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We buried my older brother in April because his Advantage plan denied
a life saving surgery for his leukemia. He needed a total thyroidectomy, removal of the entire thyroid. Something about the thyroid gland was messing up his medication for his leukemia. They kept denying his surgery even after his doctors pleaded his case.