COURANT on US Healthcare-Follies' Update: Self-Ass-Biting BigInsurance Blows Their Own Whistle
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Subject: COURANT on US Healthcare-Follies' Update: Self-Ass-Biting
BigInsurance Blows Their Own Whistle
Date: Feb 20, 2009 10:13 AM
Health insurance should have been blinded-to-
who-their-customers-were all along.
There never should have been anything like
"managed care" but hand it to MDs for being
persistently brainless and cowardly.
Get it?
'Managed care managed by people who have no
business knowing what their subscribers/clients
are medically inconvenienced with?
"Managed care is just taking over healthcare and the
MDs groups had better just get used to the idea?" -
John J. Connolly of CastleConnolly.com and past president
of the Lyme RICO entity sued by the CT Attorney General:
http://www.actionlyme.org/ALDF_BOARD.htm
And the proof that John J. RICO Connolly said that
is still in the Kevin J. Phony-Mick and Yale-Skull-
and-Boner-Kisser O'Coward's office in New Hell Haven:
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
waiting for the USDOJ to spontaneously grow a male
gonad cell.
Blame the MDs. They want us to pay them for being
smart and knowing stuff. They sue BigInsurance any
time it's about their own little fairy-ass
fanny-packs.
If BigInsurance was not involved in medical "guidelines"
http://www.actionlyme.org/080430_RICO_CABAL_CAVES.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
and insists on being involved in making a judgment about
who-what they will insure... that comes from their illegal
involvement in medical guidelines and in private, personal
medical data in the first place, eluting their term "managed
care."
Here, below, they, BigInsurance, reveal their own
fraudulent gig; this angle; that they're in a place
they don't belong - managing medicine - when they want
to *INSIST* that everyone who is too healthy to need
insurance (or so they believe, these "strapping young
bucks"...) buy insurance, too.
That's how it would have been all along had insurance
not managed-cared themselves out of financial reach of
so many millions, not saving themselves or any other
humans any costs, not to mention not adding anything
scientifically substantial, for all their hyper-illegalities
and torturing MDs into running their businesses under
the "management" of the BigInsurance moron-ho behind a
desk like BigBrother KGB or Hitler's SS.
Torturing violators, like Lyme-literate MDs who
treat according to IDSA's older, scientific valid
guidelines - guidelines invented before Kaiser-
Permanente got ahold of it, or people like me
with their DCF pitbulls:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CHP_9_IDSA_REVIEWS.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAIN_PERMANENT.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/LYNNAE_LAKE_CASE.htm
Corrupticut is one funny place. The Medical Board,
supposedly a group of MDs, torture people who stand
up against Managed Care, like Ray Jones, Joe Burrascano,
Bernard Raxlen....
It keeps getting funnier around here, don't it?
BigInsurance created this mess, and the medical
boards persecute the people who fight to end
the medical community's problems with managed care.
Managed care wants to undo the problem they
created by being managed care...
While no one can come up with the answer which
is insurance companies are not MDs and should
not be managing anyone's care. It is illegal
by every definition of perversion one can come
up with:
http://dictionary.die.net/perversion
Here is proof:
http://www.actionlyme.org/JUNE_13_2005_LETTER_TO_SPITZER.htm
Kaiser-Permanente is still at NYMC, training MDs,
which was how John J. Connolly got involved in
the Lyme scam:
NYMC was being financially mismanaged.
Kaiser bailed them out.
They made a deal.
John J. Connolly turned coat:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CONNOLLY_FISH_WEINSTEIN.htm
BigInsurance married the patent profiteers:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CRYME_DISEASE.htm
The Lyme crymes and the cabal - The 180s - are about an intended
monopoly on vector borne diseases "test kits" and "vaccines" and
could not have happened without the Bayh-Dole Act. The monopoly
involved Kaiser-Permanente (still) at New York Medical College and the
deal was: No one is allowed to have any illness signs nor is treatment
to be paid for, until the alleged "vaccine" is ready, and then
everyone will be notified about how serious that particular vector
borne disease is, and that they better get the "vaccine."
No one can unscramble this mess even when
BigInsurance autoreveals it in defense of
themselves?
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Health Reform
State Insurers Propose Health Reform Plan
By DIANE LEVICK
The Hartford Courant
February 20, 2009
In Connecticut's quest for universal health care, insurers are quietly
floating a proposal more dramatic than they've ever offered to reduce
the number of residents without coverage.
