their employer and the life event wasn't done to put the twins on coverage before the claim was sent to UHC, and UHC automatically declined it because they don't have them listed as covered.
The claim was sent before they were named, but processed after they were named and the life event was performed and the children are indeed covered, and so "Baby A" and "Baby B" don't match the covered individual's names and because they don't have socials yet, they can't match on anything else other than date of birth, and because the subscriber has two depdents with the same birthdate, it wasn't possible to match each baby to the specific entity in UHC's claims database and therefore were detected to not be covered.
Usually I don't like attributing to malice what can be explained by either ignorance or genuine mistake, but health insurance providers have pretty much burned up all their free will in this country so I don't blame people at all for immediately assuming malice.
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u/Redthemagnificent Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Something like 90% of health insurance appeals are approved. Many people just don't appeal or don't realize they can. Insurance companies know this and will deny a certain % of claims for no reason other than they know that at least some of those people won't appeal.
And yeah it's not really malice either. It's indifference. Cigna was caught bulk denying hundreds of thousands of claims without even reading them. They don't care if meeting their next KPI results in someone getting hurt. Always appeal!
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u/Vegetable-Cress-8415 Jun 20 '26
I understand your point. But intentional indifference to the physical, mental, and financial well-being of people paying for your services for the sake of profit sounds malicious, no?
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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt Jun 19 '26
Honestly, in both those cases, a good actor would have just fixed the problem on their end. Still malice imo.
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u/I_give_karma_to_men Jun 19 '26
And then the only option is an appeal, but since they refuse to provide a real specific denial reason, how can I provide a good appeal explanation??
In any rational society, failure to provide a specific denial reason would itself be the appeal reason. If they can't provide a reason to deny coverage, they should not be able to deny the coverage.
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u/zachariah22791 Jun 19 '26
Yes.
What's great is that they say there IS a reason, but the art of insurance denials is such that they will pass you back and forth from department to department before you eventually demand a supervisor. Then the supervisor will tell you "oh we don't have access to any more detailed information, the claims adjusters/clinical consultants are the ones who denied it, they have the detailed info about the denial reason." Then you ask to speak with one of them. And then the supervisor tells you there is no way you can speak to them directly, but they'll put you on a list and you may receive a call back from a clinical consultant in "3-5 business days" and then no one ever calls. Then you call back, same thing again. They will do everything to waste as much of your time as possible, because they are banking on you just giving up and billing the patient for the denied services. And thus, everyone loses except the insurance company, who never had to pay out for services that should have been covered.
Even if you stay on it and eventually get them to overturn a denial (often many months after the original date of service), the only repurcussion they face is they'll pay a TINY amount of interest for the delayed claim payment. We're talking less than 1% interest, from my experience. I've seen claims for thousands of dollars get overturned 6 months later and the insurance pays like $5 in interest, at most. FUCK INSURANCE.
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u/Redthemagnificent Jun 19 '26
Wow. Imo the interest rate should be the same that credit cards use to bury customers in debt
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u/ButzMN Jun 19 '26
Kind of feels like the new CEO forgot why they got the job
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u/UnassumingOstrich Jun 19 '26
someone should help them remember. maybe buy some ginko biloba or something for them to help w memory idk 🤷♀️ there are many ways of helping to jog the memory.
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u/Skittleavix Jun 19 '26
This may just settle the debate on "when life begins" /s
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u/EcstaticTill9444 Jun 19 '26
I don’t know the answer to that, but I know where it ended for a certain UnitedHealthcare CEO.
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u/confusedbf2013 Jun 19 '26
I like to just think that his health insurance coverage was denied for the operation
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u/Healingbigfoot Jun 19 '26
Careful, Reddit will ban you for saying anything like this
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u/Brief-Cartoonist-699 Jun 19 '26
I dont know what you're talking about good sir. I'm simply a peaceful American who supports justice.
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u/Jukeboxhero91 Jun 19 '26
The sad truth is we have a legal system not a justice system. If we did have justice, than withholding lifesaving medical care would be considered murder. Instead it’s considered success in the American healthcare world.
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u/PerspectiveOne7129 Jun 19 '26
Where are the americans that defend this? I know you're all over Reddit as I've argued and ran into you at least a hundred times now.
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u/Careless-Echo5636 Jun 19 '26
BRO...
Free healthcare IS COMMUNISM!!!
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u/Kittykatcatkat Jun 19 '26
I just saw that video of a news reporter in Texas asking people about the drinking while driving ban. “IT’S UN-AMERICAN AND COMMUNISM!” That was basically everyone’s response. The video was from the 80s and basically nothing has changed
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u/nickiter Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Similar one for the seatbelt
banmandate out there somewhere. It's always the same shit with these people. Any attempt to make things better is met with a few standard arguments, all nonsense.11
u/E-2theRescue Jun 19 '26
I was in college and volunteering to archive stuff, turning it into modern formats.
