Posted on 04/03/2009 4:59:41 PM PDT by Lorianne
Maryland ping!
Why not just call it “Ration-care” and be done with it.
Treasonous socialist/fascists.
Exactly, and the very thought of using Blue Cross-Blue Shield is sickening.
I really need to get out of this state.
Thank you Mitt Romney, you socialist bastard!!
Great. My firm contracts with Carefirst, and just got a notice that our rates are going up over 20% for this year. This is the reason why.
Get in line.
I was always taught that there is no free lunch. But I guess there is in Maryland.
Well, no... everyone is looking for FREE universal health care. When you tell those surveyed that they'll have to pay for it, the interest level drops rapidly.
Here we have another proposal with a "mandate" that really isn't a mandate. The only way you can actually enforce mandatory coverage is through a draconian and highly expensive invasion of privacy, or through leaving uninsured patients at the curbside outside the ER. If there's no consequence, there's no mandate.
“Exactly, and the very thought of using Blue Cross-Blue Shield is sickening.”
In Maryland, CareFirst (Blue Cross/Blue Shield) is pretty much the best health insurer that is not for rich folks.
As a small business owner, I've tried most of the others, and the fact is that my CareFirst PPO, although fairly expensive, pays, without complaint, and in full. When my son had a brain tumor a year and a half ago, not once did anyone ever say, “We have to check with the health insurer to see if we can do this.” Rather, they saw that we had CareFirst, and it was never a question.
We had over $80,000 in bills 2007, and after the deductible and the co-pay, they paid everything. A couple of times, on a couple of items, they screwed up the reimbursement to the health care provider, requiring dealing with their bureaucracy, but during 2007, my wife had surgery, my younger son had two surgeries and countless doctors appointments, hospital visits, CT scans and MRIs, visits to specialists, and my older son also had to see several specialists.
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We used it in my Dad’s business and we had to fight them to pay anything. One of our guys had a heart attack and they wanted to pay $7.95 We finally got it straightened out; but it took a while. You had to fight them on every claim.
Last year they rolled that out in my county Howard MD one of the highest taxed in the county. My rich liberal neighbors all worship federal government because Howard County is recession proof thanks to fed gov. Taxes to the great provider are like the pagans giving tribute to the gods.
Inronically I benefit yet I see it as evil, unlike my neighbors.
Was this business in Maryland? When was this?
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As an individual subscriber, though, my rates have been going up twice a year for the past 5 years or so. My coverage has remained the same but my premium is now about 250% more than it was in 2003. I keep them as "insurance" as in catastrophic occurrence insurance and have had no claims since 2004, so it is not based on "insurability".
Texas
Dude, it’s Maryland, a state that you Californians can actually laugh about.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
They sent a letter this week to subscribers announcing that they would cover "Domestic Partners." Wow, all the married people must be so happy to be paying for the shack-ups.
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