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Monday, January 25, 2010

If you don't believe Big Insurance controls health think again

1/31/10
Typical Issues in insurance control of health care, bloated inermediaries, Assurant is linked with Blue Shield
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Insurance/InsureYourHealth/battling-the-system-a-patients-tale.aspx

Insurer Steps Up Fight to Control Health Care Cost

UnitedHealthcare says the proposed rule is meant to improve the quality of care and cut costs by allowing insurance case managers to jump in right away. The hospitals say that having their reimbursement cut in half is too much to pay for a clerical error, and that the revenue drain would ultimately hurt their patients.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/health/policy/25insure.html

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