Insurance denial conditions, acne, hemorrhoids and bunions

[Spytheweb]

Health insurers have issued guidelines saying they could deny coverage to people suffering from such conditions as acne, hemorrhoids and bunions.

Uninsurable conditions included pregnancy, and being an "expectant father" was grounds for "automatic rejection." So was having received "therapy/counseling" within six months of the application. There was also this more general disqualifier: "currently experiencing/experienced within the last 12 months symptoms for which a physician has not been consulted."

Health Net guidelines for 2006 say that people could be denied coverage or charged higher premiums if they were taking certain medications, including Zyrtec, an allergy remedy, and Lamisil, which is widely advertised as a treatment for toenail fungus.

Pregnant women could be rejected, as could expectant fathers, the document said.

Spytheweb:

So all of you who say you like your insurance is just sitting on a denial list waiting to have your name called when it looks like you're going to cost your insurance company too much money and you become a medical loss for them, then they drop/deny you.

So you better not get any of these conditions or many more not listed.

Support single payer HR 676, will save 400 billion dollars a year and cover every US citizen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...091803501.html

 

[Willie99]

you deal with triviality

80% of Americans are happy with their health care, and I'll suggest to you that it is impossible to satisfy 100%.

We have holes to fill, and we need to try to contain costs, but that doesn't mean we need to start from scratch from something Barry, Harry & Nancy concocted, just stop.

 

[punter]

I assume you are talking about the percentage that can get insurance? Then of that amount how many have government insurance? talking about all types. You see whereas figures dont lie, liars figure.

 

[Willie99]

you're such a dipshit. You assume wrong, and that makes me a liar.

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As the Obama administration pushes for a national health care plan, studies show that most Americans are overwhelmingly happy with their own health care -- but they are dissatisfied with the country's overall system, because most Americans who have insurance believe that those who don't have it are not receiving care.
Those same studies, however, show that a surprisingly large 70 percent of the estimated 46 million Americans who don't have insurance say they do, in fact, receive health care, and that a vast majority of them are satisfied with it.
A survey conducted jointly by the Kaiser Family Foundation, ABC News and USA Today, released in October 2006, found that 89 percent of Americans were satisfied with their own personal medical care, but only 44 percent were satisfied with the overall quality of the American medical system. The survey is the only recent poll for which data is publicly available that allows for a comparison of the satisfaction of insured and uninsured Americans. (The data from a just-completed New York Times/CBS poll won't be publicly available for several months; the results that have been reported so far don't make the comparisons discussed in this article.)


<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td class="vaTextBold" colspan="3">

Satisfied​

</td> <td class="vaTextBold" colspan="3">

Dissatisfied​

</td> <td class="vaTextBold"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="9">

</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="vaText"> </td> <td class="vaText"> </td> <td class="vaText">NET</td> <td class="vaText">Very</td> <td class="vaText">Somewhat</td> <td class="vaText">NET</td> <td class="vaText">Somewhat</td> <td class="vaText">Very</td> <td class="vaText">No opinion</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="9">

</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="vaText">The quality of health care you receive</td> <td class="vaText">All</td> <td class="vaText">89</td> <td class="vaText">52</td> <td class="vaText">37</td> <td class="vaText">10</td> <td class="vaText">5</td> <td class="vaText">5</td> <td class="vaText">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="9">

</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="vaText"> </td> <td class="vaText">All Covered</td> <td class="vaText">93</td> <td class="vaText">56</td> <td class="vaText">37</td> <td class="vaText">6</td> <td class="vaText">4</td> <td class="vaText">3</td> <td class="vaText">*</td></tr></tbody></table>
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two things are pretty consistent around here

1) I don't lie
2) you're wrong

BTW: by citing Barry's words as your primary source of data. that essentially makes you an accessory to lying

just the facts Jack

 

[D2bets]

you're such a dipshit. You assume wrong, and that makes me a liar.

------------------------------------------------------------
As the Obama administration pushes for a national health care plan, studies show that most Americans are overwhelmingly happy with their own health care -- but they are dissatisfied with the country's overall system, because most Americans who have insurance believe that those who don't have it are not receiving care.
Those same studies, however, show that a surprisingly large 70 percent of the estimated 46 million Americans who don't have insurance say they do, in fact, receive health care, and that a vast majority of them are satisfied with it.
A survey conducted jointly by the Kaiser Family Foundation, ABC News and USA Today, released in October 2006, found that 89 percent of Americans were satisfied with their own personal medical care, but only 44 percent were satisfied with the overall quality of the American medical system. The survey is the only recent poll for which data is publicly available that allows for a comparison of the satisfaction of insured and uninsured Americans. (The data from a just-completed New York Times/CBS poll won't be publicly available for several months; the results that have been reported so far don't make the comparisons discussed in this article.)


