What Do You Mean My Doctor Is Dead?

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anyone who claims the government can't handle health care as well as private enterprise hasn't yet been assigned a dead person for a doctor. but that's exactly what happened this week to monica, an employee of mine.

when monica opened her anthem/blue cross health insurance packet on monday, she expected to see the name of her own doctor, who she had verified as 'in network' by telephone with blue cross before she left for the holidays.

instead, she saw the name of a doctor who she had never heard of, and who had died in early september of 2008 (that second tidbit was only revealed after a series of phone calls with the deceased doctor's office, some barely-english speaking blue cross representatives and some cursory google searching)....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-berliner/what-do-you-mean-my-docto_b_416916.html

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anyone who claims the government can't handle health care as well as private enterprise hasn't yet been assigned a dead person for a doctor. but that's exactly what happened this week to monica, an employee of mine.

when monica opened her anthem/blue cross health insurance packet on monday, she expected to see the name of her own doctor, who she had verified as 'in network' by telephone with blue cross before she left for the holidays.

instead, she saw the name of a doctor who she had never heard of, and who had died in early september of 2008 (that second tidbit was only revealed after a series of phone calls with the deceased doctor's office, some barely-english speaking blue cross representatives and some cursory google searching)....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-berliner/what-do-you-mean-my-docto_b_416916.html

huffingtonpost. far left.

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My insurance switched my PCP on me several months ago. I'm reluctant to make an appointment with the new doc for fear of what I'll find out. I heard a rumor though that this person is in practice.

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My insurance switched my PCP on me several months ago. I'm reluctant to make an appointment with the new doc for fear of what I'll find out. I heard a rumor though that this person is in practice.

With a government run healthcare system there might not be any doctors willing to accept you. It's happened in Massachusetts. So would it be better to have a doc to go to or none?

What happens when your doc moves away? Do you just not have a doc or do you go to a new one?

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I've gone for years at a time with no doc when I didn't have insurance in effect. This turned out to be disastrous for me one time.

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I've gone for years at a time with no doc when I didn't have insurance in effect. This turned out to be disastrous for me one time.

So you had a choice.

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anyone who claims the government can't handle health care as well as private enterprise hasn't yet been assigned a dead person for a doctor. but that's exactly what happened this week to monica, an employee of mine.

when monica opened her anthem/blue cross health insurance packet on monday, she expected to see the name of her own doctor, who she had verified as 'in network' by telephone with blue cross before she left for the holidays.

instead, she saw the name of a doctor who she had never heard of, and who had died in early september of 2008 (that second tidbit was only revealed after a series of phone calls with the deceased doctor's office, some barely-english speaking blue cross representatives and some cursory google searching)….

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-berliner/what-do-you-mean-my-docto_b_416916.html

omg too funny. ss sends millions of dollars out every year to dead people. lol http://www.wbaltv.com/money/19435100/detail.html ya have to read the comments. one commentor states the feds had 43 years to clean up their data and they couldn't do it. june deadline is an excuse. lol

so the insurance company hadn't up dated it's database. have you ever gone to a website and found information that's years old? do you suppose the insurance company calls every office every day to see if the doc is still alive. docs die too they aren't god.

isn't our government an equaly opportunity employer. i'm sure we get barely english-speaking representatives when we talk to them also.

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Well, there goes the myth of "choice" in the current system.

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