Healthnet you suck a big ass and should be put out of business!

[lonestarnot]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Bonuses_paid_for_dropping_sick_1109.html

A health insurance company serving customers in a half-dozen states set out to drop hundreds of customers and paid lucrative bonuses to an executive in charge of eliminating coverage.

One customer is suing the company, Health Net Inc., after a company salesman pressured her to switch to a Health Net plan only for the company to cut-off her coverage in the middle of costly cancer treatment.

California small-business owner Patsy Bates was one of more than 1,600 customers who had their Health Net policies rescinded between 2000 and 2006 saving the company $35.5 million, the Los Angeles Times reports. Over the same period the senior Health Net analyst in charge of canceling policies received more than $20,000 in bonuses based in part on her meeting annual targets for revoking the coverage.

[L0oniX]

1. Insurance is a scam

[lonestarnot]

2. No shit! They collaborate with billing clerks in drs' offices now

through "provider representatives."

[dorktv]

3. how does one save money by dropping customers?

[lonestarnot]

5. Get a fucking customer that only pays premiums and never claims a benefit for which the insurance

coverage is intended. Simple.

[lolly]

10. Dropping Customers who need expensive care

The scam is--accept money from everybody. Then, when somebody actually gets sick and needs expensive healthcare (exactly the situation that health insurance is supposed to be there for), comb through her policy and find a reason to cancel it (say, she had a hangnail removed in 1993 and forgot to mention it on her application). You keep all the money she and her company paid for for years, and get off scott-free.

[OzarkDem]

4. Yet most Dem candidates want them to run universal health care

Nearly every health care reform plan is relying on these same companies to use taxpayer funds to cover everyone.

Why would any sane Dem candidate trust these people? Cheating people is in their DNA.

[lonestarnot]

6. Who "them"?

[annabanana]

8. (the insurance industry). . . . . n/t

[lonestarnot]

9. Biggest bunch of lying bullshit dems ever told! Insurance scamming money grabbers need to run

biowarfare too I suppose. It needs to be fixed from the bottom up, not the top down. Dismantle the whole fucking industry and throw every one of their lobbyists under the nearest fucking bus.

[OzarkDem]

13. Private insurance companies

IMHO it will be a huge, expensive, catastrophic mistake to trust them to manage a system for universal health care in the US.

[Rosemary2205]

7. Jail is too good for them.

Oh, and fuck you Ronnie Raygun.

[lonestarnot]

11. Wonder if he's still having fun with easter eggs?

[Rosemary2205]

12. May I just say

that if I said what I hope is being done to Reagan with those easter eggs for all of eternity - well, it would probably get deleted..........

[Puglover]

14. I just watched "Sicko" again today.

Please if you haven't seen it, do.