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Topic: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield halts anesthesia payment policy after backlash
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teasel
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posted December 07, 2024 02:11 AM
  
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield halts anesthesia payment policy after backlashThe health insurer planned to cap the length of time anesthesia can be covered during medical procedures in three states, prompting outrage. http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-time-limits-anesthesia-surgery-rcna183035
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THEY WERE PLANNING TO CAP PAYOUTS FOR ANESTHESIA, SO IF YOUR SURGERY WASN'T OVER IN TIME, WELP, THAT WASN'T THEIR PROBLEM. IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted December 07, 2024 02:13 AM
Oh, but they only backtracked in NYC. The same city where a CEO was assassinated, for his running the worst insurance company in this country. People in Connecticut and Missouri, can apparently still go **** themselves. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 07, 2024 09:52 AM
You don’t know why he was murdered. Oh, great one, who knows more than all the police forces investigating the crime combined, tell us where the murderer can be found, and while you’re at it, tell us the lottery numbers.IP: Logged |
Belage
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posted December 08, 2024 08:45 PM
^^^ It is apparent his murder was some kind of retribution. The police reports that on the shell casing the following words were written:Deny Delay Depose Delay and Deny are typical of insurance policies shameless tactics to avoid paying for services... IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 08, 2024 10:50 PM
The FBI is involved now. They think that could be a red herring to throw us off. IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted December 09, 2024 04:52 AM
So many stories out there of insurance companies being vicious ******** , letting people die, and I haven’t seen condemnation here. But you guys would go on with lies about the NHS in the UK, and other countries. I just heard something from a woman in Australia, who went through something big and scary, and only had to pay $20. Republicons are sick ***** , for keeping health care from everyone. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 09, 2024 01:44 PM
How are Republicans “keeping healthcare from everyone”? I thought Obamacare saved the world?IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted December 10, 2024 04:36 AM
This is a different company, and all of them consistently denying life-saving health care to people, is violence towards the citizens of this country. It just isn't seen that way, because $$$$$ is all that matters to some people.This company went the extra step of saying they wouldn't pay for all of the anesthesia needed in ONE surgery. It's ******* insane. I'm not down with people being shot, by the way, but I think it's weird that those who are up in arms over this, also praise politicians who give guns to their children, for Christmas - isn't that what Jesus would do, after all? - and supported Rittenhouse murdering protesters, and Daniel Penny killing a homeless person. I also remember some of you thinking it was just fine for people to run over protesters, with their car. because they were deliberately in the way. And you guys were fine with Greg Abbott pardoning a guy who did just that, in Texas. So, you can miss me with a thumbs-down, when I am pointing out that an insurance company was going to deny people the coverage for all of the anesthesia needed in ONE surgery (it would be bad enough if they only covered one surgery, and not all of them, if more than one was needed). And they are still doing this in two States! Do you think it's okay for an insurance company to do that, Randall? IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted December 10, 2024 04:48 AM
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Originally posted by Randall:
How are Republicans “keeping healthcare from everyone”? I thought Obamacare saved the world?
It still isn't national health care. I have friends who got help through the ACA - that rumpy wants to repeal - but I still couldn't afford it, due to pre-existing conditions, and this was after the election in 2016, when my mum had just died. I still don't have health care! When we last tried, they wanted us to pay so much every month, and that price went up from the first time we tried - and I was expected to have something like $9000 upfront. If I had that kind of money, I would have been able to take care of some things myself. I also recall rumpy saying that the UK's NHS was "on the table" in negotiations, and he backtracked fast, when he was reminded of how much the people of the UK love the NHS. IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted December 10, 2024 05:54 AM
I'm also old enough to remember when "economic anxiety" was the excuse for trump supporters attempting a coup - alongside how many members of the GOP? - on January 6th, 2021.Economic anxiety. Do you think healthcare wouldn't be a part of that? But they happily vote against anything that will actually help them - the Dem policies - just to own the libs. The price of eggs was a problem, but not healthcare? IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 10, 2024 08:02 AM
Obamacare is what drove up the price of healthcare for you and millions of others. The homeless guy you mentioned threatened to kill several people. Play silly games, win silly prizes. Plus, he was only restrained in the defense of others, which wasn’t even the cause of death. Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. Both are heroes. IP: Logged |
Belage
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posted December 10, 2024 10:43 AM
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Originally posted by teasel:
So many stories out there of insurance companies being vicious ******** , letting people die, and I haven’t seen condemnation here. But you guys would go on with lies about the NHS in the UK, and other countries. I just heard something from a woman in Australia, who went through something big and scary, and only had to pay $20. Republicons are sick ***** , for keeping health care from everyone.
I am honestly confused by your vitriol. We had 4 years of YOUR president and YOUR VP tinkering with healthcare and enacting mandates and edicts and not once did I hear YOU rant about insurance companies until this assassination attempt. I am beginning to smell a rat in all that brouhaha...
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