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09.15.09 - 11:50 AM
And You Thought the Insurance Companies Couldn't Get Any Sleazier
Here's a new low in profit-happy insurance horror stories from the SEIU: It seems half of all big insurers in a number of states deny or limit benefits to domestic violence victims by claiming they suffer from a "pre-existing condition." Like a thuggish partner, you mean? Do we need further proof a public option is necessary? To urge Congress again to prevent profiteering from the pain of others, or learn more about the stunning rates of domestic violence, especially in rural areas, go here
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Show AllThey are SCUM. Anyone that works for one of these firms and denies such a claim should be ashamed.
This will be a good point to bring up in the healthcare town hall with Howard Dean in DC tonight.
In it's relentless quest for profit, the US "Health" Insurance industry hit a new low that even mafia protection racketeers would be gobsmacked at.
This is not health care. Health care reform is off the table in Congress. It is now health insurance redoing for greater profits and more campaign money. Having been a victim of domestic violence, I do not understand why they would not cover these victims, except it might cost them profits.
People's health and healing is not a profit center in my language. Insurance companies do not belong in this business. Single payer health care for all!
Insure the victim! Arrest the abuser!
If there is enough evidence to deny the insurance, then there must be enough evidence to arrest the abuser. You cannot have it both ways.
Joe
Physicians overwhelmingly support a "public option":
http://healthcarereform.nejm.org
I was thinking more about this today. I have been in many Insurance companies and the folk processing the claims are much like everyone else. I am sure many of them women and subject to domestic abuse.
One can not help but wonder "How can this person get on the phone and tell a woman who was beaten by her spouse that her claims denied..?"
It all comes down to something Gandhi said.
"Poverty is the worst form of Violence".
Its either do your job or find another if you dont like it in this dog eat dog world. The Social Conscience of the people is suppressed because you have to put food on the table and get a roof over your head. We are in many ways the prisoners of our bodies needs, that to eat and sleep and provide for our children.
The Earthly powers, those elites that claim OWNERSHIP of all that is required for life and dole it out in a master slave relationship will always find someone who will swallow their pride or suppress their conscience in order to live a lifestyle they are trained to believe MUST be lived.
It will be a hard system to break down but it must be broken down.