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Healthcare Gender Bias? You Decide.
Does our healthcare system treat women differently than men?
Daly City, California resident Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez woke up with a bleeding breast. Doctors found a tumor and initially told her she had breast cancer. A biopsy later proved that assumption false; the tumor was benign.
But her real shock came when her insurance company, Blue Shield of California HMO, which had initially approved the claim for the emergency room visit, reversed course and sent her a new bill three months later requiring her to pay the total charges for that visit: $2,791.00.
Crazy, you say? Or have you experienced something similar?
Voice your opinion and have your voice heard in the Discussion of the Day.
Daly City, California resident Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez woke up with a bleeding breast. Doctors found a tumor and initially told her she had breast cancer. A biopsy later proved that assumption false; the tumor was benign.
But her real shock came when her insurance company, Blue Shield of California HMO, which had initially approved the claim for the emergency room visit, reversed course and sent her a new bill three months later requiring her to pay the total charges for that visit: $2,791.00.
Crazy, you say? Or have you experienced something similar?
Voice your opinion and have your voice heard in the Discussion of the Day.
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Permalink Reply by Leslie Ann Napolitano/SomaLife on -
As a critical care nurse, I have seen women with mastectomies sent home the same day of their surgery, yet a man with a penile implant would get 2 nights in the hospital. Just the same, insurance used to refuse to pay for birthcontrol, yet would pay for erectile dysfunction products. Many doctors still tend to treat alot of women's complaints as psychosomatic.
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