Robin Beaton: This Is America And We Deserve Good Health Care
Today, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing entitled “Terminations of Individual Health Policies by Insurance Companies.” The hearing examined the practice of “post-claims underwriting,” which occurs when insurance companies cancel individual health insurance policies after providers submit claims for medical services rendered. Robin Beaton testified: In May 2008, I went to the dermatologist for acne. A word was written on my chart and interpreted incorrectly as meaning pre-cancerous. Shortly thereafter, I was diagnosed with Invasive HER-2 Genetic Breast Cancer, a very aggressive form of breast cancer. I was told I needed a double mastectomy. When the surgeons scheduled my surgery I was pre-certified for my two days hospitalization. The Friday before the Monday I was scheduled to have my double mastectomy, Blue Cross red flagged my chart due to the dermatologist report. The dermatologist called Blue Cross directly to report that I only had acne and please not hold up my coming surgery. Blue cross called me to inform me that they were launching a 5 year medical investigation into my medical History and that this would take approximately 3 months.
Thank God for people like Joe Barton.
My husband is going through rescession with BCBS. One week after his approved surgery he laid helpless in bed wrapped bandages and while making a casual call to BCBS an agent told me that the insurance policy was rescended (cancelled). I had never heard that word before. She was rude and condescending to me, like she had scored a hit. It is immoral what insurance companies and LOBBISTS are doing to us regular people.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous,
We are oft to blame in this, Tis too much proved that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself.
Spare the Rod.
Let me tell you a story about a lady named…
Barbara Wagner !!!, obamanites We will never let such tyranny in America this lady and her story and government run healthcare in Oregon speak volumes to the evils you wish to impose on the people, they refused her cancer treatment and offered to pay for her assisted suicide don’t believe it read about it on abc@com.
Death panels this is what it will come to politicians in million dollar houses offering Barbara Wagner !!! assisted suicide over proper treatment so they can be rich. Do you think they would have denied the governor of Oregon the same treatment ? 41!! 41!!
HAHA She can thank her white republican congressmen. Fuck this bitch. Hows that party working out for you now bitch.
This is Anmerica and we deserve good healthcare IF WE WANT IT! Fuck Obama and his bullshit!
@Alfrunk Canada’s banks are healthier than ours because they’re regulated.
It’s not my fault that government is beholdened to private interests. Take money out of politics and the system will fix itself but it’s quite stupid to assume all government is evil when only ours needs fixing.
Wow another misguided goofball canadian trying to tell everyone how to live. Your facts are so off it’s not even worth debating. “Canada: Land of the not quite right.”
I know facts may not be your strong suit, but if you bothered to read the bill you would see that they WILL ration care. Try informing yourself, you may not embarrass yourself as much.
Wow your lack of comprehension is astounding. Who rewards the companies that fuck up? GOVERNMENT. Where did the fuck up companies get their bailouts? God I hate having to explain the obvious to simple minded goofs like you. And that’s not hate it’s truth, regardless of how you feel about it. Effeminate weirdo.
The best part is when government makes a mistake it corrects itself through public backlash.
When companies fuck up they get rewarded for it.
So yeah I trust the government over corporations. I respect your insult though for it shows that you’re on the wrong side of history due to your hate.
Alfrunk, have you listened to this testimony? Acne is an inflammatory condition. It’d be appropriate to make a note that chronic inflammatory condition may, if untreated, lead to a malignancy. The insurance company used that generic statement to deny treatment for a type of breast cancer which has a well understood genetic cause. It’s aggressive, that’s all in the textbooks. Maybe if there was a public option that need would have been met
alfrunk, I do not love hearing from the economically illiterate right, who fail to understand this simple fact. It was the economic policies you promoted which led to the current recession! Some of us are trying to help the people your policies hurt. You are simply trying to tell them “it wasn’t me! A big boy did it and ran away”
repukeslie7, Insurance companies are not the villains because they pay their CEO’s to much? If I’m aiming for a 4% profit margin, as in dividends to my shareholders. If I score high then I can cream off the rest for myself. The more claims I can deny the more money for me. The insurance company is the villain because they collude to earn that extra profit.
You do have health care in the US. It’s how you ration it that’s at issue. As it stands access to health care in the US is rationed solely by the effect on the profitability of the policy for the insurance company. Introducing a public option means they have to change their business model to compete on access. You want to get treatment quicker, take out a policy. You want to wait go public.
Kinda like how your beloved government is advising postponement of mammograms until age 50? What a great entity to have in charge of health care, huh you parasitic slackass??
We have healthcare in the US. The government will not fix anything. You people are idiots if you think it can or will.
Ahhh love hearing from the compassionate, logical left.
Literally kill all health insurance CEOs. Drag them into the streets and murder them.
Insurance companies spread lies that the legislation would include “Death Panels.” The real “Death Panels” are at Insurance companies holding private policies (that are paid up!) where their clients have a catastrophic illness and they try (as they did with Robin) to “get rid of” them.
“Getting rid of them” means certain death. That’s not a death panel but a hit squad.
That is complete and utter BULLSHIT bro.
Nice country you have. Real nice country.
BRAVO ! The world is looking at you.
Insurance companies, for their faults, are not the villain here…they operate on a less than 4% profit margin…..the government operates in a deficit….
Their profit margins would be higher if they didn’t pay their CEOs $1.6 BILLION (no typo there.) That is what United Healthcare’s Bill McGuire made in 1 year. Why should insurance companies be making one dime off the backs of people’s misery and deaths? Get rid of them They are the real death panels.
Now imagine health insurance and employment aren’t tied together (the way they wouldn’t be in a truly capitalist society). And imagine because of the millions of people who don’t have insurance there is a huge profit motive for an entrepreneur to provide an affordable insurance plan to said millions. And imagine other entrepreneurs following his example do the same. Now imagine there are thousands of options for people to choose exactly the kind of care they want. Sadly, this is an analogy.
How about this analogy, imagine you are in a capitalist country which prides profit above all else. Now imagine companies getting more profit for denying healthcare to it’s customers.
Oh wait thats not an analogy