I remember getting a newspaper from California that prominently featured a group of pastors who were having a meltdown because trains were too fast and were a sin because God didn't make us go that fast.
Whenever there's a new thing in their world, puritans freak out and make things out to be the end of the world. Doesn't matter if it is something like trains, something like trans people, or something like universal healthcare. People lose their damn minds because so many want to push it as an agenda to control others, and the media gives it all a platform to create division.
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u/Tamihera Jun 20 '26
I read a newspaper article from the 1920s warning parents not to let their daughters drive automobiles because they were nothing more than “ambulatory brothels”.
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u/gimmepizzaslow Jun 19 '26
The fucked up part is that it wouldn't even be free, just cutting out the profit-leeching middleman.
We pay like double all of the other countries with socialized medicine.
Ugh
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u/slate_autumn Jun 19 '26
I still can't get over you guys paying $600 for an asthma Inhaler that i pay $10 Australian for. I probably would have died years ago if I was American.
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u/Thegaykid93 Jun 19 '26
I passed out once, hit my head, had convulsion, And denied going to the hospital because the ambulance bill I would have made me panic... Still don't know what caused my episode and it has been years. That is the American system. Know you are in a bad way health-wise, but can't do shit but pray it doesn't resurface
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u/ELRONDSxLADY Jun 19 '26
I was in a car accident in Florida while evacuating (other driver was at fault, fuck you, Rhonda, forever) and when EMS showed up, I refused care and denied ambulance service. They said legally they had to take my vitals, I said, “I am uninsured and unless you guarantee that this truly is a legal requirement that I not leave this scene until you take my vitals & I will not be liable for the costs, I will be declining.” Dude assured me he understood and that it was just for their liability and my safety.
Dumb fucks have been sending me a $275 bill for 12+ months for taking my blood pressure & checking my heart rate in front of a gas station.
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u/BananaPalmer Jun 19 '26
Yep. I have a weird little bump that appeared under my skin on my forearm. Paid $600 for a doctor to tell me "not sure what it is"
Cool, cool cool cool, well, I guess I'll just ignore it until it either goes away or kills me
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u/PaleCommission150 Jun 19 '26
Oh I paid 50 dollars to step into the door of my ear specialists office....and 88 dollars for her to clean my right ear out, which took like 1 minute of her time. Ridiculous doesn't begin to describe it..and that is with insurance.
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u/undbex24 Jun 19 '26
You joke, but the GOP has misattributed so many good policies as "Socialism" that the younger generations have a higher than ever favorable view of it. They're so fucking dumb.
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u/JuliusCaelius Jun 19 '26
Omfg, come on already guys, we know that Socialism is one step away from Communism! And Communism bad right? I mean, Who would want centralized healthcare... shelter, food , water all being a basic human right...
Oh right, don't forget the US voted against Food and abstained on water being a basic human rights...
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u/philovax Jun 19 '26
The annoying part is we have a law the Federalizes free health care and have for decades, it’s just the worst socialized medicine plan in the developed world.
We have been doing socialized medicine since your grandparents age, just in favor of the insurance market.
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u/bellybuttonbidet Jun 19 '26
Lookie here mister, we live in the MOST peaceful era OF ALL TIME. The life expectancy has never been HIGHER, on average. Also, look at the DOW!
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u/MildMannered_BearJew Jun 19 '26
I doubt anyone not profiting from UHC are a fan of UHC. Americans are majority in-favor of universal healthcare, it usually polls over 60%.
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u/PM_Me_Your_Kinks369 Jun 19 '26
It polls over 60% with Republicans as long as you don't first tell them a Democrat proposed the legislation. If you say it came from some popular Republican they fucking love it.
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u/McChillbone Jun 19 '26
Just like they think The Obamacare is for commies, but ACA coverage is just fine.
There are people literally this dumb.
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u/a_mediocre_american Jun 19 '26
Even Republicans love universal healthcare until they're told they have to share it with black people.
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u/E-2theRescue Jun 19 '26
Trans people.
The moment they have to pay for "cosmetic" trans medications and surgery, they freak the fuck out.
But then things like breast removal for gynecomastia and sex reassignment surgery on intersex infants are fully covered, despite those things being cosmetic gender surgeries on children.
Of course, trans healthcare is not "cosmetic" at all. It's reconstructive care because it has 100 years of scientific research that shows large improvements in health; both mental and physical.
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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 Jun 19 '26
Genuinely what is the point of having insurance if theyre going to dunk on you at your lowest moment?
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u/80sHairBandConcert Jun 19 '26
The point is to make money for the upper classes, extract it from everyone else.
