In a new poll, 69 percent of respondents put a “great deal or moderate amount” of blame on healthcare coverage denials.and expressions of “Schadenfreude,” in the words of one woman who had battled an insurance company to secure treatment for her mother’s cancer.
Citing the findings of a company doctor — who was an obstetrician-gynecologist, not an oncologist — Blue Cross ruled the treatment was “experimental, investigational, and unproven,” even though it is routinely prescribed for cancer patients.that the NORC poll included a nuance that was “sorely lacking in major media coverage” after Thompson’s death, which at times suggested that people who acknowledged the insurance industry’s deadly practices were “supporting” the fatal shooting.
“As the NORC poll shows, the vast majority of people know that, yes, of course murder is wrong — they just also happen to think there’s more to the story than that,” he continued.