I got to thinking yesterday while working that Sen. Susan Collins & Sen. Olympia Snowe are so far up the health insurance industry’s asses….it’s causing them to not understand the plight of the uninsured (or the under-insured!) in our state and across this country. I figured the only way for them to really understand what is going on in the lives of the average American is if their constituents sent a copy of their unpaid medical bills to these Senators along with their income level to show them how the CHEAPER PUBLIC OPTION is the only option at this point!
Here’s an example of a bill to an American who had hand surgery after dislocating it. The final bill is @ $7,000 (click for larger view)….
Would the average American making $25,000/year be able to pay this bill? Depending on the situation….most likely not.
So what do you say? Tell those in your life who have medical bills piling up and who are on the verge of losing their home to send a copy of their medical bills to their Senators, because as we all know, it’s the Senate who seems to have a bug up their ass about the public insurance option. For some reason, they believe that catering to the health insurance companies is better for us. WRONG! We know better than that.WE NEED TO SHOW THEM THAT AMERICANS NEED A CHEAPER OPTION THAT COVERS EVERYTHING FROM BANDAIDS TO MAJOR SURGERY!
(CLICK HERE TO FIND THE NAME & ADDRESSES OF YOUR SENATORS FOR YOUR STATE)
I would send a copy of the bills to their Senate offices in Washington, DC instead of to their state offices. It will have more of an impact to send them to DC….a paper protest of sorts. 
I just paid my EMS bill of $50 resulting for a call in January 2008, nearly two years ago. I was having an asthma-like attack following a bout of bronchitis. My partner freaked out as I was gasping for each breath. If this is what waterboarding feels like, it was torture as with each breath, I would ask myself, “Is this the LAST one in my life?”
The firehouse is close by and the EMT’s were here within a couple of minutes. They got me settled as part of it was hyperventilation due to fear. They said they could take me to the ER but that I would probably have to wait several hours before seeing a doctor.
I phoned my nearby geriatric physician who told me to “come on in immediately” so I sent the EMT’s away. Since I didn’t take their $300 ambulance ride to the ER, it appears that Medicare and Aetna won’t pay just for the $50 housecall. So after fighting with my insurers, to prevent me being turned into collections and harming my credit, I just paid the $50 to stop the monthly billing letters!
You have a new client. Sally is a thirty-four year-old mother with two young children. She suffers from advanced ovarian cancer. Her hysterectomy was followed by rounds of conventional chemotherapy. Now, she is enjoying a period of remission. However, given the severity of her cancer, the remission will not last long. Her treating oncologist has told her that she has only a remote chance of surviving for as long as a year, and that conventional chemotherapy will not halt the spread of her cancer. The oncologist has described a treatment protocol administered by a nationally recognized cancer treatment center that offers hope. The procedure uses a combination of high dose chemotherapy supported by peripheral stem cell rescue (HDC/PSCR). The oncologist has referred Sally to the center for screening, and tests there show that the protocol should offer her a good chance for long term survival.
To halt the rapidly spreading cancer, Sally must begin treatment immediately. But when the medical center admissions coordinator applies to Sally’s insurance company for pre-admission certification of coverage, the claim is denied. The insurance carrier considers HDC/PSCR treatment for ovarian cancer to be “experimental” and “not medically necessary.” Sally cannot afford to pay the projected $100,000 cost of treatment herself, and without insurance coverage she cannot be treated. Without treatment, she will surely die.
- – Your worst nightmare.
Is this site parody?
I mean, even the dumbest, most dishonest, greed-for-others’ money-soaked moocher of a so-called “progressive” knows that the government denies more claims than any private carrier. Exhibit A
That’s an undeniable fact to people living in fact-based reality.
Don’t believe me? Argue with the American Medical Association…
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/368/reportcard.pdf
Or, is the AMA in the pocket of the republicans who somehow control everything on earth, even though they are powerless in both houses of congress?
This site HAS to be parody. The anger, hate, and sheer unalloyed stupidity is breathtaking.Exhibit B
Dufas Pig, thy name is hypocrisy.
American Medical Association? You mean the group that gives A MAJORITY OF CAMPAIGN MONEY TO THE RIGHT WINGERS?
The site you linked to IS A FRAUD. The End.
I have been on Medicare FIVE years and NEVER been denied once by government healthcare. Neither has my partner, retired USN who gets fine care from the VA. However, when I was still working, Humana used to fight my doctor tooth-and-nail trying to deny him prescribing me needed drugs, even tried to stop a scheduled colonoscopy a few years after I had a colostomy removing part of my lower colon due to it being full of tumors!
Our TROLL Darth Bacon knows not of what he speaks!
It seems the crap the guy claiming to be a dufas pig, is written by somebody who has NO statistical education at all, probably just a high schooler instead.
Because IF he had any statistical education he would KNOW you do not base comparisons when one party has, 6,938,431 records reviewed, and others had, only 4,975, or 20,487 records reviewed, which means either the two units used for comparison have no real world relationship, or they reviews of the very low numbers do not reveal the entire picture.
In fact more medicare records were reviewed then ALL other insurance companies combined, so either medicare is the sum total of most of the medical care reimbursement in the USA or the study is flawed on statistical grounds.
Nice try bozo,
but EPIC FAIL as usual.
Medicare approved both an MRI and a scheduled colonoscopy last year and just paid my surgeon $18,500 of a $18,788 bill to rebreak my arm in August, putting in a bone graft. My supplemental “B” Aetna paid most of the few hundred balance however leaving me with $58 dollars to pay out of my pocket. Of course when I broke my arm in London, all medical care and painkiller drugs were picked up by the British taxpayers to whom I am grateful.