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Ed Pawlowski

On 4/10/2016 6:59 PM, wrote:

>
> I have mentioned this before but my cousin, when they were living and
> working in San Francisco with top rate health care included (only way
> the US company could get them there) found a lump on her breast. She
> went to the doc, he agreed there was a lump but thought she should
> wait a month to see if it enlarged.
>
> She was uneasy and they decided she would go home and see what their
> doc in England said. She had a mastectomy and the doc said waiting a
> month would have been cutting it very close. When back in SF and
> seeing her doctor to give him her files she asked why on earth he had
> said wait a month to see. He said that is what the insurance company
> wants him to do.
>
> She and I both feel we want doctors, not insurance clerks, calling the
> shots for us medically.
>

I've heard stories like that but we use a medical group that does not do
that at all. You move along as determined by the doctor and they have
never cared about what the insurance says. There are stories of
incompetence on both sides of the border.