<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td class="vaTextBold" colspan="3">

Satisfied​

</td> <td class="vaTextBold" colspan="3">

Dissatisfied​

</td> <td class="vaTextBold">
</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="9">

</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="vaText">
</td> <td class="vaText">
</td> <td class="vaText">NET</td> <td class="vaText">Very</td> <td class="vaText">Somewhat</td> <td class="vaText">NET</td> <td class="vaText">Somewhat</td> <td class="vaText">Very</td> <td class="vaText">No opinion</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="9">

</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="vaText">The quality of health care you receive</td> <td class="vaText">All</td> <td class="vaText">89</td> <td class="vaText">52</td> <td class="vaText">37</td> <td class="vaText">10</td> <td class="vaText">5</td> <td class="vaText">5</td> <td class="vaText">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="9">

</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="vaText">
</td> <td class="vaText">All Covered</td> <td class="vaText">93</td> <td class="vaText">56</td> <td class="vaText">37</td> <td class="vaText">6</td> <td class="vaText">4</td> <td class="vaText">3</td> <td class="vaText">*</td></tr></tbody></table>
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two things are pretty consistent around here

1) I don't lie
2) you're wrong

BTW: by citing Barry's words as your primary source of data. that essentially makes you an accessory to lying

just the facts Jack

Look at the wording. It's "the quality of the health care you receive." In other words, rate your doctor's performance. Nothing about how much it costs, insurance costs, procedures rejected by insurance, uninsurability, how long it took to get an appointment, etc etc. In other words, this has nothing to do with medical insurance, which is what the debate is all about.

What are you trying to prove with this poll?

 

[festeringZit]

In 2004, 42.6 percent of all babies born at taxpayer expense in California were born to illegal aliens, according to a state report on Medi-Cal-funded deliveries. In hospitals close to the Mexican border, the figure is closer to 80 percent. Remember: This is before health care becomes "free" to every U.S. resident.

@)

 

[punter]

Poor people should perish from treatable diseases

The party of hate.

 

[TomGshotput]

In 2004, 42.6 percent of all babies born at taxpayer expense in California were born to illegal aliens, according to a state report on Medi-Cal-funded deliveries. In hospitals close to the Mexican border, the figure is closer to 80 percent. Remember: This is before health care becomes "free" to every U.S. resident

Did all of those people pay for their services?

 

[Willie99]

Poor people should perish from treatable diseases

The party of hate.

from a full fledged and founding father of the looney left

this is a great example of why the left can't be reasoned with

 

[Willie99]

Look at the wording. It's "the quality of the health care you receive." In other words, rate your doctor's performance. Nothing about how much it costs, insurance costs, procedures rejected by insurance, uninsurability, how long it took to get an appointment, etc etc. In other words, this has nothing to do with medical insurance, which is what the debate is all about.

What are you trying to prove with this poll?

exactly right, Americans are happy with their health care services, nothing more & nothing less

thus:
1) our health care system does not suck
2) reform should work around and tweak the existing system
3) government run programs are the only ones losing trillions of dollars
4) we don't need more of that shit

 

[mplastered]

from a full fledged and founding father of the looney left

this is a great example of why the left can't be reasoned with

Tell me you're kidding. You're trying to reason with punter?:>( Good luck with that.

 

[festeringZit]

Poor people should perish from treatable diseases

The party of hate.

You shouldn't be so hard on the hate-mongering party that
is the Democratic Party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BzuMJq9f1I

 

[Coldweather]

Our Health Care is the best in the wholewide world. If we change it the people will get sick and they will not feel happy when they do. So we need to keep the one we got cause it be the gooder one.

 

[D2bets]

exactly right, Americans are happy with their health care services, nothing more & nothing less

thus:
1) our health care system does not suck
2) reform should work around and tweak the existing system
3) government run programs are the only ones losing trillions of dollars
4) we don't need more of that shit

Keep spinning.

The current proposed reforms do work around and tweak the existing system, unfortunately.

 

[ScottL]

I'm surprised which side Festering Zit is aligning himself with on this issue, which leaves his very condition left uncovered.