Alan, thank you for another in your series about our patchwork, for-profit healthcare system. Today you documented the insurance industry’s use of denials of 20% of claims with only 35% appealed and most of the resubmitted claims paid as a coldly calculated tactic to use blood money to increase profits. I appreciate your showing that politicians warning that “death panels” would deny life-saving care is cover for profiteers denying life-saving treatment without transparent accounting of how such decisions are made. You also write that some of our representatives are reaping large contributions for blocking healthcare reform. I look forward to your documenting the millions paid to c suite healthcare executives. This is a call to contact our elected representatives to vote for Medicare for all, a common-sense solution that is successfully practiced by advanced countries too all of their citizens at 2/3 of our cost, when 10% of Americans go without any healthcare coverage.
Thanks Gary - I will be singing long and loud for a while about this one. As I recall we even had a senator who had been a healthcare executive. There is a goal to this strategy and it is to make representatives uncomfortable maintaining the status quo. When our voices shame them enough they will vote the way we want.
Alan, thank you for another in your series about our patchwork, for-profit healthcare system. Today you documented the insurance industry’s use of denials of 20% of claims with only 35% appealed and most of the resubmitted claims paid as a coldly calculated tactic to use blood money to increase profits. I appreciate your showing that politicians warning that “death panels” would deny life-saving care is cover for profiteers denying life-saving treatment without transparent accounting of how such decisions are made. You also write that some of our representatives are reaping large contributions for blocking healthcare reform. I look forward to your documenting the millions paid to c suite healthcare executives. This is a call to contact our elected representatives to vote for Medicare for all, a common-sense solution that is successfully practiced by advanced countries too all of their citizens at 2/3 of our cost, when 10% of Americans go without any healthcare coverage.
Thanks Gary - I will be singing long and loud for a while about this one. As I recall we even had a senator who had been a healthcare executive. There is a goal to this strategy and it is to make representatives uncomfortable maintaining the status quo. When our voices shame them enough they will vote the way we want.