Robin Beaton: This Is America And We Deserve Good Health Care
Today, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing entitled “Terminations of Individual Health Policies by Insurance Companies.” The hearing examined the practice of “post-claims underwriting,” which occurs when insurance companies cancel individual health insurance policies after providers submit claims for medical services rendered. Robin Beaton testified: In May 2008, I went to the dermatologist for acne. A word was written on my chart and interpreted incorrectly as meaning pre-cancerous. Shortly thereafter, I was diagnosed with Invasive HER-2 Genetic Breast Cancer, a very aggressive form of breast cancer. I was told I needed a double mastectomy. When the surgeons scheduled my surgery I was pre-certified for my two days hospitalization. The Friday before the Monday I was scheduled to have my double mastectomy, Blue Cross red flagged my chart due to the dermatologist report. The dermatologist called Blue Cross directly to report that I only had acne and please not hold up my coming surgery. Blue cross called me to inform me that they were launching a 5 year medical investigation into my medical History and that this would take approximately 3 months.
Posted: March 6th, 2010 under Insurance.
Tags: America, Beaton, Care, Deserve, Good, Health, Robin, This
Comments
Comment from HarlequinFilms
Time March 6, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Thank God for people like Joe Barton.
My husband is going through rescession with BCBS. One week after his approved surgery he laid helpless in bed wrapped bandages and while making a casual call to BCBS an agent told me that the insurance policy was rescended (cancelled). I had never heard that word before. She was rude and condescending to me, like she had scored a hit. It is immoral what insurance companies and LOBBISTS are doing to us regular people.
Comment from xiola6969
Time March 6, 2010 at 10:17 pm
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous,
We are oft to blame in this, Tis too much proved that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself.
Spare the Rod.
Let me tell you a story about a lady named…
Comment from xiola6969
Time March 6, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Barbara Wagner !!!, obamanites We will never let such tyranny in America this lady and her story and government run healthcare in Oregon speak volumes to the evils you wish to impose on the people, they refused her cancer treatment and offered to pay for her assisted suicide don’t believe it read about it on abc@com.
Comment from xiola6969
Time March 6, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Death panels this is what it will come to politicians in million dollar houses offering Barbara Wagner !!! assisted suicide over proper treatment so they can be rich. Do you think they would have denied the governor of Oregon the same treatment ? 41!! 41!!
Comment from Voodochild2007
Time March 6, 2010 at 11:49 pm
HAHA She can thank her white republican congressmen. Fuck this bitch. Hows that party working out for you now bitch.
Comment from MrRockhardman
Time March 7, 2010 at 12:23 am
This is Anmerica and we deserve good healthcare IF WE WANT IT! Fuck Obama and his bullshit!
Comment from numnunums
Time March 7, 2010 at 12:55 am
@Alfrunk Canada’s banks are healthier than ours because they’re regulated.
It’s not my fault that government is beholdened to private interests. Take money out of politics and the system will fix itself but it’s quite stupid to assume all government is evil when only ours needs fixing.
Comment from Alfrunk
Time March 7, 2010 at 12:57 am
Wow another misguided goofball canadian trying to tell everyone how to live. Your facts are so off it’s not even worth debating. “Canada: Land of the not quite right.”
Comment from Alfrunk
Time March 7, 2010 at 1:36 am
I know facts may not be your strong suit, but if you bothered to read the bill you would see that they WILL ration care. Try informing yourself, you may not embarrass yourself as much.
Comment from Alfrunk
Time March 7, 2010 at 2:21 am
Wow your lack of comprehension is astounding. Who rewards the companies that fuck up? GOVERNMENT. Where did the fuck up companies get their bailouts? God I hate having to explain the obvious to simple minded goofs like you. And that’s not hate it’s truth, regardless of how you feel about it. Effeminate weirdo.
Comment from numnunums
Time March 7, 2010 at 3:20 am
The best part is when government makes a mistake it corrects itself through public backlash.
When companies fuck up they get rewarded for it.
