A year ago this week, Kaiser Permanente was called to task for its practice of rescission, the retroactive termination of health insurance coverage. In many cases, coincidentally, Kaiser Permanente and other insurers will initiate a rescission investigation when someone has just been diagnosed with a serious illness, perhaps a serious and expensive illness.
Now that [...]
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Rescission: the antithesis of “right.”
Override his veto.
Update: MoveOn.org is helping organize events across the country to urge Congress to override President Bush’s “reckless veto.”
The gist: President Bush has vetoed an important bill that would have helped expand insurance coverage for uninsured children. The only hope now is for fifteen additional Republicans to vote to support the bill in the House, [...]
I’m not sad for you.
Michael Moore is ruffling more than a few feathers with SiCKO, his new movie which shines a (camera) spotlight on what’s wrong with healthcare in America. The movie doesn’t even open until Friday, but guess which healthcare organization already has its press release ready to go, saying its “portrayal” in SiCKO “must be addressed.” [...]
We see everything is going wrong.
Marie-Anne Hogarth, with the East Bay Business Times, has what I believe is the first interview with Phil Fasano since he joined Kaiser Permanente back in February. In the first dose of honesty in a while, Fasano admits KP is falling far short on reliability when it comes to HealthConnect:
The first goal, Fasano says, [...]