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POPSUnicare canceling all health insurance policies in Texas The nation's largest health insurer is withdrawing its Unicare health plans business from the Texas market by the end of the year, leaving more than 260,000 customers an option for coverage though there is no guarantee the price will be the same. Blue Cross of Texas has agreed to take over all the plans at a higher rate than what the same would be if you were to re-apply. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas will not let you re-apply for a lower rate and are forcing you to take this deal. Many of my clients are getting a better deal with other Texas Company's.So if no one is shopping your options for you call Scott Thiltgen Health Insurance Broker to get your best options. 512-260-0856.
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POPSService Description | Building Trade Association Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Aetna U.S. HealthCare, United HealthCare, Assurant/Fortis and more… We offer many different types of coverage and options. We offer HMO's, Point of Service, PPO, or any-doctor hospital plans. Our health insurance department is comprised of experienced representatives who work with members on a daily basis to find the best rates available.
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POPSAn Interesting Take On Healthcare What do I have to fear from a public health plan? That they might charge me less or, heavens, that I might pay the same amount, and actually get coverage? Some might say the Corporate Government is more American, because I have the freedom to not buy it. Freedom to go bankrupt if my child gets sick in this bloated, parasitic health care system. Freedom, once I’m bankrupt, to go to the emergency room and foist the costs off on everyone else. Freedom, if I ever get out of bankruptcy again, to pay whatever skyrocketing price my insurance company might happen to be charging five years down the road. That’s the Corporate Government’s idea of freedom. In this modern age, where power abhors a vacuum, you’re always going to have one Government or the other. As your doctor might say, choose your poison.
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POPSInsurance Co. NEEDS rate Hike!!!LOL! The video, posted below, is a slick pitch for pitchfork-style outrage. It notes how much WellPoint pays its CEO ($9.8 million) and how much of its policyholders' premiums it spends on lobbying ($9,529,747). WellPoint's subsidiary in Maine says it needs the rate increase to guarantee a 3 percent profit margin.
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POPSWhen Your Insurer Says You're No Longer Covered
"We do not rescind a policyholder's coverage because someone on the policy gets sick," said a spokeswoman for Anthem Blue Cross, a subsidiary of WellPoint. "We have put in place a thorough process with multiple steps to ensure that we are as fair and as accurate as we can be in making these difficult decisions." In a pending case, Blue Shield searched in vain for an inconsistency in the health records of the wife of a dairy farmer after she filed a claim for emergency gallbladder surgery, according to attorneys for the family. Turning to her husband's questionnaire, the company discovered he had not mentioned his high cholesterol and dropped them both. Yvette Thomassian of Glendale, Calif., lost her Blue Cross policy because she did not declare a deviated septum. She questioned why a common misalignment of the nostrils would disqualify anyone. They cancelled her healthcare over a crooked nose bone! Shocking this is tolerated, in a supposedly civilized nation.
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POPSCalifornia’s Real Death Panels: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims “Every claim that is denied represents a real patient enduring pain and suffering. Every denial has real, sometimes fatal consequences”, says Deborah Burger, RN, CNA/NNOC co-president. PacifiCare denied 40% of all California claims in the first six months of 2009. Cigna, which gained notoriety two years ago for denying a liver transplant to 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan of Northridge, Calif. and then reversing itself, tragically too late to save her life, was still rejecting one-third of all claims for the first half of 2009. California Blues rejected 28% of claims in the first half of 2009. In 2008, six days before RN Kim Kutcher of Dana Point, Calif., was scheduled to have special back surgery, Blue Cross denied authorization for the procedure as “investigational” even though the lumbar artificial disc she was to receive had FDA approval.
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POPSCalifornia State HMOs deny 1 in 5 claims It's time to stop talking about make believe death panels, and talk about the real ones. I had been going on the assumption the health insurance industry made (kept) $13,000,000,000 last year in profits. I was off by a couple billion dollars...it is closer to $16,000,000,000...opps!
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POPSDems In Mourning that they took away from Republican Gov. Mitt Romney when it actually looked like there might be a vacancy in John Kerry’s seat. In his later years, specifically the last couple of months, Kennedy was to come to believe that democracy would be best served by ensuring a placeholder is in office to vote on the Kennedy Memorial health care monstrosity … tragically now on life support though possibly about to benefit from a new infusion of animation due to Kennedy’s demise. A lot out there today on Kennedy’s charm, collegiality. I’ve always been charmed by the knowledge that this paragon of American democracy/champion of the little guy tried to kill the scrappy conservative blue-collar tabloid I work for as part of his feud with Rupert Murdoch, with the 1988 FCC cross-ownership ban. The Boston Herald … still alive and kicking today, and having made considerable efforts at reconciliation … joins the world’s media in honoring the fallen Lion: Legend mourned.
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POPSStar Factory Shows Off Three Kinds of Nebulae The Trifid’s third kind of nebula can be seen in the dark stripes that criss-cross the rest of the image. Called dark nebulae because of their light-obscuring properties, these clouds of gas and dust contain the remnants of previous star births. As higher pressure and temperatures build up inside the streaks of gas, nuclear fusion will lead to the formation of yet more stars
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POPSwhy health care reform is a must "I repeated that I had not received the services and what if the hospital doesn't send a revised bill - will they still pay it. The reply was "yes, if it's a covered charge." "NO WONDER OUR PREMIUMS ARE SO HIGH!" ==== So instead of scrapping our current system in exchange for a nationalized one - let's just fix what we got - a whole lot cheaper and it wouldn't piss so many folks off.
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POPSThis is a Real Rabbit: Alba The Green Bunny This is a true story. Does anyone else remember this? It is only a vague memory in my mind. I think I had dismissed it as a hoax. Rumors were that when the artist took her home, that it had died, but Kac, vehemently denied it. I have raised many, many rabbits, and it never entered my mind to make one colored like this. Genetically speaking of course. Can you imagine the surprise the kids would get on Easter morning when the bunny was more brightly colored than the eggs?!
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POPSCan Manchester City Spend Their Way to the Top? Manchester City are now front runners to sign Carlos Tevez, Manchester United’s brilliant Argentinean striker. It is believed that the offer made by United to the striker is just not enough, and they are unwilling to go higher.
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POPSIf You Can Afford A Cell Phone, You Can Afford Health Insurance Related, from today's Investor's Business Daily: "Many Americans are uninsured by choice," wrote Dr. David Gratzer in his book "The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care." Gratzer cited a study of the "non-poor uninsured" from the California HealthCare Foundation. "Why the lack of insurance (among people who own homes and computers)?" Gratzer asks. "One clue is that 60% reported being in excellent health or very good health." The uninsured are not always the same people, and many are without coverage only for a relatively short time. Devon Herrick, senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, notes that "Being uninsured is a transitory state, since most uninsured Americans are only without coverage for a short time." http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=479724
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POPSBlue Cross California Affordable health insurance plans available from Blue Cross California, Blue Shield, and top health insurance carriers. Health insurance quotes are instantly available online for you to review.
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