Few people appeal rejected medical claims. It’s often worth it.

鲜有人对被拒的医疗保险申请提出上诉。这往往值得。

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2025-02-20

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On today’s show: President Donald Trump denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “a dictator without elections” on Wednesday. Reuters reports that major risks loom as Trump upends U.S.-Russia policy. Who can force out New York City’s mayor? Katie Honan from The City joins to discuss this and more questions. Health insurers deny 850 million claims a year. The Wall Street Journal’s Julie Wernau reports that the few who appeal often win. The Journal also has five steps to take if your health-insurance claim is denied. Plus, Hamas has returned return the bodies belonging to four Israeli hostages that are said to include the Bibas family, the Trump administration has halted a program that provided lawyers to nearly 26,000 immigrant children, and the U.S. and Canada square off in the 4 Nations Face-Off. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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  • Good morning.

  • It's Thursday, February 20th.

  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • This is Apple News Today.

  • On today's show, a couple ways New York City Mayor Eric Adams could lose his job.

  • Why it's worth your time to fight a denied health insurance claim.

  • And in hockey, the United States and Canada, fresh off last weekend's brawl, face off again tonight.

  • But first, almost three years to the day after Russian tanks first invaded Ukraine,

  • President Trump shocked Ukraine and European allies by blaming Ukraine for the war,

  • further straining relations between the US and its NATO and Ukrainian allies.

  • Remember,

  • Ukraine and members of the NATO alliance were already upset

  • that Russia and the United States excluded them from peace negotiations in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday

  • And Trump's lie about how the war started came during a press conference Tuesday evening

  • in response to a reporter's question about how those talks went.

  • Here's the president

  • and I think it's going very well.

  • But today I heard, oh well, we weren't invited.

  • Well, you've been there for three years.

  • You should have ended it.