Expose’: United Health Group
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August 25, 2009 MSNBC Keith Olbermann
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Of concern as well …
Of concern as well is the MIB GROUP which exposes private medical records to background checks for employment. Also needing to be addressed are the charging practices of the doctors’ and specialists’ offices. We shouldn’t have to be an insurance company to be concerned that a charge is sent to an insurance company when a patient steps in the door to say “hello” (barely an exxageration).
@geevivica YOUR …
@geevivica YOUR STUPID. DO RESEACH
My Mom Patricia …
My Mom Patricia Rigney died because United Health Care was her insurance company. My Dad was put under incredible stress and fear of going bankrupt by their horrid business practices. To say that they engaged in Breach of Contract would be the least of it. These bastards had better pray there’s a cause if there’s not then they’re gonna have to deal with me and there will be a big difference between their worst nightmares and the justice they deserve for the murder of such a good person
Ermengarde11 – Get …
Ermengarde11 – Get off your soap box. If our country has such terrible health care, then when do so many rich, sick bastards from all over the world come here to find a cure? And FYI – Those ‘tens of millions’ you spout off about, MOST CAN afford it and choose not to buy it. Another portion are illegals and don’t deserve it. Which leaves us with 12-18 Mil. without. So let’s get real here. For 12-18 Mil we can’t come up with a better option than sinking ourselves trillions into debt?
We need to cut UHC …
We need to cut UHC and all the other providers and have the government do one thing…pay the health care providers. Not take over, just take taxes from citizens and pay it back to health care providers. Pretty simple and amazingly cost effective. You can’t fix the situation of a fox in the chickenhouse by allowing the fox to steal less chickens.!
Given our …
Given our remarkable medical assets-the best-educated doctors&nurses, the most advanced hospitals,world-class research-the United States could be, &should be, the best in the world. To get there,though, we have t2B willing to learn some lessons about health-care administration from other industrialized democracies.
T.R. Reid,a former Washington Post reporter,is the author of”The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.”Published Aug20, 2009
SOURCE:FARP
contd:Which, in …
contd:Which, in turn, punctures the most persistent myth of all: that America has “the finest health care” in the world. We don’t. In terms of results, almost all advanced countries have better national health statistics than the United States does. In terms of finance, we force 700,000 Americans into bankruptcy each year because of medical bills. In France, the number of medical bankruptcies is zero. Britain: zero. Japan: zero. Germany: zero.
cont’d: And for the …
cont’d: And for the tens of millions without insurance coverage, we’re Burundi or Burma: In the world’s poor nations, sick people pay out of pocket for medical care; those who can’t pay stay sick or die.
This fragmentation is another reason that we spend more than anybody else and still leave millions without coverage. All the other developed countries have settled on one model for health-care delivery and finance; we’ve blended them all into a costly, confusing bureaucratic mess.
source:FARP
contd:For Native …
contd:For Native Americans or veterans, we’re Britain: The government provides health care, funding it through general taxes, &patients get no bills. For people who get insurance through their jobs,we’re Germany: Premiums are split between workers &employers,&private insurance plans pay private doctors and hospitals. For people over 65,we’re Canada: Everyone pays premiums for an insurance plan run by the government,&the public plan pays private doctors&hospitals according to a set fee schedule.
contd:The corollary …
contd:The corollary is that everyone is mandated to buy insurance,to give the plans an adequate pool of rate-payers.
The key difference is that foreign health insurance plans exist only to pay people’s medical bills,not to make a profit. The United States is the only developed country that lets insurance companies profit from basic health coverage.
In many ways,foreign health-care models are not really “foreign”2America, because our crazy-quilt health-care system uses elements of all of them.
(cont’d)The …
(cont’d)The companies say they have to do this stuff to survive in a tough business.
Foreign health insurance companies, in contrast, must accept all applicants, and they can’t cancel as long as you pay your premiums. The plans are required to pay any claim submitted by a doctor or hospital (or health spa), usually within tight time limits. The big Swiss insurer Groupe Mutuel promises to pay all claims within five days. “Our customers love it,” the group’s chief executive told me. SOURCE;FARP
MYTH:Health …
MYTH:Health insurance has to be cruel.
