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Subject: COURANT: "Former CIGNA Exec Has Stinging Words For Health
Insurers"
Date: Jun 25, 2009 7:39 AM
Just look at the history of Kaiser-Permanente
on Wikipedia. You can see they're all about
prevention. But because these Yale and UConn
tards who try to pass themselves off as doctors
they not only spun Lyme
http://www.actionlyme.org/STEERE_IN_EUROPE.htm
they still can't tell us what OspA is:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PAM3CYS_IMMUNE_SUPPRESSION.htm
ERGO, whose agenda is "prevention?"
The same people who say the disease for which
OspA is the vaccine does not exist:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CRYME_DISEASE.htm
The hysteria you now see from UConn:
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-zemel-lyme-disease.artjun19,0,5257058.story
is the result of their enormous fear, now of
going to the sodomy pens, because so many
Lyme victims - people with no science background -
understand the testing cryme:
http://www.lymecryme.com/rich_text_18.html
You can see with your own eyeballs that
Yale owns a real, scientifically valid test:
http://www.actionlyme.org/SV_PPT_2.htm
And that the State of Corrupticut even tweaked
it further with spiking the ELISA with "protein G."
1992.
Stuff ya can't make up.
The faggotty USDOJ would prefer to call 2
druggies and a pipe "a drug factory," and go
after middle-aged ladies who say they have
back problems and call them "Social Security
cheats," cuz that's easy, see. No corporate
lawyers to give em a hard time.
Scared little two-bit wimps who are terrified
of the *real* mob.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.courant.com/business/hc-cigna-potter.artjun25,0,3986671,print.story
courant.com/business/hc-cigna-potter.artjun25,0,4107201.story
Courant.com
SENATE HEARING
Former CIGNA Exec Has Stinging Words For Health Insurers
By DIANE LEVICK
The Hartford Courant
June 25, 2009
Click here to find out more!
A former media relations executive from CIGNA turned dramatically
against health insurers at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday,
calling the industry an "untrustworthy" partner for its customers and
"duplicitous" in blocking meaningful health care reform.
"They confuse their customers and dump the sick — all so they can
satisfy their Wall Street investors," said Wendell Potter, who retired
as CIGNA's vice president of corporate communications last year. He
spent nearly 15 years at the company and four years at Humana.
He spoke at a Washington hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science & Transportation along with others who lambasted health
insurers for making their policies and claim-paying methods hard to
understand.
Potter urged health care reform that includes a public health plan to
compete with private insurers, and told senators the industry is using
the kind of fear tactics that they employed to sink reform during the
Clinton administration.
He said he was not speaking out because of any grudge against CIGNA.
The company treated him well with "lots of bonuses" over the years and
persuaded him to stay longer than he'd planned, he said.
But he said he has had a growing feeling in recent years "that the
health insurance industry was taking the country in the wrong
direction and was directly contributing to the problem of the
uninsured and under-insured in the country." The industry, he said,
"is not part of the solution as they want us to believe; they are part
of the problem."
Potter, for instance, recalled a trip on a corporate jet from
Philadelphia, where CIGNA is headquartered, to Connecticut, where the
company's health insurance business is based in Bloomfield. During the
flight, he was served lunch on gold-rimmed china with a gold-plated
knife and fork.
"I realized for the first time that someone's insurance premiums were
paying for me to travel in such luxury," he said on his blog.
Potter, 57, is now a senior fellow — a paid consultant — at the
Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit
organization describing its mission as "exposing corporate spin and
government propaganda."
Although Potter revealed no new "smoking guns" Wednesday, he lashed
out at insurance practices that have surfaced over the years but may
not be well-known to the public.
He condemned insurers' efforts to get rid of unprofitable customers,
sell policies that can mislead consumers and offer very limited
coverage, and pay out as small a portion of premiums as possible for
claims in order to boost profits and please Wall Street.
"Insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, they flout
regulations designed to protect consumers, and they make it nearly
impossible to understand — or even to obtain — information we need,"
Potter's written testimony said.
Also testifying at the hearing was Nancy Metcalf of West Hartford,
senior program editor for Consumer Reports magazine and a former
Hartford Courant reporter and editor. She spoke about the dangers of
limited health insurance plans.
Potter described in written testimony how insurers use "purging" —
unrealistic rate increases — to drive off less profitable employers.
Citing a USA Today report, he recalled how CIGNA boosted rates in 2006
for the Entertainment Industry Group Insurance Trust so much that for
some family plans, premiums would have topped $44,000 a year.
He also recalled how Aetna in the 1990s spent more than $20 million to
overhaul computer systems to help the company better identify
unprofitable accounts and drop them.
CIGNA, responding to Potter's testimony, said Wednesday, "Although we
respect that there are different opinions on the solutions, we
strongly disagree with the suggestion that, motivated by profits, the
insurance industry has deliberately attempted to confuse or unfairly
treat covered individuals."
CIGNA said it advocates for "the importance of information
transparency and simplicity" and that it is "working actively and
constructively with the administration, Congress and key stakeholders
to develop solutions that will increase the access to and quality of
health care — and at the same time reduce costs for all."
The trade group America's Health Insurance Plans responded, "We
continue to be focused on advancing comprehensive health care reform
that addresses the health-care concerns we heard from the American
people." Insurers, the group said, have proposed "overhauling the
market rules and enacting new consumer protections so nobody is left
out, simplifying health care choices for individuals and small
businesses, and reforming the delivery system to improve the quality
and affordability of health care coverage."
However, Potter warned senators that the industry's "charm offensive —
which is the most visible part of duplicitous and well-financed PR and
lobbying campaigns — may well shape reform in a way that benefits Wall
Street far more than average Americans."
Copyright © 2009, The Hartford Courant
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