Stat News: Tuller & Lubet: The medical community is changing its mind on chronic fatigue syndrome. Why aren’t insurers?

[Inara]

@ScottTriGuy I believe that Dr Hyde has written about those events before. As I recall it he previously went further on the subject of his discussions with McEvedy, which took place over a bottle of whisky. There was a suggestion of links of Beard to the insurance industry. It would be interesting to see if this is repeated and, if so, one wonders whether there are contemporaneous notes of the conversation.

Out of interest, do you have a link at hand?

 

[chrisb]

Out of interest, do you have a link at hand?

I thought that the reference was in the Little Red Book
www.imet.ie/imet_documents/BYRON_HYDE_little_red_book.pdf
in which he refers to the meeting in the section starting at p10. I see that this does not include the comments about Beard. I shall have to look further for the source of those.

 

[Alvin]

The first thing i thought when i saw the thread title is insurance companies aim to maximize profit by denying benefits, in our case its easier because the view was our disease was fake but they try to do this for every disease, they hire people to follow around likely everyone who makes a claim from workplace injuries to genetic diseases. There are sporadic stories all over of people being thrown off benefits for flimsy reasons with no recourse
In the end a better solution is a non biased third party that hears appeals without the cost of the legal system and makes binding rulings instead of insurance companies being judge, jury and executioners. Still not perfect especially in our case where the establishment view was coordinated fraudulence but better then foxes guarding hen houses.
But even then its a patient who is ill vs a Goliath company with razor toothed lawyers, still an unequal playing field, just slightly less unequal...