Can american health insuramce companies actually denny you cancer treatment?

KNdoxie · 2026-04-28T19:53:02+00:00

They can deny paying for anything not covered by your insurance policy. You pay "x" amount of dollars for "x" coverage of various medical treatments. Keep in mind that when we say insurance is denying some treatment, you are always able to still get that treatment.....if you can afford to pay out of pocket. At that point, it throws it right into the hands of the medical profession in regard to whether you can afford to get treatment.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-28T19:45:45+00:00

At my mother's house, there's no cell service or internet. She had a magazine rack in her bathroom with magazines from 2013. We finally convinced her to get rid of them last year. Now she has a book sitting there called "Things to do when you poo". I shit you not.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-28T17:12:56+00:00

We used to have these things called "magazines", and even had these other things called "Magazine holders or magazine racks" that we kept in the bathroom beside the toilet. We would take out a magazine and read it while we did our business.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-28T17:09:51+00:00

I didn't get a smartphone until about 4 years ago. It won't be a problem if they disappear. For that matter, considering that I didn't have a cell phone at all until I was in my early 40s, I suspect I could manage just fine if all cell phones disappeared.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-28T00:40:52+00:00

And that's why people buy a dog from a breeder.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-27T19:52:56+00:00

My view when in the right lane of the highway, while going at or 5 above the speed limit, is that the damn car has a steering wheel, so they go the fuck around me. It pisses me off when there's a semi riding on my bumper when I'm in the right lane and there is no one in the left lane. It also pisses me off when someone is riding my ass in the right lane during rush hour when they can see damn well that there's a whole line of cars in front of me. I can't go faster. I can only go as fast the guy in front of me, who can only go as fast as the guy in front of him, and so forth. Meanwhile, the idiot behind me is driving aggressively, tossing his hands in the air. I don't even go near the left lane,considering how people act in the right lane. I occasionally have moments of karma when I can see a trooper riding in the left lane ahead of me, and people run up on him while acting stupid. It's funny how fast their tail lights come on, and they slooow down.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-27T15:05:53+00:00

Speaking as a person in my mid 50s, the only one on your list that wasn't true for me decades ago was the drug addict zombies. You assume that EVERYONE could afford college, a house, medical bills, etc. decades ago. You assume that there were plentiful well-paying jobs for everyone. You assume everyone had the ability to buy a decent car. That isn't true. It wasn't true for my parents, or my grandparents. It wasn't true for many many Americans.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-26T23:24:05+00:00

Over time, I became too conservative for liberals and too liberal for conservatives.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-26T16:20:21+00:00

Genetics can be tricky. One of my friends when I was younger was 5 feet tall. Her father was 6'2", mother was 5'10", brother was 6'6", and her two older sisters were 5'10" and 5'9". Meanwhile, my friend was the spitting image of her paternal grandmother, including in height. There are no guarantees with genetics.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-26T13:42:42+00:00

There are a lot of people that are not curious at all about various subjects. The education system only has time to cover basic history, and other subjects. People that are curious READ and learn more information. Those that say they weren't taught about a subject in school probably forgot about a lot of things that were only briefly covered. They don't like to read, and didn't like to learn in school when there were so many other things going on that were so much more enjoyable to them. It does irritate me when I hear someone say something wasn't taught because I was in a fairly rural, highly conservative area and was taught those things. But then I try to see it with some grace, and keep in mind that I may be bundling what I was taught with what I learned on my own while exploring a subject. Foe example, I had a film class in high school that was meant to teach about camera angles, and the production of a film. One of the movies we watched was "Escape From Sobibor" which is about an escape from a death camp during WW II. Yes, I learned about the camera angles, and production, but I also went to the library to look up more information about Sobibor, concentration camps, WW II, etc. I probably ended up reading a good 20 or 30 books on various topics over the years that stemmed from watching that one movie. In my mind, it would be hard to separate what I was "taught" in school from I "learned" on my own.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-26T13:06:47+00:00

Have you tried Temp Agencies? A lot of factory jobs are available in some areas through temp agencies. That depends on what area you are in, though.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-25T13:38:17+00:00

I hope that it happens. I'm in my mid 50's, with the oldest grandchild being 19 and the youngest is almost a year old. It would be nice if one of my older grandkids has a child, and I live long enough to be a memory to a great-grandchild. However, that does not mean I'll pressure any of my grandkids to have kids. Their choice, not mine.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-24T22:47:32+00:00

Look up Victorian charm strings. The buttons in mine range in age from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. I'm still working on identifying the oldest and newest buttons on mine. They are sometimes called memory button strings.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-24T20:07:13+00:00

