Does America need more of this from their private health-care insurers?

Question by Lamplighter: Does America need more of this from their private health-care insurers?
Ex-executive accuses insurance giant of ‘purging’ customers

” In his testimony and during an interview with CNN, Potter described how underwriters at his former company would drive small businesses with expensive insurance claims to dump their Cigna policies. Industry executives refer to the practice as “purging,” Potter said.

“When that business comes up for renewal, the underwriters jack the rates up so much, the employer has no choice but to drop insurance,” Potter said.

CNN obtained a transcript of a 2008 Cigna conference call with investors in which company executives use the term “purge.”

But in an e-mail to CNN, Cigna spokesman Chris Curran denied the company engages in purging.

“We do not practice that. We will offer rates that are reflective of the competitive group health insurance market. We always encourage our clients to compare our proposed rates to those available from other carriers,” Curran wrote.

Cigna had revenue of $ 19.1 billion in 2008, according to the company Web site.”

” “They conduct what I call duplicitous PR campaigns. They’ll say what people want to hear,” Potter says. “It’s how they operate. You cannot trust these guys.”

Potter is also taking aim at some of the TV commercials aired by groups opposed to changes. One such ad caught Potter’s eye. Run by the conservative organization Patients United Now, the ad says that “now, Washington wants to bring Canadian-style health care to the U.S.”

“Sometimes you’ll see misleading information. And sometimes you’ll see outright lies, like that [ad] is,” Potter said, referring to the spot.”

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/02/insurance.purging/index.html

Best answer:

Answer by Who’s Your Daddy Now
no we don’t. Any fool can see what’s going on. When these people get purged they go to Medicaid and the tax payer pays for it. The same tax payer who says he doesn’t want to pay for government health care, is already paying for government health care.
EDIT…23 min. and the single payer opponents don’t have a comeback.

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