Reply #35: "at least $300 million over five years??" I'd add a zero!

[DFW]

Think about it. If they did that, it was most likely in the case of severe illness. Figure a conservative $100,000 per case (probably WAY low), and that means they turned down 3000 patients in need of comprehensive care. Over five years, that's less than two a day. If you figure a higher cost per patient, then even less. I'm sure the number of patients that were refused care they needed, and should have gotten, was far higher than two a day a,ong three major insurance companies. "Great Benefit" is alive and well.

"Does anyone actually believe that Insurance Companies will be there for the people when they get ill and need health coverage the most?"

Sure. They are called Republicans who haven't yet fallen ill.

Right wingers like to say that a convservative is a former liberal who has been mugged. I think there are a quite a few (number growing) former conservatives who used to be healthy, but got sentenced to death or permanent handicapped status by their (also former) insurance companies, whose motto I still say is "please stay healthy or die."