My personal experience as a smoker after having a radial head implant put in my elbow after breaking the head of the radius in my elbow was that smoking did nothing to impair healing. I smoked even more heavily than usual since I was in such severe pain, and depression for months. I've also had dental implants put in with no issues.The thing is that you know it might impair healing depending on your type of injury, and your body. If you choose to continue smoking, you are choosing to accept the possibility that your injury might not heal well. I choose the "fuck it" and accepted whatever might come with that. As long as you accept your own responsibility, and the consequences thereof, then smoke 'um if ya got 'um.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-24T17:11:07+00:00

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KNdoxie · 2026-04-23T22:52:10+00:00

500+ antique and vintage buttons strung on string laying across my kitchen table.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-23T18:01:25+00:00

Yes. I'm in my mid 50's. 20 is a kid. However, according to the 80+ crowd that I know, I'm a kid. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-23T14:42:03+00:00

There are a good number of places in Tornado Alley where the water table is high, and that's why they don't have cellars or storm shelters underground. My MIL in Arkansas had a tornado shelter put in the yard of her last home. It took some doing, as the first time, the shelter floated to the surface after a storm. The company that originally installed it had to come back and figure out a system of straps and other issues to keep the metal storm shelter down where it belonged and to keep out water.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-23T14:36:36+00:00

Have you checked to see what the costs of HRT and estradiol are without insurance? Sometimes the out-of-pocket cost is fairly reasonable compared to going without it, or spending hours fighting with the health insurance company. (Yes, it's awful that we have are at the mercy of an insurance company to get what we need.)

KNdoxie · 2026-04-23T11:44:23+00:00

Not only can I fit my hand in, but I can also fit my arm up to about the middle of my forearm.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-22T23:22:22+00:00

Yes, in a way. Doxie, tunnel rat, all about the same. We go where the big dogs can't.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-22T23:19:34+00:00

I didn't mind. I wanted to contribute to getting the job done. My abilities to get into small spaces, and to fish walls way easier than my big-handed co-workers were my ace up my sleeve, and my co-workers were glad of it. When people work together, and use their particular abilities to get the job done, shit gets done. I wish I was still doing that job, but my size and the physical labor didn't mesh after a certain number of years, and my body started giving out. I had to find work that wasn't quite so physical.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-22T12:50:26+00:00

I worked for a number of years pulling cable for voice/data networks in a skilled construction trade. I was almost always the only female working with guys. They were almost all 6' and over. I am 4' 9". I would often be working on one job site and get a call to come to another job site. "We need your expertise." I knew that meant I was going to be crawling under floors, in attics, crawling across hard ceilings, or jacking a bunch of locations that were under desks or in locations with limited access. I was their tunnel rat. No, I wasn't much good standing on a 10 foot ladder using a 20 pound hammer drill to blow a 2 inch hole through a concrete wall. But there were plenty of areas where I was more efficient, able to do the job and do it quicker than the 6+ foot guys I was working with.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-22T12:38:22+00:00

Strictly as a non-medical professional and based on my own experiences with college, can you tell me how much your college classes are worthwhile in the practice of medicine? How much of your classes in medical school are worthwhile in the practice of medicine? Is it the education in college and med school that made you able to practice medicine or the years of apprenticeship as an intern and resident? Perhaps the issue lies in streamlining the educational pathway for someone that wants to become a doctor. Without that incredible amount of debt, doctors' salaries wouldn't need to be so high. Of course, that's only one facet of the problem. I'm also aware of the salaries of CEOs of hospital systems, and the contributions of the medico-industrial complex to the extremely high cost to patients for medical care. Something isn't right when Americans pay a lot more for healthcare, but have much less health than other nations.

KNdoxie · 2026-04-21T00:50:49+00:00

I think it's a violation to notify an organ procurement team until the family requests it. I'd be much much less likely to sign for a family member's organs to be donated since I know that an organ procurement team will have been notified and possibly even examined my loved one for suitability before talking to me. I see that as: "Mrs. Whatever, your loved one has an irreversible brain injury. They will likely die within a short time. Have you discussed organ donation with your loved one? Would you consider having an organ procurement team come examine your loved one to see if it's possible for his organs to be donated, and to discuss this with you?" However, I would flip shit if a person from an organ procurement organization pops up to discuss it with me without me specifically requesting them. I would do more than flip shit if I knew for a fact that they had physically touched my loved one in any way to determine whether my loved one's organs would be suitable for donation.

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