Daily Maverick - Collusion to exclude Long Covid - the long history of energy limiting disability denial by insurance firms

quote:

We must go back more than five decades to understand how the venal back-scratching politics of one cabal of powerful men in the global medico-industrial complex led to what one British MP has called “one of the biggest medical scandals of the … century”.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-07-17-collusion-to-exclude-long-covid-the-long-history-of-energy-limiting-disability-denial-by-insurance-firms/

ETA: corrected link

 

It links to this earlier piece I’ve just listened to:

“Exhausting the exhausted – how employers & insurers cruelly add to the burden of Long Covid” (May 2023) by Sam Pearce

Focuses on a man with Post Covid & Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

Insurers hope people will give up

Audio version available

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...rers-cruelly-add-to-the-burden-of-long-covid/

 

It’s good if the issue is highlighted. But like a lot of articles, it doesn’t explain the mechanism as to how having CBT and/or GET seen as safe and effective allows disability insurance companies turn down claims (saying patients need to try CBT and/or GET before they will pay) which then leads to some claimants giving up which saves insurance companies potentially a lot of money. I tried to do it in the first post in this thread:
“How payments from insurance companies might potentially bias proponents of CBT and/or GET for ME/CFS (such as the PACE Trial investigators)”

https://www.s4me.info/threads/how-p...fs-such-as-the-pace-trial-investigators.8066/
which includes a link to someone describing how Peter White did this to them:

 

So, when I try the link, I find several other articles, but nothing related to the quote. Could someone direct me to the correct article? Thank you!!!

 

oh, I'm sorry. Think I linked to the front page when this was top story. This link should get you to the article

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-07-17-collusion-to-exclude-long-covid-the-long-history-of-energy-limiting-disability-denial-by-insurance-firms/

 

Thank you very much, @Kalliope

Cheers!