Health Care

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lab work is my worst nightmare when dealing with the insurance company .. befor i pick a dr i have to ask them if they do their own lab work or if they send it out ... we have one drs office here in town where the lab is at the other end of the waiting room from the drs office but its a separate company that runs the lab so we have to pay for the labs done there... its stupid because another drs office is in the same building with a lab but we dont get charged for that because of the deal the dr has with the lab ... figure that one out without getting a headache ... ohh by the way its the same lab company in both places

We need to get the insurance company's out of the health care business. We could fund it our selves and have much better coverage and not be denied, because the middle man is gone. The way it is now, profit is the mitigating factor in the coverage we have. CEO's of the Health maintenance organization are greedy and they don't care if we get coverage or not. The CEO of Kaiser Permanente made $1.3 billion last year, the CEO of United Health Care made, $1.7 billion last year, the CEO of Etna made $800 million last year. Kaiser hospitals in S California are dumping patients on the streets of skid row in LA., because they can pay the bill...With what these three CEO's made in one year, we as Americans could have had the best health care money can buy plus, we could have funded Medicaid and Medicare. People, we are already paying through the nose for Medical care and getting almost nothing for it...We need to kick the middle man out.  I took a 100 mile ride in a ambulance and the bill was $ 5,000 dollars and my insurance company only paid $800...I had to pay $5200 out of my Pickett...Why have insurance? They're bending us over and giving it to use dry. Wake up America. I could have rented a Lear jet and strippers to take me 100 mile to the hospital and paid less.

I changed health plans Dec 31st. New plan started Jan 1 st. But the old plan still took out $407 premium Jan 5th. I'm having trouble getting a refund. They say my change has not been approved. But I did receive an OK and new ID card. I tell them by law I can't have 2 health plans. I have letter saying my change has been approved by Medicare. One of them has to give up. And that's the one one that owes me money. So my advise is, don't sign up for an electronic payment of pemiums. Don D.

I changed health plans Dec 31st. New plan started Jan 1 st. But the old plan still took out $407 premium Jan 5th. I'm having trouble getting a refund. They say my change has not been approved. But I did receive an OK and new ID card. I tell them by law I can't have 2 health plans. I have letter saying my change has been approved by Medicare. One of them has to give up. And that's the one one that owes me money. So my advise is, don't sign up for an electronic payment of pemiums. Don D.

I understand that some people always want to see a specialist thus over burdening the specialist. I'll be more specific. I went to the emergency room for a possible stroke. Later found out it was a TIA. I was told by the emergency room doctor to see a specialist. I HAD to go to my doctor before I was sent to a specialist.

I changed health plans Dec 31st. New plan started Jan 1 st. But the old plan still took out $407 premium Jan 5th. I'm having trouble getting a refund. They say my change has not been approved. But I did receive an OK and new ID card. I tell them by law I can't have 2 health plans. I have letter saying my change has been approved by Medicare. One of them has to give up. And that's the one one that owes me money. So my advise is, don't sign up for an electronic payment of pemiums. Don D.

I changed health plans Dec 31st. New plan started Jan 1 st. But the old plan still took out $407 premium Jan 5th. I'm having trouble getting a refund. They say my change has not been approved. But I did receive an OK and new ID card. I tell them by law I can't have 2 health plans. I have letter saying my change has been approved by Medicare. One of them has to give up. And that's the one one that owes me money. So my advise is, don't sign up for an electronic payment of pemiums. Don D.