[jrflowers]

> Alas, I guess "big company vs plucky surgeon in social media spat" is a simple script that requires no work

> UHC's spokesperson makes a big show of saying there are "no insurance-related circumstances that would ever require a physician to step out of surgery" and they would "never ask or expect that." Happens all the time actually

You make a good point. UHC has said something that, according to your direct knowledge, is patently untrue, and yet this article contains nothing accusatory against the surgeon that said something contradictory to the statement that you assert is completely wrong.

If one party says something wrong and another party contradicts them, reporting that is a failure of journalism becau

[gruez]

> [...] reporting that is a failure of journalism becau

well? Don't leave us hanging!

[jrflowers]

Well as mitchelist points out we don’t even know what claims were made. The third paragraph of this article reads

> On Jan. 7, a plastic surgeon named Elisabeth Potter posted a video of herself on Instagram claiming that UnitedHealthcare called her mid-surgery and asked her to justify an in-patient stay for a woman who has breast cancer and needed a surgical procedure to treat it. Potter then claimed that the insurer denied the patient an overnight stay and threatened her with legal action for her posts.

Are these claims? What does “surgical procedure” mean? In what way is she using the word “denied”? It says UHC threatened her with legal action for her posts but, as mitchelist has surmised, we don’t know what she said or if she said anything at all.

While the article articulates exactly what the surgeon said about UHC and links directly to her video of her saying it [1]… does it? Who knows what’s going on? I’d write more here but I am using speech to text because my dominant hand is stuck inside a jar of honey and my wife’s cries of “stop making a fist” (whatever that means) are getting picked up by my microphone.

1 https://www.instagram.com/p/DEid-1npNbA/?hl=en