Jason,
The sad truth is, your insurance would probably pay for you to have surgery right now -- fusion. That is to say, you could get your problem fixed, in an archaic fashion, go back to work, then be right back where you are now when your L3/L4 disintegrates in a few years. Hey, then they can fuse that, too! Lock you up tent pole. By the time you're 50, you won't have those worries about work, or being able to move, and it will be totally irreversible, so you won't have to worry about getting anything fixed, because it will be impossible.
How can this be? As we all know, ADR is FDA approved, (one level). Stan was right, there needs to be a federal statute that bars insurance companies from tagging FDA approved procedures as "experimental". Trouble is, Big Insurance owns the rulemakers. But there is a way.
Your first idea, the part about contacting the media, is it. Only massive public outcry has even a chance of changing the system. As spoken so eloquently in the movie Young Frankenstein, "A riot iss an ugly ting. And I tink it's about time ve had von!"
I too will help in any way possible. We need to expose this for the crime that it is. Maybe everyone that is in this Appeal/Denial Vortex could get together and simultaneously call multiple major media outlets with their story? I'd be happy to contibute to the talking points, since I'm in the process of putting all the arguments to paper anyway for a (pointless) second level appeal. Anyone with thoughts on this?
Cheers,
Dave
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