Not really. American health insurance companies routinely reject applicants with a “preexisting condition” – precisely the people most likely to need the insurers’ service. They employ armies of adjusters to deny claims. If a customer is hit by a truck and faces big medical bills, the insurer’s “rescission department” digs through the records looking for grounds to cancel the policy, often while the victim is still in the hospital.
SOURCE: FARP
Overseas, strict …
Overseas, strict cost controls actually drive innovation. In the United States, an MRI scan of the neck region costs about $1,500. In Japan, the identical scan costs $98. Under the pressure of cost controls, Japanese researchers found ways to perform the same diagnostic technique for one-fifteenth the American price. (And Japanese labs still make a profit.)
Myth: Cost controls …
Myth: Cost controls stifle innovation.
FALSE! The United States is home 2groundbreaking medical research, but so are other countries with much lower cost structures. Any American who’s had a hip or knee replacement is standing on French innovation. Deep-brain stimulation 2treat depression is a Canadian breakthrough. Many of the wonder drugs promoted endlessly on American television including Viagra come from British,Swiss or Japanese labs.
WE NEED UHC 2control costs&improve quality/innovation.
The world champion …
The world champion at controlling medical costs is Japan,even though its aging population is a profligate consumer of medical care. On average,the Japanese go to the doctor 15 times a year, 3times the U.S. rate. They have twice as many MRI scans &X-rays. Quality is high; life expectancy &recovery rates for major diseases are better than in the United States. And yet Japan spends about $3,400 per person annually on health care;the United States spends more than $7,000.
WE NEED UHC 2cut waste.
Canada’s universal …
Canada’s universal insurance system, run by government bureaucrats, spends 6 percent on administration. In Taiwan, a leaner version of the Canadian model has administrative costs of 1.5 percent; one year, this figure ballooned to 2 percent, and the opposition parties savaged the government for wasting money.
In the US we spend 20%, so who’s smart now? We WASTE most of that 20% (private insurers that is). We need UHC.
I refused to reply …
I refused to reply to that post, which was directed to me. I’ve fed this anarchist America-hating troll long enough! Yes he just find find a turn of fate in his life that will make him regret his words.
” But for the grace of God ” . . . .
And you are just …
And you are just plain rude. If you can’t have a constructive discussion without the profanity and name calling, go to a right wing website and agree with everybody there who’s also in the dark.
You are extemely immature. If you act constructively, you can contribute to a productive resolution to this issue that 70% of Americans want resolved. Otherwise you’re just wasting you God-given gifts to help improve our country.
Grow up.
Wrong, he speaks …
Wrong, he speaks the blunt truth and some people can’t handle the truth so they resort to callingnames instead of having a constructive discussion.
U.S. health [ ...
U.S. health [private] insurance companies have the highest administrative costs in the world; they spend roughly 20 cents of every dollar for nonmedical costs, such as paperwork, reviewing claims &marketing. France’s health insurance industry, in contrast, covers everybody &spends about 4 percent on administration.
Source: Florida Assn. of Retired People.
We are ranked 37th in the world overall, behind Slovinia. &we’re supposed 2B the greatest country in the world. We waste too much.
Olbermann is a …
Olbermann is a sniveling partisan jackass. An utter hack if there ever was one. I don’t believe a word that comes out of his pie hole, and I’m sure there are two sides to this story as well.
“I don’t know much” …
“I don’t know much”
“Ron Paul is against it, so I’m against it.”
“I have no idea what that is”
Yeah, you sound *very* enlightened!
Do you need a hand patching the holes in your glass house?
NASA has been …
NASA has been successful in many ways, but they have received much negativity over the years due to wasteful spending.
I don’t know much about the DOA. Ron Paul is against it, so I’m against it.
FDA…what a bunch of clowns. They allow the release of dangerous drugs.
US Post Office is bankrupt. Has been for years.
NHTSA is as useless as it sounds.
I have no idea what the DARRA is.
So many Government programs….thousands…I couldn’t name half of them.
What are you …
What are you replying to, exactly?
Are you …
Are you kidding me?
Do you even think before you speak? You have to be the stupidest person on the planet.