Before Obamacare, the horror stories of how health insurance companies destroyed people's lives were everywhere. Obamacare stopped the most egregious of their war on people's health - but it hasn't stopped. They are finding new and novel ways to make sick people's lives more miserable than they already are.
On another forum I posted about Blue Cross/Blue Shield having plans to limit the amount of anesthesia you got during surgery, Once it because public, they shelved it. This lead off story is about United Healthcare and their secret campaign to save money by limiting care to severely autistic children.
They have a saying in the industry made famous by the assassin of the CEO of United Healthcare of Deny, Defend, Depose as a way to get past claims they don't like.
Is there any wonder about why there was such an outpouring of sympathy for the killer? So many people have be hurt or killed by these vultures. One lady said it best who was at the receiving end of their so-called "care": it went something like "the CEO had no sympathy for my son (who had died as a result of the insurance company's denial of services), so why should I have any sympathy for him?" (To be clear, I don't have any sympathy for the killer myself, but I certainly understand his motivation.)
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Here is the BC/BS link: https://apnews.com/article/anthem-blue- … 20f151a926
by theirishobserver. 11 years ago
At Last - A Patient's Bill of Rights Good afternoon,It seems like everywhere you go in this country, you hear story after story of Americans who have been let down by the private health insurance system. Parents in Texas unable to buy coverage for their infant born with a...
by Scott Belford 7 years ago
OMB Dir Mulvaney said (in referring to the 23 million children, women, elderly, and disabled who will lose, or can't sign up for Medicaid) "We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs or the number of people on those programs, but the number of people we help get off...
by Scott Belford 10 years ago
Why Are Insurers Flocking to Obamacare and Many Rates Coming Down?In the 10 states where data is available, at least 27 new insurers, including some big ones like United Health Care and Aetna, have said they will join, some at lower rates (Aetna at least) than what is currently available. In...
by ga anderson 11 years ago
The gist of the new Congressional Budget Office, (CBO), report on the effects of Obamacare on the U.S. economy is that it will cause a reduction in works hours equivalent to about 2 million jobs by 2017.Here is just one link from a Washington Post story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plu...
by Susan Reid 11 years ago
If you are insured through your employer, the answer is no. If you are an individual or small business owner, please share your thoughts.Did you know there will be online health care insurance marketplaces (exchanges) in every state?Is your state running its own exchange ... ...or is it...
by Barefootfae 11 years ago
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/27/s … s-to-rise/To all those who swore and I am certain will still swear ACA won't raise premiums:Kathleen Sebelius.
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