Insurer Dropped Sick Patients to Save Money

Well if the state attorney general allows this behavior from such a pirate then I guess we have no other accord to help defend ourselves from such a rippoff artist as this insurance co. Shall not be long I assume before american people will start taking laws into thier own hands because we cannot depend on oue state governments to protect us from such unsavory pirates in our society.

And Republicans say that healthcare does not need any governmental oversight.

No this is not right but to say this is a good reason to make the goverment do health insurance. Why dont we close the loop hole in the states that this happens. The reason the price of medical coverage is so high is the same reason america loses jobs and billions of dollars a year to another country. Illegal immagriants. If you take them out of the the country you would not have the hospitals closing. the hospitals would not have to write off billions of dollars a year that they cant get back since the illegals move around every couple months. Oh and the argument of they do jobs american won’t. They would if you wouldnt pay them to sit at home on they behinds. If they cant afford to live on those jobs maybe we should to put a minimum annual salary by the federal goverment and if you dont make over a certian amount the federal goverment will give you the rest. oh ya why would we do that it would give them no reason to vote for the democrats and the war on poverty which will never be over.

I feel bad for anyone that has to face cancer. However, I would like to know more about this pre-existing heart condition. If she knowingly did not disclose a condition, then who is the “rip off” artist? What company wouldn’t check to see if they were they victims of fraud. I can tell you that the government does not have the best track record in this department. Is it possible to imagine fake clinics treating dead patients and collecting huge somes of money from the government for it? I can see it happening – always a “rip off artist” somewhere. A government controlled health care would be a disaster. What have they done to prove to you that they efficiently manage money. Is it our bankrupt Social Security or our trillion dollar war? I do not work for an insurance company, I believe in our court system to punish wrong doers – on either side of the fence.

Well you can besure of one thing…If Congress try’s to fix the problem BUSH and the REPUBLICAN THUGS will VETO any action Congress takes..Take this to the bank..

For those who use the ‘pre-existing condition’ to justify the acts of this insurance company, here’s a heads-up. If you have a policy for a time and a condition is discovered for the FIRST time which had taken LONGER than the policy was in effect to develop, the Insurance companies often claim it was a pre-existing condition and deny benefits. Insurance companies are in the business of making PROFITS. So are most hospitals and doctors and other health-care providers. Until the profit motive is removed, we’ll see cases like this more and more often as costs continue to climb.

This is a prime example of the consequences of selfish thinking. When one starts to think of how to get themselves ahead, such events are bound to happen.

Four years ago I had surgery on my upper spine, neck area, for ruptured disks. Around three months later I received a letter from my insurance company informing me they wanted me to reimburse them for the actual surgery, but did not mention the medical care before or after. I wrote back to say basically hell no. That was the last I heard from them on the subject. They did start to pay my medical bills very slowly from then on. As soon as I was eligible for Medicare I dropped this over priced coverage. I don’t know why I should pay nearly $600 a month for insurance and then they request repayment for anything. It struck me as rather ridiculous. Maybe some feel they are obligated and pay them. Of course they made no mention of saying no, in any form, in their request letter.

This insurer should be prosecuted; insurance companies want exorbitant fees for their services yet try anyway they can to not pay out. God have mercy on the soul of the employee who dropped this woman for a few bucks. It is disgusting how people treat each other!

“Grand theft” by HMOs is not reported by the U.S. media; that’s where media’s big profits come. Just take note of health insurance and drug company ads on radio and TV, in newspapers and magazines, including AARPs publications. The greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthiest 2%–not only in the history of the U.S., but of the world–began when Reagan/Bush slashed the 15 tax brackets to the present number. The “grand for a few take” has exploded since. In 1996,the former CEO of OxfordHealthPlans,Stephen Wiggins,took as “compensation” $111,900,000.00,OneHundredElevenMillion
NineHundredThousandDollars.Then Wiggins resigned. In that same year,Oxford’s David Snow took $34.3 million;William Sullivan took $28.3 million; Robert Smoler took $24.1 million.

A maze of uniformed, Fox couch educated citizens running their mouth on a subject they know absolutely nothing about. Abominable, provincial ignorance.
Go live in any developed western society, use the gov’t controlled medical system there and then make the claim of the ‘superiority’ of the great rip called the American Health Care System.

I’m sorry, I credited the above statement to the wrong person. Samatha did not make that statement, VA did, and I apologize to Samatha.

Yup, although Great Britain and other countries have a few issues with over stretched national health care and waiting lists, I would still choose this over private insurance any day of the week. You have to understand that when people go on wait lists it’s because they don’t have something that’s critical. Everyone is prioritized and guess what, if you really want it done quickly why not pay to go private with all the health insurance money you haven’t had to pay?!
Americans have long been hoodwinked into believing that they get better care for their money.

After talking to several conservatives who think national health insurance would be nothing less than evil, I finally figured out why they think this way. They are proud to be paying their monthly health insurance premium. It is a symbol of their rugged individualism, that they’ve pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and take care of and are responsible for only themselves. And they’re petrified that the taxes that would go toward national health insurance would help pay for someone who didn’t deserve it or work hard enough for it. They can’t stand the idea of any of their money going toward someone who may have less than they do or might not have worked as hard as they do, but who would get the same benefits. All having access to the same health care flies in the face of their world view that we all reside at different levels depending on our resourcefulness, and money is the equivalent of virtue. To the most deserving and virtuous goes the better health care. It is to them a priviledge, not a right.

quality health care should be a right
not a priviledge. and i mean birth
right. for the working class the
employer must have employee health
care insurance.before he can hire
anybody and there is no deductibles
it should cover a family of four.
i think every business should pay
a health care tax into a national
pool.that would be managed by private
interprise.
and if the company outsouce fine them
and put that money into health care -
pool. and there should be a pay-
scale for health specialist. they
can’t get no more then what the scale
pay. a merit board make the decisions
no unions. and there will be a bonus
for quality work. and the pool will
be self insured.