Comments on: Don’t Be So Quick To Blame The Insurance Company

By: The “Care” Has Deserted Managed Care — Medical Malprocess

The “Care” Has Deserted Managed Care — Medical Malprocess — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:15:34 +0000

[...] A short time horizon provides no financial incentive to pay for preventative care, such as for diabetes, asthma, or heart disease. These all take a long time before they put us in hospital (read expensive). Your current HMO is betting you will be gone – in some other HMO or dead – before they have to pay for illness care. Besides, they have all sorts of ways to deny or delay payment. [...]

By: Resist Blaming Or Nothing Will Improve — Medical Malprocess

Resist Blaming Or Nothing Will Improve — Medical Malprocess — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:07:08 +0000

[...] of our problems are NOT: the medical insurance industry; the candidate’s campaign speech; or the procurers of Humvees for Iraq. Our problems are, [...]

By: Doctor “Rats” Won’t Gnaw at Costs — Medical Malprocess

Doctor “Rats” Won’t Gnaw at Costs — Medical Malprocess — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:30:40 +0000

[...] suggested in another post, we cannot fault Blue Cross and Wellpoint. They are doing what we – the system – want them to [...]