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Health insurance 100% bureaucracy, 1000% avarice

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Contributed by: Andy Schaeffer on 1/12/2008

Insurance companies...you gotta love them. With ethics that would make the mob blush, they keep rejecting, stalling and denying.

You just know they've done studies...deny XX% of initial claims and make the appeal process laborious, and a certain (profitable) percentage of people will just plain give up and pay the claim themselves (especially if it involves minor amounts of money) or simply die before there is a resolution.

Recently, as a result of my annual physical, a certain number of lab tests were done. And the claim was denied, based on the fact that the work was done on somebody not covered on the policy.
covered on the policy, and in fact, the tests were done on me.

A coupla weeks later, I got a letter in the mail from the insurance company (whose identity will be disguised to protect the venal, but which rhymes with "Schmoo Cross, Schmoo Shield".)

They informed me that, because of the "complexity" of the issue, they would need extra time to resolve it.

Resolution, it seems to me, is simple; either I'm me, and covered, or not me, and not covered.

And in the mean time, the laboratory keeps sending me bills.

So don't try to tell me a 'Universal Health Plan' would be disastrous, bogged down with bureaucracy and sloth...I'd take my chances any day if I could get away from venality, avarice and calculated greed.

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