… maybe doctors and patients can unite against health insurers and the Congresscritters they’ve bought & paid for?
intercst
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Getting doctors to come together as a group is like herding cats.
Way back in the day all the anesthesiologists in town quit taking United Health. Long story short, the major hospital in town got all the groups together to discuss what was going on. All the other docs basically looked at me like I was the devil incarnate because I was putting a kink in their surgery cases. Only one caught on and told me thanks for drawing for drawing a line in the sand because they knew if my domino fell that they’d be next.
Eventually UH caved to going back to the old pay scale instead of the proposed 20% cut. But no thanks to the other MDs.
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Meanwhile, the spin on today’s “news” is the perp had no connection with United Health. More likely he shot the CEO, because the company is one of the largest in the country. See? The cover-up begins. Murder not an indictment of the health insurance industry, UNH stock is up today. Move along people. Nothing to see here.
Steve
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Every doctor’s office I’ve dealt with, and there have been too many of them, have told me that dealing with insurance has noticeably deteriorated over the last 15 years or more. My dream right now is to retire in a year, at 59. My nightmare is trying to find an insurance policy for me and my family that won’t financially ruin that dream OR make my next major health event derail that retirement.
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Not to rain on your parade, but good luck with that.
Not to delve into politics, but DW & I used to have a high deductible policy that was non-Obama care compliant. Some how grandfathered in. Did what we needed, covered accidents/big events. Didn’t need maternity/pregnancy care (were 60), didn’t need pediatrics (no kids), etc., etc., etc. But last year, these policies were phased out. So now our policy costs 3 times as much off the government website because we are now forced to buy things we don’t need and won’t use.
We’re from the government and we’re here to help. HAHAHAHA!
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Same with the coverage I bought from United Health when I retired, at the end of 2011. Every year, I received a letter saying that my non-compliant plan had been grandfathered, for another year, because Congress had passed an extension of the exemption. I hit Medicare eligibility in 2018, so was no longer concerned with that UH plan’s qualification.
As I keep saying, laws like Part C, Part D, ACA, are, first, written to benefit the insurance industry. That is why I keep saying that the current hand wringing about how insurance companies treat their customers, is a buying opportunity, because nothing will be done that would really hurt them.
Of course, YMMV
Steve