So yeah I trust the government over corporations. I respect your insult though for it shows that you’re on the wrong side of history due to your hate.
Comment from skippypithie
Time March 7, 2010 at 3:42 am
Alfrunk, have you listened to this testimony? Acne is an inflammatory condition. It’d be appropriate to make a note that chronic inflammatory condition may, if untreated, lead to a malignancy. The insurance company used that generic statement to deny treatment for a type of breast cancer which has a well understood genetic cause. It’s aggressive, that’s all in the textbooks. Maybe if there was a public option that need would have been met
Comment from skippypithie
Time March 7, 2010 at 3:49 am
alfrunk, I do not love hearing from the economically illiterate right, who fail to understand this simple fact. It was the economic policies you promoted which led to the current recession! Some of us are trying to help the people your policies hurt. You are simply trying to tell them “it wasn’t me! A big boy did it and ran away”
Comment from skippypithie
Time March 7, 2010 at 4:08 am
repukeslie7, Insurance companies are not the villains because they pay their CEO’s to much? If I’m aiming for a 4% profit margin, as in dividends to my shareholders. If I score high then I can cream off the rest for myself. The more claims I can deny the more money for me. The insurance company is the villain because they collude to earn that extra profit.
Comment from skippypithie
Time March 7, 2010 at 4:34 am
You do have health care in the US. It’s how you ration it that’s at issue. As it stands access to health care in the US is rationed solely by the effect on the profitability of the policy for the insurance company. Introducing a public option means they have to change their business model to compete on access. You want to get treatment quicker, take out a policy. You want to wait go public.
Comment from Alfrunk
Time March 7, 2010 at 5:01 am
Kinda like how your beloved government is advising postponement of mammograms until age 50? What a great entity to have in charge of health care, huh you parasitic slackass??
Comment from Alfrunk
Time March 7, 2010 at 5:46 am
We have healthcare in the US. The government will not fix anything. You people are idiots if you think it can or will.
Comment from Alfrunk
Time March 7, 2010 at 5:49 am
Ahhh love hearing from the compassionate, logical left.
Comment from younghippo
Time March 7, 2010 at 6:28 am
Literally kill all health insurance CEOs. Drag them into the streets and murder them.
Comment from mhollis
Time March 7, 2010 at 7:01 am
Insurance companies spread lies that the legislation would include “Death Panels.” The real “Death Panels” are at Insurance companies holding private policies (that are paid up!) where their clients have a catastrophic illness and they try (as they did with Robin) to “get rid of” them.
“Getting rid of them” means certain death. That’s not a death panel but a hit squad.
Comment from ToolFan68
Time March 7, 2010 at 7:12 am
That is complete and utter BULLSHIT bro.
Comment from MINGO4445
Time March 7, 2010 at 7:23 am
Nice country you have. Real nice country.
BRAVO ! The world is looking at you.
Comment from repukeslie7
Time March 7, 2010 at 7:57 am
Insurance companies, for their faults, are not the villain here…they operate on a less than 4% profit margin…..the government operates in a deficit….
Their profit margins would be higher if they didn’t pay their CEOs $1.6 BILLION (no typo there.) That is what United Healthcare’s Bill McGuire made in 1 year. Why should insurance companies be making one dime off the backs of people’s misery and deaths? Get rid of them They are the real death panels.
Comment from thomasw78
Time March 7, 2010 at 8:08 am
Now imagine health insurance and employment aren’t tied together (the way they wouldn’t be in a truly capitalist society). And imagine because of the millions of people who don’t have insurance there is a huge profit motive for an entrepreneur to provide an affordable insurance plan to said millions. And imagine other entrepreneurs following his example do the same. Now imagine there are thousands of options for people to choose exactly the kind of care they want. Sadly, this is an analogy.
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Comment from cjm608
Time March 6, 2010 at 9:04 pm
as i watch this tears are streaming down my face. my god, can you imagine what this poor woman went thru. can you imagine being told you have breast cancer,and your insurance company dropping you a week before surgery. what words can i say? how to define my anger?