> On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 8:10:02 PM UTC-7, Doc Smartass wrote:
>> Joe Bruno <
ajt...@cox.net> wrote in news:54fc4e72-6af6-4fdd-aff2-
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915bcf...@googlegroups.com:
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>> > Subject: Obamacare is Unnecessary
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>> ...to people who can afford to pay for their own medical.
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>> You gonna come help me pay my medical bills, asshole?
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> A friend of mine has a wife and an 18 month old child.
> He has Blue Cross medical which takes care of all three for 165 bucks
> a month.
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He has Blue Cross - until Blue Cross
dumps him the first time he needs it.
Blue Cross praised employees who dropped sick policyholders
LA Times
"Blue Cross of California encouraged employees through
performance evaluations to cancel the health insurance
policies of individuals with expensive illnesses, Rep.
Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) charged at the start of a
congressional hearing today on the controversial practice
known as rescission."
"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."
An investigation by the House Subcommittee on Oversight
and Investigations showed that health insurers WellPoint
Inc., UnitedHealth Group and Assurant Inc. canceled the
coverage of more than 20,000 people, allowing the companies
to avoid paying more than $300 million in medical claims
over a five-year period.
It also found that policyholders with breast cancer,
lymphoma and more than 1,000 other conditions were
targeted for rescission and that employees were praised
in performance reviews for terminating the policies of
customers with expensive illnesses.
"No one can defend, and I certainly cannot defend,
the practice of canceling coverage after the fact,"
said Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-Tex.), a member of
the committee. "There is no acceptable minimum to
denying coverage after the fact."
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