Insurance Company Schemes = NYT Editorial
29 June 2009 8:04 am by djjl
http://tinyurl.com/m2pcpw
“…………..a damning portrait — and one Americans know from painful personal experience — of an industry that all too often puts profits ahead of patients.”
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“The companies typically argue that the policyholders withheld information about pre-existing conditions that would have disqualified them from coverage. But the subcommittee unearthed cases where the pre-existing conditions were trivial, or unrelated to the claim, or not known to the patient. When executives for the three companies were asked if they would be willing to limit rescissions to cases where the policyholder deliberately lied on an application form, all said they would not. This tactic will not be ended voluntarily.”
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Reminds me a lot of the tobacco companies bald faced lies before Congress.
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Ins. cos don’t see anything in health care reform for them. That’s the collision point.