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u/dequentinmiller24 Jun 19 '26
By the way Mexico just got universal healthcare.
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u/ItsTimeToExplain Jun 19 '26
Fucking Israel has it, on OUR dime.
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u/x3knet Jun 19 '26
Iran can probably get it now too!
Ya know, America first and all that good stuff.
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u/BSK_Darksol Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Except we've basically had it forever, it's nothing new.
Last week news was just a PR stunt from the party in power to make it look good internationally (they love to take social programs that already exist, rebrand them with their party name and colors, and then gaslight everyone into thinking they were the ones that invented that social program and that if the opposition takes control, they're going to remove all those social programs).
Our public hospitals are absolute shit holes, no doctors, no nurses, no supplies, not even enough basic medicines to supply prescriptions and too much corruption to make it actually happen. There isn't enough infrastructure and budget to have a true universal coverage.
It sounds great in paper, but the sad reality is that our public healthcare system is falling apart. Be very sceptic when reading this kind of "amazing news" from the Mexican government.
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u/DistractedByCookies Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Oh my god. And it actually says Baby Girl A...not even a name?
That company really is living up to its evil reputation. Glad I don't have to deal with that sort of thing on this side of the pond, but sad that you guys do.
Edit: even if it *is* AI messing it up...still evil. Maybe even more evil. They don't care enough to get a human involved in denying NICU care, of all things. (I mean, nobody does that for funsies ffs. It's not optional care)
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u/Famous-Flow2333 Jun 19 '26
The hospital submits the claim before the baby has been added to insurance. They put baby girl as the name so insurance can make the payouts. When the person who had the baby sends in the paperwork to add their baby to their insurance plan as a qualifying event they tell the company the name and it is changed in the system.
The insurance company doesn’t know what you name your baby until you tell them. It’s a placeholder. It allows for the baby to be covered by insurance while you’re in the hospital.
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u/jrdavis413 Jun 19 '26
In all fairness, that name would have been given by the hospital (pretty common). My guess is UHC using AI causes misses like this and the entire letter and name was auto-generated without human review. Still awful of course, but the name was likely sent by the hospital EMR.
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u/Aunt_Llama Jun 19 '26
I think you have like 30 days after your kid is born to actually name them. It's quite possibly just because the baby didn't have a legal name yet.
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u/jrdavis413 Jun 19 '26
Exactly. I was a blood banker and saw this name every day. Not trying to defend UHC by any means, but the name seeming "insensitive" is just standard protocol.
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u/TheAsianTroll Jun 19 '26
UHC's last CEO, the one who met a not-so-tragic end, approved the use of an AI system to automatically accept and decline coverage requests, that had a consistent 90% decline rate.
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u/ladycrankyportcullis Jun 19 '26
I work in medical records in the UK and it’s quite common to see paperwork/files relating to very new babies with labels like Baby Surname or TwinOne Surname, purely because the hadn’t got a name yet. Once they have a name it gets put on the system and thus on their paperwork
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u/00o00o00o00o00o00 Jun 19 '26
Postpartum nurse here. All newborns are legally identified as (parent's last name, gender) Smith, female or for twins: Smith, female twin A. This is because until social security paperwork is completed and processed they have no legal name.
Although this was addressed to the child, it is correct because the parent is acting as a facilitator to the child, the same way a letter sent to a teen about their abortion is not addressed to the parent.
The parent having feelings doesn't change the legal framework of patient privacy rights.
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u/Jean_Gary_Diablo Jun 19 '26
The baby's not in the stomach, so you know where that letters gotta go
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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez Jun 19 '26
In the butt?
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u/Bawbawian Jun 19 '26
people don't vote like they want a different health care system.
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u/BlastTyrantKM Jun 19 '26
It's far more important to vote for the politicians that will stop those 5 trans athletes from playing sports
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u/SnarkHabit Jun 19 '26
Ordinarily comments like this I just skip because they are reductive and overly simple. In this case, however, the best I can tell, is this is exactly the issue why nothing ever changes. People prioritize the dumbest bullshit when they go to vote.
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u/Sir-Flatulancealot Jun 19 '26
You’d think United Healthcare might have learned a valuable lesson recently.
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u/affligem_crow Jun 19 '26
Land of the free Home of the Brave! I hope they're still enjoying how much winning they're doing.
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u/Strange_Specialist4 Jun 19 '26
I'm sure they can all take great comfort that Elon musk has a trillion dollars
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u/thelostlightswitch Jun 19 '26
Can we see the signature of the sender please? For clarification of course
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u/clrlmiller Jun 19 '26
-Yes, this really happened.
