http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/01/09/medicare-is-under-attack-but-you-cant-tell-it-by-most-press-coverage/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:22:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/01/09/medicare-is-under-attack-but-you-cant-tell-it-by-most-press-coverage/#comment-9706 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:18:32 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/01/09/medicare-is-under-attack-but-you-cant-tell-it-by-most-press-coverage/#comment-9706 Excellent update. Private insurers and quality healthcare is an oxymoron. Not mentioned is how private insurers will cut bona fide payments by a percentage just to increase their bottom line. I had a CIGNA group plan in Illinois that refused to pay contractually covered expenses. They were a big corporation and I was a very sick individual. Fortunately, Illinois has a advocacy group under the Attorney General's office that went to bat for me. CIGNA tried to bamboozle them, but my expenses were finally paid. I then contacted the attorney general to report similar unpaid claims (up to 2 years old) for other Illinois members of that group plan. Soon CIGNA issued a flood of payments. Private insurers do not belong in the healthcare system. Excellent update. Private insurers and quality healthcare is an oxymoron. Not mentioned is how private insurers will cut bona fide payments by a percentage just to increase their bottom line. I had a CIGNA group plan in Illinois that refused to pay contractually covered expenses. They were a big corporation and I was a very sick individual. Fortunately, Illinois has a advocacy group under the Attorney General’s office that went to bat for me. CIGNA tried to bamboozle them, but my expenses were finally paid. I then contacted the attorney general to report similar unpaid claims (up to 2 years old) for other Illinois members of that group plan. Soon CIGNA issued a flood of payments. Private insurers do not belong in the healthcare system.

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