Rhian Lubin
@rhilubin.bsky.social
Senior US reporter & features writer @the-independent.com covering general news, politics & real-life stories. I am interested in stories about the health insurance industry.
Maybe it's because I was lucky enough to grow up in a country with free, public healthcare. But I am never not stunned by these cases.
Please get in touch if you have a story to share.
Please get in touch if you have a story to share.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Maybe it's because I was lucky enough to grow up in a country with free, public healthcare. But I am never not stunned by these cases.
Please get in touch if you have a story to share.
Please get in touch if you have a story to share.
The insurance company reversed the decision following media coverage.
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Mom unable to get treatment for 1 of 2 boys with rare disorder gets major update
Exclusive: Hunter Small, 10, was initially denied gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy after his brother Noah, 9, received treatment
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November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The insurance company reversed the decision following media coverage.
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In September, I reported on two brothers with the same genetic disorder - but only one of them was given life-altering treatment, while the other was denied.
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Brothers have the same genetic disorder. Insurance only covered treatment for one
Exclusive: Alison Joseph's sons Noah and Hunter both have Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She tells Rhian Lubin the heartbreaking reality of watching one thrive while the other suffers
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November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In September, I reported on two brothers with the same genetic disorder - but only one of them was given life-altering treatment, while the other was denied.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Another story about a heart transplant patient who can't afford her medication after her insurer hiked the price was read by nearly 400,000 people.
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An organ donor gave her his heart. She can’t afford the medicines to keep it beating
Exclusive: A heart transplant recipient tells Rhian Lubin how she feels a health insurance company is ‘gambling’ with the gift of life from her donor: ‘If they let me go into rejection, they’re not ju...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Another story about a heart transplant patient who can't afford her medication after her insurer hiked the price was read by nearly 400,000 people.
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I am never not shocked by the health insurance nightmares people have shared since I moved to the US a year ago.
This one was one of the toughest interviews I've ever done. Thank you to this mother for baring her soul and her doctor for speaking to me.
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This one was one of the toughest interviews I've ever done. Thank you to this mother for baring her soul and her doctor for speaking to me.
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I was forced to carry my baby for a week after he died. Where’s the humanity?
EXCLUSIVE: 'I've already lost my baby and now this,’ a Nevada mother tells Rhian Lubin of the agony she endured after losing her son at 18 weeks, compounded by a health insurance company’s initial dec...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I am never not shocked by the health insurance nightmares people have shared since I moved to the US a year ago.
This one was one of the toughest interviews I've ever done. Thank you to this mother for baring her soul and her doctor for speaking to me.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
This one was one of the toughest interviews I've ever done. Thank you to this mother for baring her soul and her doctor for speaking to me.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...