We have a top-down, centrally-planned, socialist health care system. It's already basically "single payer" with high taxes disguised as "premiums," and the facade of "freedom and capitalism" to make it palatable for RINOs.
And because it's a top-down, socialist system - it's 100% political. Like any socialist system, it depends on politics and optics, and will only move when political pressure is applied to it.
So it's not surprising.
Not insurance. As he said, it was approved but, apparently the hospital could not schedule.
Insurance is not medical services. And, hospital services are not doctors’ services. At least three separate parties answering to three different policies.
I used to work for Kaiser. This is not abnormal or malicious, just typical bureaucratic BS.
Since the ACA (Obama care) health insurance is conducted for the explicit benefit of the health insurance companies, not customers. This is why my health insurance is my passport and a plane ticket. Most places in the world still do traditional healthcare for the benefit of patients.
Sorry Mr. Adams is caught-up with bad actors. No choice I guess if he’s looking to an experimental drug.
Since vaxxed I just take an Ivermectin a week. Lucky so far....
My best wishes and a prayer to Mr. Adams.
Shot out
For 25 years, I worked with their Senior Vice President, National Labor Relations and Office of Labor Management Partnership (OLMP), for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, when he first started work at my manufacturing plant in our mail room in Detroit 50 years ago.
He was a good kid, used our tuition reimbursement program to obtain a Masters degree, then ultimately, a law degree specializing in Labor relations. Rose thru the ranks from the mail room with me, to our labor relations dept., then HR manager, transferred to corporate as labor relations manager then left the company after 25 years to accept positions with better pay and management promotions, finally ending up in Calif. with Kaiser