Another Day, Another Insurance Company Playing God.

Cigna just denied a life-saving lung transplant to a man who was literally on his way to the hospital. Bags packed. Flight booked. Doctors ready. His life—possibly hours from being saved.

And then boom. Denied. Not because it wouldn’t help. Not because it wasn’t necessary. But because some algorithm said no.

This is why I post. Why I scream. Why I won’t shut up about insurance being a threat to public health.

Cancer patients. Transplant patients. Chronic illness patients. Doesn't matter. The script is the same:

You're approved until you’re not. You’re covered until someone in a cubicle decides you aren’t.

And then you're dead.

I’ve met too many people who ran out of time arguing with a phone tree. We don't have a healthcare system. We have a claims denial industry dressed up as one.

This story matters because it’s not rare. It’s not shocking. It’s typical. If you’re lucky enough to not know this pain yet, congrats. But don't get too comfortable. Because it’s coming for all of us.

The takeaway? Cigna, and companies like it, are not in the business of care. They're in the business of avoidance.

Until we treat this as the emergency it is, people will keep dying from preventable bullshit.

And no, I’m not interested in “both sides.” There are no both sides when the other side is letting people suffocate to protect shareholder value.

SOURCE ➡️ https://abc7.com/post/cigna-insurance-denies-santa-monica-man-life-saving-lung-transplant-he-was-preparing-fly-cross-country-procedure/16361710/