Comments on: Insurers Accused Of Underpaying Patients
CBS Evening News: New York AG Investigates Whether Health Care Companies Perpetuated Fraud
Add a Comment See all 90 Comments
- rhs648
The government doesen''t even control their own health care insurance. Government employees including retired military insurance is contracted out to insurance companies, so you can be sure that the taxpayer is getting ripped off there too. - Reply to this comment
- Does that imply''''s your mental health as well mommy erasmoos....
Posted by beodishazmi2 at 09:53 PM : Jan 13, 2009
How would you like me to squish your "little" brain.?:) - Reply to this comment
- If things are bad now, do you really want the goverment controlling health care?
Posted by rhs648 at 09:31 PM : Jan 13, 2009
Definitely... if I could get covered by the VA I''d be happy as a pig in s**t... but I got turned down because of Bush and his income requirements instituted in 2003 (or so) even though I''m a vet. Another promise broken. - Reply to this comment
- If things are bad now, do you really want the goverment controlling health care?
Posted by rhs648 at 09:31 PM : Jan 13, 2009
-------------------------------------------
Why do Americans think "government" is bad? As far as saying that - "government controlling..." You do realize that in America, the people control the government. It''s our own *** fault we all got lazy and let Washington and "the Government" go to the dogs. Maybe you should pay more attention to the congressmen and women you are voting for next time... - Reply to this comment
- I''ve had cancer for 18 years (with an original 5-10 year prognosis) and I''ve gone through 3 insurance companies (now paying $788 per month) and the whole time, not one of them would pay for the chemo ($700-$800/mo.). Health Insurance companies are a cancer on our country and the pharmaceutical companies are just as bad if not worse. They deal death to the lowest bidders... soulless corporate entities, aided and abetted by soulless employees. I don''t see how they sleep at night with the suffering and death of thousands if not millions of Americans on their hands. Hmm, they sound like they''re the soon to be extinct republicans... good riddance to you Bushites, may your souls rot in hell for your sins.
- Reply to this comment
- "In Canada? Ya walk in any hospital, and yer covered."
And we don''t even have to pay for our bed. - Reply to this comment
- "In Canada? Ya walk in any hospital, and yer covered."
That''s right! - Reply to this comment
- I think the USA should sue United Health Group.
- Reply to this comment
- If things are bad now, do you really want the goverment controlling health care?
Posted by rhs648 at 09:31 PM : Jan 13, 2009
I prefer to call it "regulating" our healthcare. They are making sure that "WE, THE PEOPLE", are not taken for a ride. I think you are forgetting something. The government is supposed to be working for YOU. The are supposed to be looking out for YOUR best interests, not their own. You need to be able to TRUST your government. Hopefully with Obama in there now, you have made a step in the right direction. Of course there are different types of universal healthcare, so let''s hope he chooses the right one. - Reply to this comment
- It''s bad enough that the insurers have driven up the price of health care to the point that their services have almost become a necessity. But, now they are even cheating those who are paying their exorbitant fees..
Millions are without insurance, and people all over the USA are suffering needlessly because they cannot afford healthcare.
It''s time that Congress stepped in and took over the insurance companies, and let the profit go to the
American people, instead of a bunch of greedy CEO''s.
Insurance, after all, is based on fear.. They use your fears to make you bet against yourself.. It is as much a con-game as the numbers racket....
What''s the difference between insurance and the old-time "protection" racket, anyway?
Only that one has lobbyists in Washington to keep themselves in business..... - Reply to this comment
- Ingenix? Ingenuous... not much of a stretch.
Perhaps they were saying all along...
Freudian slip? - Reply to this comment
- Your government tells your doctors what they may or may not do. That''''s even scarier!
Posted by TexHillGirl at 09:00 PM : Jan 13, 2009
You know what''s REALLY scary? People like you who THINK they know what our healthcare is about,but really have no clue. I can see YOUR government has you brainwashed. - Reply to this comment
- Health care should have been nationalized 12 years ago under Clinton. The neo-cons in the senate blocked it. why? The pay-offs were too tempting?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted by inverse137
This is a horrible idea. If things are bad now, do you really want the goverment controlling health care? A government health care system without the proper controls and oversight would make the banking debacle look like child''s play. Do you remember the $10,000 hammers the government purchased? - Reply to this comment
- To anyone who has putthru a claim for ANYTHING to their insurance company, this is nothing new. The less insurance companies can pay on a claim, the more money they can award their corporate executives with perks and bonuses for saving the company money.
And trying to sue insurance companies to get a just settlement is a joke. Unless you can find a lawyer who isn''t afraid of them or buddies with their lawyers.
And if they lose, they can appeal, and appeal, and appeal until you are either broke or give up!
Life has become a never-ending battle with you on one side and everyone else against you or the other!
That''s what the "American Dream" has become; an American NIGHTMARE!!!
SIG HEIL, MY MOTHER ALWAYS SAID THAT THE "LITTLE PEOPLE" DIDN''T COUNT!!!, BUSH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- Your doctor decides what course of treatment to pursue? What kind of non-sense is that?
Posted by inverse137 at 09:16 PM : Jan 13, 2009
Yes, my doctor does decide what course of treatment to pursue. - Reply to this comment
- Hey, how come you ******** dildddos are so ******** friendly when ya want our money, and so ******** indifferent when we want yers?
Posted by william412
------------------
Because paying out money is bad for the bottom line and bad for stockholders.
Medicine is a business. Don''t think otherwise. - Reply to this comment
- Your government tells your doctors what they may or may not do. That''''''''s even scarier!
Posted by TexHillGirl at 09:00 PM : Jan 13, 2009
No they do not.
You need to know what you are talking about before you start spewing your never-ending cr*p.
My doctor is the one that decides whether I have surgery or go to a specialist. No one else.
Posted by erasmus606 at 09:11 PM : Jan 13, 2009
---------------------
Your doctor decides what course of treatment to pursue? What kind of non-sense is that?
Everyone knows an MBA is supposed to decide your health options based on a cost/benefit analysis vs. longevity prediction.
Doctors deciding...what kinda fantasy world is that? - Reply to this comment
- Health care should have been nationalized 12 years ago under Clinton. The neo-cons in the senate blocked it. why? The pay-offs were too tempting?
I shouldn''t have to tell my employees every year that, once again, their benefits are being reduced.
I shouldn''t have to tell them that their annual increase will only be 4% cash because the rest is going towards their medical insurance. - Reply to this comment
- Your government tells your doctors what they may or may not do. That''''s even scarier!
Posted by TexHillGirl at 09:00 PM : Jan 13, 2009
No they do not.
You need to know what you are talking about before you start spewing your never-ending cr*p.
My doctor is the one that decides whether I have surgery or go to a specialist. No one else. - Reply to this comment
- Medical insurance is criminal.
That neo-con twit TexHillGirl obviously doesn''t own a small business.
Hey, TexTwitGirl, ever wonder how much of my payroll goes to benefits? And then the fact that most small businesses self-insure the $1,500 deductible per person because the rates are so outrageous?
You want to stimulate the economy and promote hiring of good, qualified people? Do something about medical costs. - Reply to this comment
Mike Huckabee on GOP "rock stars," 2012, health care reform and more.
