I don’t know their situation but common tactics are to deny claims hoping that the patient will either die or find other funding options. This is an entire industry:
Individuals can’t fix these problems at scale: it needs something like a government investigator with subpoena power and the ability to directly fine executives. As long as people make more money by denying care, they’re just going to keep finding ways to do so.
Just because it mandates coverage doesn't mean it mandates any treatment be provided in every case.
Certain expensive chemo drugs will get denied unless cheaper options are tried first, if they're used off-label or experimental. Some won't be approved until surgery, at too early a stage or if tests don't indicate elevated risk factors.
What you do is you deny it over and over and give a confused old woman the run-around until she's so exhausted she decides it's literally easier to die than to continue fighting. Ask me how I know.
> The affected devices even included one that was in Airplane Mode and another that was kept in a Faraday cage
> The officials hypothesize that an iPhone running iOS 18 can send signals that make nearby units reboot if the device has been kept disconnected from cellular networks.
Either the officials are storing multiple devices in 1 cage, don't understand Faraday cages, or are arguing in bad faith.
> In October of 2024, multiple users of iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max units reported that their devices kept restarting themselves for no apparent reason. This is a known issue that occurred during normal use and one that Apple fixed with the iOS 18.1 update.
> This timeframe would also align with the creation of the alleged law enforcement document. Specifically, the document says that three iPhones with iOS 18.0 were brought into a forensics lab on October 3, after which they rebooted themselves.
I agree it is very unlikely. And I don't think you are proposing this is the case, but for the sake of argument. However, wouldn't it still be rather easy to verify? Faraday cage just helps with isolation and filters out the noise, so you can analyze a smaller set of data, in this case meaning you have to parse through less signals/data. But you would still be able to pinpoint this. If you can just monitor ultrasound, filter out what isn't easily explained/common (like background background radiation is to the universe).
To verify the original claim that it could happen over BLE, you don't need a faraday case to verify or prove this. The faraday cage just allows you to cut down on the data/signals to analyze.
How does that happen? AFAIK the ACA mandates coverage for cancer treatment for almost all plans.
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