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For profit health insurance is a Crime Against Humanity.
For profit baby, for profit. The profit in insurance comes from denying coverage at every turn.
Thanks for posting this article.
The sheer greed of Cigna and other large insurers is not that hard to understand. What is hard to understand is how any doctor could be following their oath as a medical practitioner to basically deem so many procedures and tests, etc, as not medically necessaryâŚwithout ever having actually reviewed the claims in any detail.
I am about to not have a Cigna prescription drug plan. I have yet to get a prescription drug refill that wasnât cheaper using GoodRx than my Cigna plan.
Recently Aetna partly denied payment for my dental procedure that they had pre-approved. I grumbled and wrote a check. I think most people donât have the ability to win a fight against an insurance company. The numbers they put in their statements donât even make any sense.
These people suck ass.
I knew an RN who worked for an insurance company, denying legitimate claims. She quit after a year, unable to live with her conscience. Good to know now that a conscienceless algorythym is available to do her job. /s
Hmmmm⌠just results in denial of payment⌠so denial of insurance that the employee paid for.
Never give up on a claim. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
The mother of my kids worked on these f*ckers for 6 months to get our kid surgery she needed, and she finally wore them down. Now the kid is in great shape, a month of healing later.
Why would they do this if their ultimate goal is to care for the patient?â he said.
Iâm still laughing that he thinks a for-profit healthcare system might have an ultimate goal to care for the patient.
Itâs ultimate goal is ⌠profit!
FTFY. (Note: Thatâs not saying doctors shouldnât get paid. Though of course, nobody should get paid, we should get past the monetary economy entirely into a glorious socialist workerâs paradise, but thatâs not gonna happen for at least half a dozen tech jumps yet.)
totally O/T FYI
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I have an expensive John Hancock Long-term Care Plan. Its very expensiveâ$2,300 per yearâfor someone with limited income like me. Iâve been paying for twenty years already. I too often think that I will die before accessing one penny or when Iâm in need, they will find an excuse to deny.
Also people are living longer, so every third year JH appeals to the state and always gets substantial raises to the rates. Theyâve offered to buy us out for what weâve put into it, with not one penny for inflation or interest given that theyâve had use of my money for all those years already. Now I understand why John Hancock can have a huge fancy building and can afford to put its name on so many high-end sporting events and facilities. I hate them.
First do no harm.
The job of insurance companies is to make money and the easiest way for them to do it is too take your money and not provide necessary medical care. How those doctors running computer programs to deny coverage can look themselves in the mirror and not see a crook looking back at them is more than I can understand.
Crook and then some â abject failure of humanity.
Just came to say that for profit health insurance is immoral but i like your wording better!
Sounds like a class-action lawsuit just waiting to happenâŚ
Iâd guess itâs not hard to incentivize that behavior. Since itâs trivial to deny, all thatâs needed is that it be more time consuming to approve and also to base performance on number of claims processed per unit time. Add to that dismissals of anyone who takes too long to process claims and you select for the behavior you want as well as incentivizing it