Comments on: Is The Basic Thing The Insurers Want Is The Government To Take The Catastrophic Claims Off Their Backs?

By: derecho

derecho — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:18:23 +0000

Why is nobody talking about the BUSH DEATH PANELS that exsist now in health ins. companies?
My wife was recently discharged from the hospital because Blue Cross’s DEATH PANEL decided that her care was costing too much, and sent her to a human warehouse of DEATH ! It was a ‘interim’ housing that terminally ill people that just have ins, not CASH, are sent to DIE ! The place smelled of urine, worse that a horse barn ! There was NO ONE of any authority on duty for the whole weekend. She was given a bed w/no side rails to keep her from falling out. When she complained, she was told that no one could access the equipment room until Monday. I only found out she was being moved because she called me in tears when she suddenly found herself there. I had just seen her on Friday AM, and after I left, she took a nap. She was woken up, and TOLD that they were sending her out of the hospital to go DIE ! It was so traumatic for her ! I called her daughter who lives closer to rescue her mom. Why should they make her suffer because the ins. decided that it was costing too much for her to have nursing care as she dies? Do you have any idea what it means to slowly waste away and die a painful ,messy death from cancer?
If you think I’m a troll, e-mail me for ALL the gory details of our 3 year nightmare of corporate ins. !

By: Page1344

Page1344 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:36:19 +0000

The basic thing the insurers want is more and more and more money.

By: spanish mortgages

spanish mortgages — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:16:12 +0000

Could be, since a lot sick would switch to the public plan since for them it might be cheaper and ins cos have to keep them if they pay the higher limits under a lot of rules. This would let them start with a clean slate, and no backlog of preexisting conditions, essentially. Even those that stay private would now be subsidized by healthy kids, etc. , now forced to buy insurance whether they want to or not.
A different kind of bailout.

By: jim s

jim s — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:55:32 +0000

Limits for malpractice awards, and the amount Doctors have to pay, and the limits they are forced to carry.
A slippery slope that invites Witch Doctors in, I know, but a middle ground has to be reached.
Till then Doctors are forced to OVER-TEST patients to make sure to not miss a pimple on a patients a$$, because of all the suing sams, and government fines (extra taxes) levied against them.
This is why when one goes to the hospital with a sliver in the index finger, the hospital does 3 Cat-Scans, 5 MRI’s, and twenty X-Rays.
A simple inexpensive procedure becomes a cost nightmare because of people who are trying to get rich, and lawyers feeding the fire to do so.