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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoctors getting paid to deny SS claims
I knew somebody would get rich with Trump's cruel SS games that will fuckup people's lives...
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/01/06/tennessee-doctors-disability-claims/1077220002/
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Doctors getting paid to deny SS claims (Original Post)
I_UndergroundPanther
Dec 2019
OP
Same as company doctors denying disability for work related injury... it sucks....nt
mitch96
Dec 2019
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ck4829
(35,077 posts)1. Disgusting
dchill
(38,505 posts)2. The exact opposite of helping.
Trumpianic.
Doctor, my ass.
MasonDreams
(756 posts)3. We gotta change big soon. WTF we are victims of their Holocaust.
Money worshipping scum. They don't need ovens and gas chambers. They just spew carcinogenic and general biohazard shit into the air, land, and water then tell us there's no $. We spent it bombing Afghanis and Iraqis even though we can't tell who are friends and who are foe.
mitch96
(13,912 posts)4. Same as company doctors denying disability for work related injury... it sucks....nt
progree
(10,909 posts)5. In fiscal year 2018, he reviewed -- on average -- one case every 12 minutes. (80% denial rate)
In fiscal year 2018, he (Dr. Thomas Thrush) reviewed on average one case every 12 minutes.
Thrushs productivity has paid off. He earned $420,000 for reviewing the applications of 9,088 Tennesseans applying for disability during the year ending June 30. He has made more than $2.2 million since 2013.
On average, 80 percent of the cases he reviewed were denied.
Thrushs productivity has paid off. He earned $420,000 for reviewing the applications of 9,088 Tennesseans applying for disability during the year ending June 30. He has made more than $2.2 million since 2013.
On average, 80 percent of the cases he reviewed were denied.
Archae
(46,337 posts)6. What bothers me is Thrush's record.
He's a cocaine addict, and was busted, TWICE for it.
No wonder he was so fast.
Would you trust a doctor like that? I sure as hell wouldn't.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)7. It would be better if you referred to SSDI, not just SS.
Otherwise, it can be confusing to people.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)8. Ok my bad
Didn't know it could confuse people.