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If you can't cancel one health insurance plan, cancel them all.

Started by AFK, October 16, 2009, 02:20:53 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

#15
October 16, 2009, 03:44:19 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2009, 03:42:57 PM
Anybody want to do some digging and find out if anyone had called this during the elections?

:wave:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#16
October 16, 2009, 03:44:46 PM
...Thus Spake The Prophet.

The Good Reverend Roger

#17
October 16, 2009, 03:45:15 PM
Quote from: RWH1N1 on October 16, 2009, 03:19:55 PM
At this point it's pretty damn clear to me Congress ain't going to do jack shit to help us.  Sure you have a Grayson or a Wiener here and there who champion meaningful reform, but they are drowned out by the Baucaus and the Landrieu's who only want tepid reform that won't really do anything, but, it's something to pad their resume.  But I know I'm preaching to the choir here.  We all knew this was going to happen when they started this process.  I think we all pretty much called it.  The Dems cave to the GOP and Health Insurance lobby.  Fuck, we could've written this script a year ago and we would've pretty much been spot on.  So that means it's up to the "Teh American People!", and we've seen how reliable THEY are.  I just don't know.  I think there are just too damn many NIMBY's for anything to ever change.  

We need to do another letter writing campaign.  We haven't done one since 2004, IIRC.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#18
October 16, 2009, 03:45:51 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2009, 03:44:46 PM
...Thus Spake The Prophet.

No divine powers were required for that one.   :lulz:

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Jenne

#19
October 16, 2009, 05:24:17 PM


"if you can't pay a million dollars in medical bills you deserve to die anyway"

Kai

#20
October 16, 2009, 05:32:02 PM
again, piled higher and deeper
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Dimocritus

#21
October 16, 2009, 06:21:19 PM
This kind of stuff infuriates me.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 16, 2009, 03:45:15 PM
We need to do another letter writing campaign.  We haven't done one since 2004, IIRC.

I'm down. What's the plan.
Episkopos of GABCab ~ "caecus plumbum caecus"

The Good Reverend Roger

#22
October 16, 2009, 06:35:27 PM
Quote from: Dimo1138 on October 16, 2009, 06:21:19 PM
This kind of stuff infuriates me.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 16, 2009, 03:45:15 PM
We need to do another letter writing campaign.  We haven't done one since 2004, IIRC.

I'm down. What's the plan.

Well, the last one, about 50 of us wrote the ex-speaker, Newt Gingrich, and said all manner of horrible things...usually in the form of "congratulatory" letters inducting him into various organizations (Mine was The Loyal Order of Robert McNamara).

I can see something similar here, to the jackass who made the "dog" comment.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#23
October 16, 2009, 09:35:18 PM

QuoteIt is still legal in nine states for insurers to reject applicants who are survivors of domestic violence, citing the history of domestic violence as a pre-existing condition.

http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/denied_coverage/index.html
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#24
October 16, 2009, 09:38:09 PM
QuoteLosing Coverage When You Need It Most
Thousands of Americans also lose health insurance each year through a practice called rescission.

When a person is diagnosed with an expensive condition such as cancer, some insurance companies review his/her initial health status questionnaire. In most states' individual insurance market, insurance companies can retroactively cancel the entire policy if any condition was missed – even if the medical condition is unrelated, and even if the person was not aware of the condition at the time. Coverage can also be revoked for all members of a family, even if only one family member failed to disclose a medical condition.10

A recent Congressional investigation into this practice found nearly 20,000 rescissions from three large insurers over five years, saving them $300 million in medical claims11 – $300 million that instead had to come out of the pockets of people who thought they were insured, or became bad debt for health care providers.

At least one insurance company has been found to evaluate employee performance based in part on the amount of money an employee saved the company through rescissions.12 Simply put, these insurance company employees are encouraged to revoke sick people's health coverage.

http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/denied_coverage/index.html
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Remington

#25
October 16, 2009, 09:59:39 PM
I think a side of insurance CEO shishkabob will go nicely with banker tenderloin, eh?

Always more room on the plate.
Is it plugged in?

Requia ☣

#26
October 16, 2009, 10:00:46 PM
Remind me again why getting insurance is supposed to be useful?
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The Good Reverend Roger

#27
October 16, 2009, 10:02:49 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 16, 2009, 10:00:46 PM
Remind me again why getting insurance is supposed to be useful?

Shut up.  Eat your Big Mac.

This message brought to you by the good people that own your ass.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Dimocritus

#28
October 16, 2009, 11:35:25 PM


Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 16, 2009, 03:45:15 PM
I can see something similar here, to the jackass who made the "dog" comment.

Do we know who this tool-box is?
Episkopos of GABCab ~ "caecus plumbum caecus"

The Good Reverend Roger

#29
October 16, 2009, 11:55:59 PM
Quote from: Dimo1138 on October 16, 2009, 11:35:25 PM


Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 16, 2009, 03:45:15 PM
I can see something similar here, to the jackass who made the "dog" comment.

Do we know who this tool-box is?

Trying to find out.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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