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Judge recuses himself from health insurance cancer-denial case because he considers the company "immoral" and "barbaric"

US District Judge Robert N Scola recused himself from a class action suit against Unitedhealthcare that alleges that Unitedhealthcare denied them promising proton beam cancer treatments by falsely claiming that they were "experimental." In his recusal, Scola revealed that he was a prostate cancer survivor who was cornered into accepting surgical prostate removal because his own insurer refused the proton beam treatments his doctors recommended; he also discussed a friend whom Unitedhealthcare denied coverage to, presenting him with the prospect of a $150,000 bill (the friend successfully sued Unitedhealthcare). The judge closed by calling Unitedhealthcare's refusal to cover proton beam therapy "immoral" and "barbaric." The untenability of America's private, for-profit health-care system grows more manifest by the day, as more and more people are radicalized by the prospect of their own deaths and the deaths of those they love best in the world, at the hands of a bureaucratic death-panel run by an insurer whose execs and investors rake in millions by literally killing their customers.

 

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