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Healthcare Horror Stories: A Chronically Ill Patient's Battle Against His Insurance Company

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"After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims." This healthcare horror story goes into the life of a chronically ill Penn State student, denied by UnitedHealthcare for treatment, and the lies and deception that the company put him through.

Read the full ProPublica article, "UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings." written by David Armstrong, Patrick Rucker and Maya Miller here: https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

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