Watch this story about how health insurance companies, particularly United HealthCare, fucks over people:
And if that doesn't make you want to chip into the Luigi Mangione legal defense fund, you might want to ask why that's so.
Monday, January 12, 2026
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When I was in the rehab hospital after my stroke, I didn't have any insurance as I had missed the open enrollment for the Kaiser insurance offered by my new-ish job, so I felt stressed over whether my MediCal would be approved. As it turns out, it always takes 120 days so I needn't have been worried, but nobody ever got around to telling me that at the time. The two months after a stroke are the crucial recovery time, and the progress made then will determine your functionality basically for the rest of your life.
I say I felt stressed, but I also watched some of my fellow patients waste precious near-term recovery time fighting with their insurance companies for each day of care they received, and one get shuffled off to a SNF for lack of anywhere else to go. I was hella lucky, as it turns out, but not everyone else was. This was pre-ACA, by the way, so I don't know if the insurance companies are still allowed to be so brutal, but from what I've seen lately, they are.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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