Thursday, February 19, 2009

Satan's handmaidens

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-liinsu196040953feb19,0,4638148.story

I know that Andrew Cuomo is a self aggrandizing, publicity seeking shark, but boy can he pick an issue. First predatory colleges when every parent of a college student feels nickle and dimed after paying huge tuition bills, and now his focus on health insurance companies, is something that many, many people have experienced. Unfortuneatly, my family has had way too much experience with the absurd reimbursement rates for out of network Doctors. The rates have never seemed based on any kind of financial reality, and now several insurance companies have admitted wrong doing. The health insurance industry is completely without scruples. As my husband, who could have devoted his entire life to dealing with getting fair treatment for our family's medical bills, has pointed out, any mistake made by our insurance company is always in their favor. The spectacle of these companies exploiting people at their most vulnerable, makes old Bernie Maddoff stealing from widows and orphans seem tame.

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