This story makes me wonder why we are bending over backwards making concessions to our health insurance companies. They seem to be going out of their way to provide as little coverage as possible to Americans, in as cruel a fashion as possible.
I’d like to hear anyone out there defend UnitedHealth’s “Golden Rule” insurance plan, which denied Peggy Robertson insurance coverage because she had a C-section. They did tell her there was one way she could get coverage: She could get herself sterilized.
The profits made from this kind of behavior is now funding Matt Entenza's campaign for governor.
Thanks, troll. Will you please come to terms with the eventual failure of the Entenza campaign, and stop trolling here?
I would love to come to terms with the eventual failure of the Entenza campaign. My concern is that that failure is not certain, at least in regard to getting the nomination - Entenza will never actually be elected governor, but I would still very much like to elect a Democrat.
You can call me a troll all you want, but I happen to think its pretty relevant that Entenza's campaign is being funded by his wife's earnings from a company that is essentially pure evil. What United Health Care did here and on other occasions is unconscionable. And its not limited to a few anecdotes - they have been prosecuted for their illegal coverage practices in nearly every state in the country. This resulted in record profits and tens of millions of dollars paid to Entenza's wife, which he is now using to try to buy the nomination.
I would love to come to terms with it. Can you guarantee that his campaign will eventually fail?
Since this diary is discussing the abhorent behavior of United Health Care, I don't see why its trolling to point out the connection to Entenza's campaign. You can call me a troll, but you can't dispute the facts.
I didn't mean to post twice. My earlier comment didn't show up until I wrote the second one.
The amazing thing about our form of government is that we can regulate corporations. We can tax them. We can tell them what they have to do. We can tell them how to treat their employees. We can tell them what they can and cannot put in their products. We can tell them what they have to tell their shareholders.
That is what Congress is attempting to do now with health insurance corporations and what a majority of Americans want them to do: regulate them. Certainly one of the regulations in the reform package must be that women cannot be denied maternity coverage. It has nothing to do with whether a woman has had a C-section or whether she was raped in the past or whether breast cancer runs in her family. Insurance companies must provide insurance for women and they must pay for her health care whatever her health problem is and they must not raise her rates. We as Americans have the right to regulate insurance companies. To me, nothing could be simpler.
The amazing thing about our form of government is that we can regulate corporations. We can tax them. We can tell them what they have to do. We can tell them how to treat their employees. We can tell them what they can and cannot put in their products. We can tell them what they have to tell their shareholders.
That is what Congress is attempting to do now with health insurance corporations and what a majority of Americans want them to do: regulate them. Certainly one of the regulations in the reform package must be that women cannot be denied maternity coverage. It has nothing to do with whether a woman has had a C-section or whether she was raped in the past or whether breast cancer runs in her family. Insurance companies must provide insurance for women and they must pay for her health care whatever her health problem is and they must not raise her rates. We as Americans have the right to regulate insurance companies. To me, nothing could be simpler.
Sorry… forgot to say great post - can’t wait to read your next one!
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To me, the auto insurance-health insurance analogy is the laziest, most idiotic analogy there is. Auto insurance is for accidents only. It would only be applicable if health insurance only covered things like broken bones or being struck by lightning.
Health insurance covers internal, systematic bodily breakdowns. Cancer, heart attacks, etc.
Auto insurance does not cover systematic breakdowns like brake failure, transmissions going out, etc. The REpublicans want health insurance to work like auto insurance so we have even less coverage.
To compare the two is moronic. Fact.
The real fact is that America's laissez-faire health care arrangement disappeared decades ago, smothered by the institution of insurance. Businessmen noticed that billions of dollars were flowing directly from patients to doctors without a businessman getting a percentage. Medical insurance has gained in entrenched complexity as it inexorably increases premiums, its stranglehold on American health care delivery; and it reaps the resulting profits.
How come we get settled with our health insurance? Like obama is forcing to help small businesses and NIC is trying to cut their heads the mushroom insurance companies in our country. I am really confused.
The Twisted Health Care System. Oh, what a mess. As is with so much of our society today, our health care system is so screwed up.