Maybe he’s talking about Medicare
when he tries to scare us about those “insurance companies”?
I love my insurance company (Intermountain Healthcare). They’ve paid through the nose for me over the last two years. Other than a brief scuffle trying to get a rheumatologist, they been very supportive and helpful through two years of expensive health struggles. They have denied one procedure, recently, and… it turns out they were right. The referred doctor found the problem was another part of my hip.
My wife mentioned yesterday that for all the Obama griping about “insurance companies” the actual insurance that rejects the highest number of claims is….
MEDICARE
They reject 6.85% of claims. Aetna came in close – so I doubt many folks are “glad they met ya Aetna”. But I suspect that many of the rejections in the private insurance come in their Medicare gap insurance – or in other words the “no” originates from government rulings.
Now to the OBVIOUS here… when we are all under the government, who will we compare them too, who will we turn to when they decline us – which they will?
March 10th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
The Canadian doctors will, in a few years, be able to offer full services on a completely private basis including insurance. Big U. S. insurance companies will write international policies not legal domestically, but so what! Money will flow out as if you were an illegal immigrant sending cash home to mama. Vancouver, Winnipeg, Sault Ste. Marie, Toronto, and Montreal medical centers will replace UCLA/USC, Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins, even Bethesda as the places to be. Military retirees will go there too under TRICARE like they can do now. Screw Obama!
March 11th, 2010 at 8:16 am
I’d still prefer to go to a GOOD hospital 1 mile from my house – like I can now.
And I like the last sentence. I agree completely!