tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36634196.post5736069516388637005..comments2023-10-09T11:33:37.853-05:00Comments on The IN VIVO Blog: Quick Takes from Obama Press ConferenceChris Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04075266444951558159noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36634196.post-47499345589660102782009-06-26T17:56:50.493-05:002009-06-26T17:56:50.493-05:00Come on Ramsey, enough of this leftist propaganda!...Come on Ramsey, enough of this leftist propaganda! If Obama really has a "real and deep understanding of complex health care issues," he'd understand that a government-run plan would be able to set the rates it wants, undermining the whole private system. We all know Medicare underpays compared to everyone else, does Obama?<br />Scott SteinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36634196.post-28637882278680154062009-06-24T16:08:47.029-05:002009-06-24T16:08:47.029-05:00Sheer Window Dressing!!!
Health Insurance Compani...Sheer Window Dressing!!!<br /><br />Health Insurance Companies “Win Big” because high risk people will be directed to the Public Plan...<br /><br />There'll be some kind of competitiveness clause…, and with mandatory insurance the insurers will make out like bandits...!!!<br /><br />WHAT???!!! Universal Health Care has been implemented by ALL other developed countries!!!<br /><br />Here Read: <br /><br />+ Canadian Health Insurance: Lessons for the United States / Government Accountability Office (GAO):<br /><br />--“If the universal coverage and single-payer features of the Canadian system were applied in the United States, the savings in administrative cost alone would be more than enough to finance insurance coverage for the millions of Americans who are currently uninsured.”<br /><br />+ Medical Bills Leading Cause of Bankruptcy, Harvard Study Finds / Consumeraffairs.com<br /><br />--“Surprisingly, most of those bankrupted by illness had health insurance.”<br /><br />+ The Truth About Drug Companies / Mother Jones:<br /><br />“… Angell attacks major pharmaceutical industry -- whose top ten companies make more in profits than the rest of the Fortune 500 COMBINED -- for using “free market” rhetoric while opposing competition at all costs.”<br /><br />Why not Universal Health Care with a $25 deductible after the first annual visit??? <br /><br />Also Read:<br /><br />+ The neutron bomb of health insurance / CNN Money:<br /><br />--“Imagine being insured...and then not being insured. Such situations are on the rise.”<br /><br />“Waiting for an overdue reimbursement check is a hassle. Finding that your health insurance has been nullified after you've incurred serious medical costs can be an outright catastrophe.”<br /><br />“Called "rescissions," … they don't occur in employer-sponsored group plans … the practice appears to be growing.”<br /><br />+ State Tries To Block 'Fishing Expedition' Against Blue Cross / Los Angeles Daily Journal (ConsumerWatchdog):<br /><br />--“When the Schwarzenegger administration in July struck a deal with Anthem Blue Cross that required the insurer to resell medical coverage to dropped policyholders and pay a record $10 million in fines, some attorneys questioned if state regulators had offered the company sweet concessions in exchange.”<br /><br />+ More insurance rescission coverage / LA Times:<br /><br />*An eroding model for health insurance, 2008,<br /><br />--“Working Americans once could rely on employer-based benefits. But more people are being forced into the individual market, where coverage is costly, bare-bones and precarious.”<br /><br />* Former Members Sue Blue Cross, 2006<br /><br />* Anthem Blue Cross sued over rescissions, 2008<br /><br />*Healthcare insurance probe grows, 2008<br /><br />* Health Net ordered to pay $9 million after canceling cancer patient’s policy, 2008<br /><br />* L.A. sues insurer over cancellations, 2008<br /><br />* Doctors balk at request for data, 2008,<br /><br />* Health insurer tied bonuses to dropping sick policyholders, 2007:<br /><br />--“One of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved.”<br /><br />* Complaints spark state hearing on Blue Cross, 2007,<br /><br />* Insurer cited in policy rescissions, 2007<br /><br />* Halted health coverage suit may be far-reaching, 2007,<br /><br />* Doctors, hospitals join Blue Cross suit, 2007:<br /><br />--“The largest organizations representing California physicians and hospitals joined a lawsuit against Blue Cross of California on Thursday, accusing the state's largest health plan of illegally and routinely refusing to pay them millions of dollars for medical care provided to enrollees whose policies were later canceled.<br /><br />* Blue Cross cancellations called illegal, 2007<br /><br />* Blue Cross sued over revoked insurance, 2007<br /><br />* Health plan review may be intensified, 2007<br /><br />* Kaiser Told to Reinstate Coverage, 2006,<br /><br />* Blue Cross Sued Over Claims Refusals, 2006,<br /><br />* Canceled Policies Prompt Lawsuits, 2006,<br /><br />* Garamenda to Probe Blue Cross’ Practices, 2006.<br /><br />THERE’S SO MUCH (MONEY) AT STAKE—IT’S ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU SICK!!!!Michael L. Wagnernoreply@blogger.com