Meet the Insurance Warrior

An Arm and a Leg

Society & Culture, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Documentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In 2005, Laurie Todd needed surgery to save her life. Her insurance company had no intention of paying for it. She went to war, and won. She's been helping other do the same ever since. Now, she's sharing her secrets with us.

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0:00.0	Hey there.
0:01.1	Lori Todd calls herself the insurance warrior.
0:03.9	She says she has fought and won
0:05.6	more than 200 appeals, life or death cases.
0:09.2	And the first appeal she won was her own.
0:12.3	So the story starts with a medical nightmare, of course.
0:16.7	Lori was in her mid-50s,
0:17.9	working as a massage therapist.
0:19.7	She was in good shape.
0:20.9	And then I started to feel really exhausted.
0:24.2	I mean, so exhausted that you fall asleep in your chair.
0:28.6	Her doctor ran a bunch of tests,
0:30.1	didn't find anything weird.
0:31.3	She said, you have nothing to worry about.
0:34.9	You're the healthiest 55-year-old on the planet.
0:37.9	But Lori kept feeling worse.
0:40.0	A few months later, she went back to the doctor's office.
0:42.5	And she could tell the nurses were freaked out
0:45.1	the second they put their hands on her enlarged abdomen.
0:49.0	They ordered an emergency CT scan
0:50.9	told her to come back the next day she did.
0:53.3	And the doctor, the first thing she did
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