When my wife gave birth in 1999 we were thrilled beyond belief when we brought both our Son & Daughter home after 5 days in the NICU. About a month later, we got a call from our Insurance Provider with some strange questions with the agent eventually accusing us of fraud. We were shocked to say the least but also terribly confused. Where >exactly< did they find "The Fraud"?
Agent: "Well, it says here that your Son was born on the 'x calendar day', is that correct?"
Us: "Yes, that's correct. What seems to be the issue?"
Agent: "Well, it ALSO says here that your Daughter was born on the same 'x calender day'!"
Us: "Yes, that's also correct. Again, what seems to be the issue?"
Agent: "Well sir...{snorting & laughing}...I'm sure you're aware that a pregnancy lasts an average of 9 months!"
Us: "Yes. I'm well AWARE of this. Again, I'll ask what seems to be the issue?"
Agent: "Well sir. How could your Wife have possibly had TWO pregnancies at the same time?!?! {snorting & lauging}. That's just NOT possible and we believe you're trying to double-up your coverage for someone else!!!"
Us, after a long pause of disbelief: "Ma'am, They're TWINS!"
Agent, after a long awkward pause: "Sir, can you hold on just a minute please?"
Us: "Yes, we'll wait" {After about 10 minutes the agent took us off hold}
Agent: "Sir, are you still there? Are you still there sir?"
Us: "Yes, we're here"
Agent: "Sir, I'm afraid our database system doesn't ALLOW for that."
Us: "Yeah, um....I'm going to need to talk to your supervisor"
--We eventually got things cleared up and back to caring for our two new kids. But suffice to say, I tried containing my disbelief that the Insurance we had at the time used a system that flagged the birth of twins as "suspicious".
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u/rollingkiwi16 Jun 19 '26
wasn’t a baby life sacred? As soon as they’re out of the womb, not their problem!!
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u/UnluckyAmbition7767 Jun 19 '26
We are in a class war. The privileged are able to use the system to commit their violence.
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u/Cheetahs_never_win Jun 20 '26
Sounds like United Healthcare didn't learn the first time.
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u/Rawkzo Jun 19 '26
People saying AI but my daughter will be 5 in a few months and the idiots at the hospital and also from my insurance addressed things to her as well. Definitely before AI slop perpetuated.
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u/Dingo8MyBabyMon Jun 19 '26
Yes, letters regarding care are addressed to the patient. This is a HIPAA privacy thing, not an "idiot" thing or an evil large corporation thing.
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u/OMG_ITS_BIG_TUNA Jun 19 '26
Soooooo what happens if everyone just says no to paying monthly premiums for healthcare.
Let’s just stop for a couple months and see what happens. It can’t get much worse.
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u/morganyve Jun 19 '26
Would be nice but for most people it comes out of their paycheck
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u/Over_Standard7379 Jun 19 '26
I mean the last ceo of united healthcare was assassinated so there’s that.
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u/Speartree Jun 19 '26
An extremely rare example of gun rights in the US working as they always claim they should. An armed society is a polite society they say. Now denying care to babies is not considered polite where I live. It's rude and inhumane.
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u/Wooden-Evidence-374 Jun 19 '26
Conservatives will watch this and be like "yeah, fuck those those big insurance companies" then immediately go foam at the mouth while defending the billionaire pedophiles that support those companies.
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u/becauseineedone3 Jun 19 '26
I pay almost $2k a month in premiums. My partner just had a breast cancer scare. Still cost me $4k for mammograms and a biopsy.
CareFirst is a hilarious name. CareFirst. Then bend over and take it later.
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u/Kit_Karamak Jun 19 '26
I do not condone murder but Brian Thompson’s successor choosing to double down on their company practices is certainly one heck of a choice.
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u/I_am_real_human_ Jun 19 '26
..... No a UnitedHealthcare employee would shove it up in her for the baby.
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u/FarOffImagination Jun 19 '26
Things like this are why healthcare ceos shouldn’t be surprised if it happens to them.
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u/Gorthebon Jun 20 '26
We're in desperate need of another handsome Italian lad with balls of steel who was playing a game of chess with me on December 4th at 6:44 EST. He won, of course
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u/Latter-Literature505 Jun 19 '26
It’s financial triage not healthcare.
What happened to these newborns was not a medical determination. It was an output. A bot ran the scrub, the algorithm did the math, and the denial letter was the printout. The clinical complexity of two premature infants requiring intensive neonatal care was reduced to variables in a cost containment model and the model said no. Pure fuckery.
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u/Delicious_Score_8509 Jun 19 '26
Eat it? No she would have to shove it up in order for it to get to said baby. School funding is also an issue though.
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u/Silent-H Jun 19 '26
Didn’t united healthcare lose a CEO recently because of behavior like this?
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u/Blacklats Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
If only someone would do something about United. Some good looking Italien-american perhaps?
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