{"id":33229,"date":"2025-02-13T17:08:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/its-a-money-game-to-them-a-son-takes-on-unitedhealth-over-his-elderly-fathers-care\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:08:54","slug":"its-a-money-game-to-them-a-son-takes-on-unitedhealth-over-his-elderly-fathers-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/its-a-money-game-to-them-a-son-takes-on-unitedhealth-over-his-elderly-fathers-care\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a money game to them\u2019: a son takes on UnitedHealth over his elderly father\u2019s care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robby Martin has joined a lawsuit against UnitedHealth after the insurance giant cut off his father\u2019s nursing home coverage \u2013 five days later his father died at home<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/13\/nursing-home-patients-insurance\">Have you or a loved one experienced UHC coverage denials as a nursing home patient? Share you story.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two years ago, Robby Martin got an unsettling call from his father, Jackie. The 82-year-old told his son that a representative of the insurance giant UnitedHealth Group had barged into his nursing home room at 2.30 in the morning, announcing that he was going to be checked out at the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Martin \u2013 who had been getting rehab at the nursing home after suffering a back fracture \u2013 still could not take more than a few steps without being out of breath.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/13\/unitedhealth-lawsuit-elderly-patients-care\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robby Martin has joined a lawsuit against UnitedHealth after the insurance giant cut off his father\u2019s nursing home coverage \u2013 five days later his father died at home Have you or a loved one experienced UHC coverage denials as a nursing home patient? Share you story. Two years ago, Robby Martin got an unsettling call &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It\u2019s a money game to them\u2019: a son takes on UnitedHealth over his elderly father\u2019s care\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/its-a-money-game-to-them-a-son-takes-on-unitedhealth-over-his-elderly-fathers-care\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It\u2019s a money game to them\u2019: a son takes on UnitedHealth over his elderly father\u2019s care\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}