Monday, November 23, 2009

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Health Insurance Plans That Hide Their Data

More than 100 health plans couldn't be ranked—they refused to release information

Posted November 7, 2008

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Socialized Medicine is Scary!

Just look at Medicare. Oh yeah...all of our elderly are staying away from that socialist plan...not.

The AMA even got Ronald Regan to do propaganda against it back in the day. Check it out -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqA4QhfXHA&feature=channel_page

The socialized medicine scare mongering is nothing new. Ask any senior now what they would do if medicare was destroyed. They would be rioting in the streets.

Socialized Medicine

If we think we are in trouble now, wait till the democrats pull the knife out of us. We need to get goofy and the rest of his cronies out, and get back to basics. Socialized medical care is on the horizon if our "WHAT'S HIS NAME PRESIDENT" gets his way. It's up to all that care to stop it. Watch Glenn Beck sometime. He puts it out there like it is.

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Medicaid MCO in Florida

Not so good. I happen to think WellCare, and that entire group could care less

AARP Is not a Health Insurance Company

RUTH

aarp

why is aarp not even mentioned?

Just wanted to let you know AARP is NOT a health insurance company. The get paid by health insurance companies to "endorse" their products and market them to members of AARP. Personally if you want to get a laugh check out the ICan Benefit from the great Billy Mays www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7d85T4OfqA .

Choosing Plans

My 81-year-old mother is collecting information in order to change her Medicare insurance plan. Her current one is twice as expensive as most and pays less. (How did that happen?) I can say with assurance that we are not stupid people, but pouring through pages and pages of information seems to yield little help.

After looking at plan after plan, we see that Geisinger in Pennsylvania where my mother lives came in third in this report. After months of research we never came upon Geisinger.

Then I note that the Medicare plans on the list are all HMOs. As someone who has always had a PPO, I'm scared to death even to think about being enrolled in an HMO. And yet here we are. I am close to thinking this all is hopeless, largely because insurance lobbyists have written not only their plans, but also every health care law in America. It's shameful.

Aetna

Aetna does not oursource customer service !

Aetna is the best insurance company I have ever had,

they have preventive benefits and incentives for

living a healthy lifestyle !

Rating medicare plans.

It would have been helpful if you compared data for traditional medicare with the Medicare HMO's to see how the origional and still largest compares.

Many of our patients get into managed care plans and then find their access to Physical and Occupational therapy severely limited.

Full disclosure, I am Physical Therapist in private practice in NY State.

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