Well, consider how my original post articulates how the real Health Crisis is looming on the horizon, and it's going to arrive when our bought and paid for Politicians implement their new strategy... You know what I'm saying... What a funny coincidence--20 years ago the Medical Industry was composed of ruthless barbarians, and today the gene responsible has transferred itself to the Politicians... Sort of like we're all hoping the swine flu virus doesn't mutate, right???!!! Here Read: + The neutron bomb of health insurance / CNN Money: --“Imagine being insured...and then not being insured. Such situations are on the rise.” “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.” “Called "rescissions," … they don't occur in employer-sponsored group plans … the practice appears to be growing.”
+ State Tries To Block 'Fishing Expedition' Against Blue Cross / Los Angeles Daily Journal (ConsumerWatchdog):
--“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.”
+ More insurance rescission coverage / LA Times: *An eroding model for health insurance, 2008, --“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.” * Former Members Sue Blue Cross, 2006 * Anthem Blue Cross sued over rescissions, 2008 *Healthcare insurance probe grows, 2008 * Health Net ordered to pay $9 million after canceling cancer patient’s policy, 2008 * L.A. sues insurer over cancellations, 2008 * Doctors balk at request for data, 2008, * Health insurer tied bonuses to dropping sick policyholders, 2007: --“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.” * Complaints spark state hearing on Blue Cross, 2007, * Insurer cited in policy rescissions, 2007 * Halted health coverage suit may be far-reaching, 2007, * Doctors, hospitals join Blue Cross suit, 2007: --“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. * Blue Cross cancellations called illegal, 2007 * Blue Cross sued over revoked insurance, 2007 * Health plan review may be intensified, 2007 * Kaiser Told to Reinstate Coverage, 2006, * Blue Cross Sued Over Claims Refusals, 2006, * Canceled Policies Prompt Lawsuits, 2006, * Garamenda to Probe Blue Cross’ Practices, 2006. Also read: BBC Reports GlaxoSmithKline Paid Academics to Fudge Data on Child Paxil/Suicide Link / Mother Jones Here's an idea--instead laying blame on me (for killing people???!!!), why don't you write to your favorite newspaper editor and ask him/her to task his/her favorite reporter with doing some research and writing an article on the subject??? Oh, oh--don't forget to mention the fact that such an endeavor might prove hazardous to his/her health!!!
Edited 10/22/2009 7:01 pm ET by MichaelLWagn | 
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