Health coverage 'plan' was no insurance at all

Sources for this allegation?

I don't think the timelines support that comment....The larger issue was that this couple was a victim of fraud....

But Britain itself is Bankrupt because of the "free" healthcare.

Not only do they deny claims they do so more often than private insurance.

http://healthcare-economist.com/2008...alth-insurers/

No but we do need a transparent "plain language" insurance marketplace. If nothing else health care reform and the exchanges will improve transparency of the products.

Taxpayers will end up eating the 50K if the couple goes into bankruptcy.

She did do her homework,,,,,(From the source...)




They were "bait and switched..."

Yeah, and what I call criminal is paying $440 a month for health insurance through my employer that pays....for......NOTHING!!!

That's right. I have had this insurance for a year, paid thousands of dollars into it.........and they are refusing to cover any of the expenses for my hyperparathyroidism, which have already topped a thousand bucks and continue to mount. We haven't even gotten to the DEXA scan and the renal U/S I just had a couple of weeks ago, let alone the surgery I'm going to need. Why? Well, according to them it's a "pre-existing condition", even though I have never been officially diagnosed with the condition until now.

Somebody please, tell me how in the name of all that is reasonable can an insurance company get away with ripping off consumers, month after month after month, and NOT having to provide the services we are paying for??!! And how is that moral, or right, or even good business?? My husband and I are already in so deep from having so many medical expenses over the past year for our REAL pre-existing conditions that I don't see us ever getting out from under the crushing debt load..........of course the hospitals and doctor's offices never bill us for everything all at once so we never really know just how much we owe them, but I know it's in the tens of thousands and probably will reach six figures before this particular episode of my life is over.

I feel like I'm shoveling (insert vulgar term for 'feces' here) against the tide when I pay my co-pays at the time of service and then open up the bills two months afterwards to find that my insurance company has denied yet another claim. This is what has convinced me---a political conservative in almost every other way---that single-payer health care is the ONLY way for middle- and lower-income people to survive financially, at least if they're past 35 and have a few medical issues.

I think you all know I work hard and play by the rules; I'm not lazy, looking for handouts, or trying to cheat the system. So how is it that some folks evidently think it's perfectly OK for an insurance company to cheat ME??!!

Just venting.........I am really, really ANGRY about this and it mystifies me that anyone can possibly justify the continuation of this evil non-system in light of the fact that it's not just "the poor and lazy" who are going bankrupt here.

I am angry that this is happening to you. It is NOT fair. We need to have healthcare for everyone. But insurance does not = guaranteed healthcare.

And that my friend is what you will get. A requirement to purchase private healthcare insurance. The same insurance you have now. Except you will HAVE to purchase something.

It remains to be seen whether or not whether or not we will have a mandate. I'm hoping that if is a mandate is imposed, a robust public option is offered so that those of us uncomfortable with complete and total profit-driven interests no longer control our health care system. We have some things right in the US, but, we have a ways to get yet regarding "loving thy neighbor".

A government run program is hardly a "loving thy neighbor". The government has never given us anything without us paying for it.

From the looks of things yesterday there is a mandate and it's not for UHC.