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My bet is that it’s someone that got stiffed by UHC themself or lost someone close to them. You only have to get prematurely released from the hospital because some representative over the phone says so once for you to see this system is incredibly broken.

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There's not many cases in 2024 where people get denied hospital care because of insurance.

Get stuck with massive crippling bills? Sure. Can't afford insulin? Likely. But if you are at the hospital and your coverage is denied, legally that's the hospital's problem.

They won’t be overt about it, for obvious reasons. I can tell you with certainty though that they’ll do things like discharge you early, try to send you to another facility, etc even if that’s not the medically sound thing to do.

We must be talking about longer stays then. In my experience hospitals are not particularly quick to bill or even inform the insurance company.

Last time my kid was in the hospital, the hospital didn't bill my insurance for 18 months on some items!

It happens all the time in 2024, but it takes the form of pharmacy benefit managers arbitrarily forcing people off effective medications onto cheaper, less effective ones.

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