Private insurance, most efficient , cost effective funding of Healthcare ?

blue note · Jul 15, 2009, 04:56 PM

Re: Private insurance, most efficient , cost effective funding of Healthcare ?

Originally Posted by nicurn001

I wish we could ( on both sides of this debate ) find unbiased sources to go over ( factually ) what this plan is . If as some may argue the plan is not fully formed , remember we are at present discussing what may be, and will omly be able to debate the reality when it is presented .

Here you go:

Side-by-side comparison of major health care reform proposals

**HM2VikingRN** · Jul 20, 2009, 09:59 AM

Re: Private insurance, most efficient , cost effective funding of Healthcare ?

*herring_RN* · Jul 22, 2009, 08:13 AM

Re: Private insurance, most efficient , cost effective funding of Healthcare ?

Nurse Wages Battle with Insurer Over Policy Cancellation

Robin Beaton, RN, worked as a nurse for 30 years in labor and delivery, the MICU-CCU, ED, and NICU at Parkland County Hospital and Methodist Central Hospital in Texas.

"I liked to be where the action was," she said from an antique mall in Fort Worth where she sells antiques in her retirement.

But after all those years of caring for patients who were injured, ill, or dying, Beaton, 59, almost didn’t get the double mastectomy she needed when she was diagnosed in June 2008 with HER2 positive breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease.

Beaton, who lives in Waxahachie, Texas, was not among the approximately 45 million Americans who do not have health insurance. In fact, Beaton, a retired nurse, purchased an individual health insurance policy in December of 2007 through Blue Cross and Blue Shield and paid the $400 premium every month.

Yet she was denied treatment for her breast cancer — the very first claim she had made on the policy — because her insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, canceled her entire policy after she made the claim.

Insurance officials told her they canceled her coverage because she had failed to inform them about a visit to a dermatologist for acne. The company interpreted a word in the dermatologist’s notes to mean she had a precancerous condition. The dermatologist himself called the insurance company and told officials they were wrong, and that Beaton did not have a precancerous condition. ...

http://news.nurse.com/article/200907...1/-1/frontpage

Patient_Care_Asst · Jul 26, 2009, 05:14 PM

Re: Private insurance, most efficient , cost effective funding of Healthcare ?

Private insurance is probobly the most efficient, cost effective method of funding healthcare services for the American public today....

...Just ask the 46 million Americans who don't have any.

(Dripping in sarcasm

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