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Wed Feb 02, 2011 at 07:26:06 AM MST
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Dad always said "It is far cheaper to advertise, than litigate" so in the spirit of that advice I have a tale to tell about my wife's battle with CVS Caremark, which is the prescription management service that her employer Staples offers to its employees. The medical details of this are a little gross, so bear with me on it, I promise not to dwell on them more than needed to make the point.
Liz has kind of a lot of medical issues. She fell down on the job managing a restaurant and has had to take a lot of different meds to get back to being able to work. As part of this process it has really messed up her digestion. She has IBS (irritable bowl syndrome) and a hiatal hernia. As a result she had had to take a combination of meds so that she can actually go to the bathroom.
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Sun Apr 25, 2010 at 10:54:53 AM MST
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I have written in the past in this space of my dismay that a number of states and the District of Columbia allowed health insurance companies to rescind existing policies to women in abusive relationships as evidence of pre-existing conditions. Now, WellPoint Insurance is in the news for breaking contracts with women who are identified as having breast cancer. H.R. 3590, the new health care reform bill, has a provision to protect patients and a fine of $100 a day if such a violation occurs---but there is no adjudication or enforcement mechanism in the act. HHS has been assigned the task of developing guidelines in this area. On April 22, Secretary Sibelius wrote to WellPoint deploring this activity. I view this as a pretty weak response and $100-a-day fine as a pathetic punishment.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 at 06:59:52 AM MST
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American style football is a brutal sport. Every single play sees bodies smashing together, sees someone getting either flung or dragged to the ground. Then they all get up and do it again, and again, and again. Even with helmets and padding there are injuries. Knees are blown out, shoulders are dislocated. Every game, even when there is not an injury that stops the game, is an assault on the muscles, joints and brains of nearly all the players (kickers get off easier, most of the time).
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Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 08:14:33 AM MST
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I spend a lot of time on Huffington Post as a way to get most of my news aggregated into one place. So beginning with a new HP story from Dan Froomkin.
Link Here
As we discuss HCR for the next few years, something to think about when dealing with Insurance Companies. They are for profit, their focus is to make profit. Not to provide competent care, not to provide a valuable service, not anything else, except in service of profit. The shareholders have rights too and to hell with those sick people. I know, that is hyperbole, but its starting to look like they are thinking along those lines. The Insurance companies are looking to extract as much as they can before they have to provide any form of reimbursement or payment for claims.
In the short run, companies are expected to keep doing what they've been doing, which means, among other things, jacking up their rates. "There's nothing to stop them from raising their premiums, and that's what they're going to do," said [Marcia Angell, a former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine who now teaches at Harvard Medical School], a supporter of "single-payer" health insurance.
More below the fold.
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Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 08:37:16 AM MST
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As I watched the HCR debate rage on this weekend, it occurred to me that the coverage was a bit obtuse a times. It also occurred to me how tired I am of listening to the scare tactics of the right and the left. It seemed that the passage of the Senate version of HCR was more important than not having a bill passed. It isn't perfect but President Obama has spent too much time in getting it passed and he needs his payoff. He needs to show that he can lead his own party. I am happy to see this bill finally come to sort of resolution.
Yesterday, certainly a day of high drama but with the passage of the bill this will stop giving companies excuses of why they are not hiring. Stating that they have no idea what their outcome is going to be until this debate is over is no longer valid. If they are going to hire, they are going to hire--period.
Anyway, I am new to SquareState and I am beginning to figure the ins and outs of it.
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