[Dianna1395]

There are some really messed up insurance companies, but also quite a few good ones. So far, I have been happy with mine.

Many insurance companies go by AMA's Standards of Care. When a red flag is raised, it not just to save them money, but also to make sure the procedure's, meds are necessary, non frivolous and mostly not from a quack.

Wouldn't it look weird, if Joe Blow all of a sudden without a track record of being Trans-Gendered or need goes from just needing an aspirin to estrogen, Spiro, Fin, bottom surgery and implants? A company would wonder if someone has stolen Joe Blow's identity, to wondering if some heinous doctor is just plain experimenting and doing dangerous wasteful procedures.

To save money?? Yes.... To make sure there is NO fraud? Of course. Maybe Gamer is being protected from a quack by his insurance? Something to think about!

Iaboy,
While what you say has some merit, part of the issue is that we're labelled at birth, and that is where the problems start...

I had a whole long thing I was thinking I'd post in a new thread with a linkback, but here it doesn't belong.
The problem is in fact caused by "their" solution. I'd have no cares if it was voluntary, as it used to be, and I was being protected as you suggest. But I am forced to pay for insurance, and then forced to pay out of pocket for the care I receive, up to $10K. That's about $22K I lose every year, off the top, for NOTHING. And I'm hardly unique. For F's sake, that's more than I was looking at just a few years back for catastrophic coverage, and the difference isn't my age or risk levels! Nor a "family" coverage!
If I MUST pay, and they CAN deny, then I'm being extorted. THAT is the rub.

As for checking the meds, confirming it's for the right person, questioning the sudden jump? Not a problem. I'd expect that if it were non-mandatory insurance checking with the doctor, too. Double-checking is a big help, often. Not a concern.

It's the duplicitous theft, and the welcoming, subservient attitudes I see, which offend my sensibilities (I.E., piss me off.)
I had to deal with that all my life, I know the condescending attitudes, and I know the intents and drives behind it. It's NOT our benefit, it's always their profit. It was true with my parents, it was true with my grandparents, it will be truer as this country grows. I want us to evolve away from herd mentalities. I see this (NBE) as part of that drive for freedom and self-realization, and I see the storm clouds coming, too. We can face the storm or we can hide, but there's a storm on each side, and we're getting caught in the middle. It's a pincer movement, an encircling, militarily speaking, and we're in the losing circle.

Here's another (older, 1958) analysis, if anyone is interested...
Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley
Problems are not going away, and "they" are fighting a war of attrition against "us."

Gamer's issues stem from this acceptance of mediocrity, I think. Herd mentality, everyone to be watched and controlled, and categorized and "farmed" for productivity and for money. It's all from the same place.

But I'll shut up and stop derailing the thread, I'm too invested in this, I guess.

-Dianna