When Insurance Companies Come Between You and Your Doctor
June 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM Leave a comment
The big scare line used thus far by those who don’t want to reform health care goes something like this: “You don’t want the government to come between you and your doctor, do you?”
I do. I’d rather have the government come between me and my doctor than my insurance company, because I don’t think this would happen if we changed things:
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.
Chief executives of those three companies testified before the Subcommittee on Oversight yesterday. They were asked if they would stop dropping customers — some of whom pay into their insurance pot for years before filing a claim — without showing “intentional fraud.” They all said no.
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