This LA Times Article linked to the title says it all....the Snippet Below just tells a piece of the story, at some point it will be revealed of the Millions of Dollars of Stolen Care in this Country, the people without Insurance are as Vulnerable as those with Insurance....
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"But documents obtained by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and released today show that the company's employee performance evaluation program did include a review of rescission activity.The documents show, for instance, that one Blue Cross employee earned a perfect score of "5" for "exceptional performance" on an evaluation that noted the employee's role in dropping thousands of policyholders and avoiding nearly $10 million worth of medical care.
WellPoint's Blue Cross of California subsidiary and two other insurers saved more than $300 million in medical claims by canceling more than 20,000 sick policyholders over a five-year period, the House committee said.
"When times are good, the insurance company is happy to sign you up and take your money in the form of premiums," Stupak said. "But when times are bad, and you are afflicted with cancer or some other life-threatening disease, it is supposed to honor its commitments and stand by you in your time of need.
"Instead, some insurance companies use a technicality to justify breaking its promise, at a time when most patients are too weak to fight back," he said."
4 comments:
Wow! We've known this, but it is interesting to get the inside story. An exceptional rating for finding ways to cut people off.
I have the same question I asked Baucus--
How do you sleep at night?
How DO they sleep @ night?
enigma4ever,
It saddens me greatly that health insurance companies engage in this immoral, outrageous practice. It sickens me (and I mean that quite literally) that health insurance companies work so hard to limit or deny coverage to people to increase their profits. It is wrong.
Jeanne
jeanne,
sadly it is the way of it-
30 Million are currently living without HC, because Insurance has cancelled or denied care, 500,000 are currently fighting cancer- already cancelled by insurance- which means they are fighting the disease with lack of treatment, or only paying for what they can, and also means they living in medical debt or using savings and their sale of homes to pay for care....
Also sadly those cancelled are those battling chronic illness or even those that have known diseases- basically discarded because they are less than perfect...it is not morally an acceptable message- that we are letting people be treated like that while others here have such wonderful care....
But such care also should be so over priced and only available to some- all people should have access to it.
Fran:::
I would love to know how any of them sleep at night...or look in the mirror...not just baucus...
I watched the markup on cspan last night...wow...
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