“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope

Image credit: macrovector via Freepik. Article by Duaa Eldeib. ProPublica – September 10, 2025.

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of suicide attempts.

The email took Dr. Neal Goldenberg by surprise in a way that few things still do. As a psychiatrist, he had grown accustomed to seeing patients in their darkest moments. As someone who reviewed insurance denials, he was also well-versed in the arguments that hospitals make to try to overturn an insurer’s decision not to pay for treatment. […]

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