Medicare's denial rate higher than top private carriers
Heartless Medicare Bureaucrats Deny More Claims than Top Providers
Now that it’s been discovered that Medicare’s denial rate is roughly 1.7 times that of the top private carriers combined, will the AMA and Brother O’s “cherry picked” medical practitioners continue to sacrifice what’s left of their professional integrity and creditability to promote a government-run health care system that is more likely to deny patient care than administer it? Supporters of ObamaCare’s public option parrot bromides damning private insurance companies for denying claims and canceling coverage.
“We are held hostage at any given moment by health insurance companies that deny coverage or drop coverage or charge fees that people can’t afford,” Brother O said in August.
Brother O neglected to mention that the worst offender is the oft touted government model, Medicare. The American Medical Association (AMA) and Brother O’s cherry-picked medical professionals endorse the public option because, like Medicare, it would be a better provider for patients when it comes to decision-making autonomy and the ability to get patients the care they need.
Beverly Gossage, Research Fellow for Show-Me Institute and founder of HSA Benefits Consulting, discovered in the AMA’s 2008 National Health Insurer Report Card that Medicare is most likely to reject a claim, denying 6.85 percent or 475,566 claims, which is more than the seven top commercial health insurers and is double their average.
Gossage’s findings mean the AMA, the cherry-picked medical professionals, and the ObamaCare supporters have endorsed a plan “whose closest existing example is the most frequent denier of claims.”
In television ads and news releases, supporters of ObamaCare have shamelessly portrayed insurance companies as insensitive greedy louts with itchy fingers on hair triggers willingly to deny claims for wealth.
Will the shameless supporters of ObamaCare now portray the government-run insurer Medicare as a cold-blooded, heartless bunch of bookkeepers and bureaucrats? The cows will be home long before such a portrayal happens.
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Jerry A. Kane has spent over five years as a technical writer, almost two decades as an adjunct English professor, and over a decade as journalist. His commentaries have appeared on WorldNetDaily, the American Thinker, Canada Free Press, American Daughter Media Center, MitchNews.com and in daily and weekly newspapers in western Pennsylvania. Visit his blog, The Millstone Diaries, for more commentaries and musings. Jerry can be reached at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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