Comments on: Blue Cross To Docs: Help Cancel Coverage

Calif. Health Insurer Sends Letters Asking Physicians To Report Pre-Existing Conditions

[iceman_1960]

"Excuse me people, but if someone LIES on their application, then the insurance company should have every right to cancel their coverage."
- Posted by hawksprings at 04:13 PM : Feb 12, 2008

Excuse me, but I was having a little fun with the good physician"s name: Dr. Frankenstein.

Now don"t you feel a little dumb ?

[au_fait]

MCVET, you are a moron. Do you really believe that everything in the world is Bush''s fault. The insurance industry has been going downhill sicne the 90''s, if not before that. Let me guess that was Bush senior''s fault. As for us having the worst medical care, you are mistaken. If you have the ability to pay, it is a great system. What sucks in our system, is the lawyers who are ambulance chasers which have increased the costs to doctors, who will pass it on (as in the case with all buisinesses). Let see, oh and free insurance to illegal immigrants, which causes an increase to the doctors as well as the tax payers. Not that insurance companies do not suck, as in many cases they do. But the quality of care you can recieve far outweighs what is available around the world.

[bb19631]

This is the kind of bulllshit, Michael Moore was talking about in his documentary "Sicko". Watch it , you may learn something. What ever happened to Dr.-patient confidentiality? These insurance companies are making me sick. We are getting poorer, they are getting richer by billions of dollars. The insurance companies have monthly quotas, they have to meet by turning down people, to line their own fat wallets.

[hawksprings]

::"We''''re outraged that they are asking doctors to violate the sacred trust of patients to rat them out for medical information that patients would expect their doctors to handle with the utmost secrecy and confidentiality," said Dr. Richard Frankenstein.
Dr. Frankenstein has really put his finger on it.
Blue Cross is a monster run amok.::"
Posted by Iceman_1960

Excuse me people, but if someone LIES on their application, then the insurance company should have every right to cancel their coverage.

You need to stop and think about that before you fly off the handle and crucify Blue Cross.

Just because Bill Clinton gets away with lying doesn''t mean everyone should.

[docpeter-2009]

RE: talkingham stated, "Allstate- the good hands people, their logo should show those hands strangling you by the neck." Sorry to disagree with you here, but you are a little too far north of where they have their hands. Think much further down South. This goes for all of the insurance companies.

[docpeter-2009]

Considering the CEO(s) of the big ICs make in the $M annual salary range and it is the PATIENT/CUSTOMER who is paying for their salary, I guess the CEO has his eye on a second home as well as a nice diamond and Porsche for his wife''s and kid''s christmas. God help him, he can''t afford both this year if he has to pay for someone else getting sick. Three people they need to run our of Washington DC: big pharma, insurance, and oil companies. These folks are raping all of the rest of us.

[iceman_1960]

"We''re outraged that they are asking doctors to violate the sacred trust of patients to rat them out for medical information that patients would expect their doctors to handle with the utmost secrecy and confidentiality," said Dr. Richard Frankenstein.

Dr. Frankenstein has really put his finger on it.

Blue Cross is a monster run amok.

[rmagee3]

Insurance companies are a business and believe me they have no heart. They do what is in their best financial interest and saving your life is not in their best interest. Once you cost them more than you could ever bring in, it''s over!! I have a 4 year old grandaughter that has a genetic disorder that she can die from if it is not properly treated. She was denied coverage by every insurance company we approached until the State of Arizona got involved. That policy cost my kids $1000.00 a month and covered only illness and injury that could not be related to her disorder. The government has to do something or eventually no one who has ever been sick or in the hospital will be able to get and keep coverage. I am a Republican and I don''t advocate the government paying for everyone to be covered but they have to do what is in the interest of all citizens. If you are a UNited States Citizen, paying taxes and living here legally, you should have some recourse to get coverage.

[wango2007-2009]

WellPoint Inc., the Indianapolis-based company that operates Blue Cross of California, said it was sending out the letters in an effort to keep costs at a minimum.
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What a joke. They are not interested in "cutting costs" to help anyone... the only want to increase profits for stockholders.

WellPoint Inc/Blue Cross of California is a predatory monster.

Trying to get doctors to help them profit from people''s pain is just pure evil.

[talkingham]

In case you haven''t figured the insurance companies already ruin healthcare in this country. They steal every penny they can from your paycheck and when you need them they nickle and dime you to death and find every excuse possible not to pay you. I''d be better off sticking my payroll deduction in a matress.

Allstate- the good hands people, their logo should show those hands strangling you by the neck. These companies and their millionaire executives and paid pushers the doctors are driving the cost of healthcare thorugh the roof, not the consumer who pays their bills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[magoo2u1]

AND which of you idiots doesn''t understand that when these rejected people file for bankruptcy and the doctors claim the losses on their taxes - THE TAXPAYER GETS THE BILL ??? The hospital will get paid by the government and the inflated bill, not what the INS co. would have paid. EXample : my daughter had pneumonia, Total bill? $2200.00 What did everyone accept from Ins ? $450. The taxpayer will suck up the $2200 when these people can''t pay. Insurance companies and Republicans, like the police, ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

[irliberal]

A fine example of a capitalist system of health coverage that Hillary proposes to fix.

This profit grubbing and money grabbing and disregard for doctor-patient confidentiality are all results of the current private health care for-profit industry.

Time for a change.

[retiredusaf3]

LOL Isn''t this one of the companies that Hilliay wants covering you???

[antoniof123]

Another example of "too much regulation" - letting laws interfere with profits.

Posted by ibsteve2u at 03:05 PM : Feb 12, 2008

Are you an idiot this is because of deregulation not regulation. It was illegal to drop someone if they attempted to be honest. But now these misfits have idiots beleiving that this is in there best intrest.

Quit listening to the RNC and raido shock jocks they LIE. If you haven''t figured it out yet.

God there is one born every minute or in this countries case 30 percent born and breeding.

I will be dropping Blue Cross Blue Shield as soon as I have replacement coverage.

[kennergirl]

Insurance companies make me sick.

[missingamerica]

"...needs to review the laws before making their policies."

Posted by crusherking at 02:43 PM : Feb 12, 2008

Another example of "too much regulation" - letting laws interfere with profits.

[sdcjd1]

We desperately need healthcare reform. Hopefully voters will pay attention to this important issue next election.

[mcvet]

Well when you have the WORST health Care system in the civilized world, a system costing MORE per covered person and delievering less than any of those nations, what can you expect. It seems the fascist plan to "fix" the health care system is working out just fine... for the Insurance Companies!! Sieg Heil Y''all and don''t get sick!!

[crusherking]

Where is the patient/doctor confidentialty here? Isn''t a doctor bound by this to NOT disclose this info to anyone without the patients consent? Seems BC/BS needs to review the laws before making their policies.