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Jan. 10, 2025 - The David Knight Show
09:12
Doctor Stops in the Middle of Surgery Because United Health Care Denied Payment
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Remember UnitedHealthcare?
The CEO shot in the back.
And it turns out that it's the number four on the Fortune 500 company list.
They make so much money.
And they are by far and away the leader in terms of the percentage of claims that they reject.
Well, UnitedHealthcare was slammed by a doctor.
for denying a cancer patient's surgery while she was on the operating table.
Dr. Elizabeth Potter, a plastic surgeon in Texas, claims performing breast reconstructive surgery on a breast cancer survivor when she received a phone call in the operating room.
Mid-surgery, Dr. Potter was allegedly told to contact UnitedHealthcare right now about the patient on the operating table Forcing her to stop the surgery and take the call.
She said on a TikTok video, she said, I was like, do you understand?
She's asleep right now and she has breast cancer?
And the gentleman said, I don't actually.
That's a different department that would want that information.
She said, I've never had this happen before.
It's out of control.
Insurance is out of control.
I have no other words.
Well, I have a word.
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you that you would be in the middle of doing a surgery, but because you're not going to get your money, you're just going to let this person suffer?
You know, some doctors do charity work.
Evidently not Dr. Elizabeth Potter.
She's not going to make an exception.
She's either going to get her money or she's not going to do it.
Is she any better than UnitedHealthcare?
I don't think so.
It's all about money, and you've got doctors that are just as greedy as the health insurance companies.
And that's the problem with our health care.
And she doesn't even see it.
That's how blind she is to this.
So, a company spokesman for UnitedHealthcare responded to Daily Mail, who wanted comments.
They said, there are no insurance-related circumstances that would require a physician to step out of surgery.
And it would create potential safety risks if they were to do so.
We did not ask, nor would we ever expect a physician to interrupt patient care to answer a call.
And we will be following up with a provider and the hospital to understand why these unorthodox actions were taken.
This is just greed all around.
And if you look at her, she's a very young person.
She probably just started her medical practice.
And she's all about the money.
I guess that's why she got into medicine, right?
By the time she's gone to medical school and done her residency and stuff like that, that's about the age that somebody would be just getting started out.
Without insurance, this reconstructive surgery would cost anywhere from $30,000 to $50,000.
And she's just going to stop the operation right in mid-operation if she doesn't get paid that.
One pediatric neurology nurse on Reddit said the company has allegedly denied anti-seizure medications for children with epilepsy.
Now we're back to the insurance company.
The nurse wrote that we have UnitedHealthcare deny seizure medications that we can definitively tell will benefit patients based on their EEG results.
And they say because it's not UHC's preferred medication.
She said the patient has to fail the preferred medication first.
And by fail, this means that the patient has to have a load of seizures.
So these kids have to seize their brains out to get medication that we know will control their seizures.
Well, let's talk about that.
You know, we had in Texas, there is no medical marijuana law.
But they do have an exception for seizures, for children having brain seizures.
And we know that a lot of times these brain seizures have been caused as a reaction to vaccines.
David Simpson, who is an excellent state representative that I interviewed multiple times, a very strong Christian who tried to stop marijuana prohibition because he wanted people to be able to use this for health issues.
And he said, I have two sets of parents in my district.
who at the time had gone to Colorado where medical marijuana was legal and he said they've tried everything for their children they just have constant seizures like she's talking about here and the only thing they found that worked was marijuana and he said so they can either move to Colorado which they can't do or they can run the risk of going to jail and having their child taken away if they give them medical marijuana here and he made the case And he got that exception,
even though they don't recognize marijuana as a medical thing anywhere else.
But here's the thing.
Just like UnitedHealthcare, well, they say, you're going to try, before you can have the medical marijuana, you have to document that you've tried every other pharmaceutical intervention and that it didn't work.
So just like UnitedHealthcare.
It's just they've got a different agenda.
They want to push.
The CIA's war on drugs, and that's their agenda, whereas UnitedHealthcare wants to push the pharmaceutical drugs.
And in both cases, they're willing, eventually at some point in time, to let people have access to something that will help them, these children.
But in the meantime, they're going to let them suffer seizure after seizure.
In many cases, it will cause issues, damage the kids.
As people are looking at the upcoming trial of Luigi Mangione, they said, could fandom cause jury nullification in his trial?
And of course, that's what happened with O.J. Simpson.
You had people who liked O.J. Simpson, and they gave him a pass on murder.
You know, in the civil trial, he was found guilty.
So I believe that was a case of jury nullification.
And that could be the same type of thing that happens with Luigi.
People are looking at it and saying, you know, it's not that they think that he didn't do it.
They think he did it, and they're okay with it.
It kind of reminds me of what, I think it was Adams, John Adams, that said, you know, we've got a form of government that only works and is only suitable.
If you have a moral people, if you've got people who have no morality, that they would allow somebody to be shot in the back because of the grievances that they have with this insurance company or whatever.
People are going to come after jury nullification, which is a very, very important check on the power of government.
It is the most important check that we have on the power of government.
If the government is going to haul you into court for some, Unjust law, some unconstitutional law, or if the penalty that you would have to pay if you're found guilty is too high, the jury has the duty to nullify that law.
But what the jury would be doing here is nullifying laws against murder, and that is not just.
And so it's sad to see that, but that's the kind of thing that happens after people have You know, jettisoned the morality that is involved with it.
Meanwhile, Kevin Lynn reveals a crisis that U.S. doctors are being denied jobs as foreign graduates flood hospitals.
So you've got engineers who are software engineers who are getting out of college and between artificial intelligence and between H-1B visas, they can't get a job.
Even if they've got a perfect 4.0 grade point average, even if they're coming from a name-brand college, they can't get a job.
And now you've got U.S. doctors being denied jobs as foreign graduates are coming in and flooding the hospitals.
So, is the greed situation going to get any better with this?
No.
You've got people who are coming here.
Why?
Because they want to make a ton of money.
And you've got corporate hospitals who are hiring them.
Why?
Because they want to make a ton of money.
Where does the patient come in in any of this?
Nowhere.
Nowhere at all.
That's right, boys and girls.
There's a post-election sale on silver and gold.
Trump euphoria has caused a dip in silver and gold.
It's time to buy some medals with fiat dollars before they come to their sense is.
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