Industry officials, worried about other health care reform
legislation, are advocating a new insurance pool for individuals who
can't find or afford insurance in the private market.
The pool would accept consumers regardless of health problems, a major
departure from current practice.
But there's a big catch: To make the pool work, the state would have
to require everyone to have insurance, the insurers said.
Pooling, in general, isn't a new idea, and some critics say the
industry's version is just an attempt to protect its turf.
The Connecticut Association of Health Plans and Mickey Herbert, chief
executive of Farmington-based ConnectiCare, have been talking to
legislators and business groups about the proposal, but it's not a
bill yet and few details are available.
The General Assembly is already considering myriad reform proposals,
including a revival of last year's effort to expand the state employee
health plan to include municipalities, small employers and nonprofits.
Insurers oppose that idea, and their pool proposal wouldn't include
those groups.
Some consumer advocates say the industry's idea is self-serving,
designed to boost membership and profits, and fails to go far enough.
Insurers disagree.
"No one expects to make a ton of money in this market, but my interest
is to get everyone in this state covered with good coverage at an
affordable price," Herbert said. "To me, this is the way we're going
to get there. Any other way is not going to lead to that as a result."
Keith Stover, lobbyist for the health plan association, said the
legislature "needs to focus on solving specific problems for specific
populations. The individual [insurance] market is an area that is
solvable."
More than 320,000 Connecticut residents aren't insured, and buying a
policy in the individual market can be difficult because insurers are
allowed to reject applicants with serious or chronic medical
conditions. Also, prices are often unaffordable, especially for the
middle-aged.
It's not unusual for a 60-year-old woman, for instance, to pay more
than $8,000 a year for a policy with a $500 deductible; higher
deductibles would lower the premiums.
Insurers don't have answers for what the proposed pool's premiums, co-
payments or benefits might be. The pool would need taxpayer support —
government subsidies of unknown size — to keep coverage affordable for
people below certain income levels.
Proponents say requiring every resident to have insurance would allow
the pool to attract younger and healthier people to help offset the
higher claims costs of older and sicker consumers.
Insurers would bid to participate in the pool, which could have
multiple insurers and a choice of plans with varying benefit designs
and premiums.
Insurers would still sell policies to individuals outside the pool,
Herbert said. People already insured by individual policies could keep
them or join the pool if they find its coverage and prices more
attractive. Over time, the industry expects many people to migrate to
the pool.
The industry's pool idea "is very self-serving," says Tom Swan,
executive director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group. "It
strikes me they are insincere in trying to put together a reform
proposal that maximizes their profit."
Swan is also co-chairman of the HealthFirst Connecticut Authority,
created by the legislature in 2007 to examine health care reform ideas
and make recommendations. Herbert, also a member of the authority, has
been trying to win its support for an individual pool, but
acknowledged that panel members are divided on it. The group is
expected to vote on reform issues Tuesday.
Swan strongly supports the idea of expanding the state employee
insurance plan to other employers. That proposal was championed last
year by House Speaker Christopher Donovan, D- Meriden, but was vetoed
by Gov. M. Jodi Rell. The proposal is back this year, among several
reform bills the public health committee is weighing.
Donovan said he welcomes the insurance industry's ideas, but isn't
judging its pool idea until he sees how the benefits would compare
with state employees' insurance and how affordable the pool coverage
would be.
The Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut believes its own
reform package offers "a more comprehensive approach to dealing with
problems of the health care system" than the industry's individual
pool concept, said foundation spokeswoman Janet Davenport.
The foundation's SustiNet plan would create a giant self-insured pool
by combining state employees with state assistance programs, such as
the HUSKY plan. The pool would be open to the public, beginning with
people who don't have access to employer-sponsored insurance or who
find it unaffordable. Small employers, municipalities and nonprofit
groups would be worked into the pool over time.
SustiNet also advocates better coordination of patient care, use of
electronic medical records to improve care and reduce costs, programs
to prevent chronic illness and other steps aimed at improving health.
Sen. Jonathan A. Harris, D- West Hartford, co-chairman of the public
health committee, noted that one of the bills raised by the panel
reflects reforms made in Massachusetts and similarities to the
Connecticut insurers' pool idea. The bill, for example, would require
insurance to be issued regardless of a person's health and that
everyone must have some type of insurance.
The industry's proposal, Harris said, shows that insurers here
recognize that the nation has a serious health care problem that
affects the economy, and that they want to be part of the solution.
"There has never been successful health care reform," Harris says,
"without all the stakeholders being at the table."
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