You wanted to protect the insurance companies. You wanted to defend them as if you never had a pre-existing condition. We tried explaining this to you but you didn’t listen.
It’s all come down to greed and this is just the beginning. They will bleed us dry. Look what you’ve done by obstructing health care reform:
“UnitedHealthcare’s New York chief executive, William Golden, said in an interview that the tension had been fanned by a greedy and intransigent hospital system that had been seeking unseemly rate increases of more than 40 percent. Mr. Golden said it was the toughest negotiation he had seen in 13 years.
“A front in the national health care battle has opened in New York City, where a major hospital chain and one of the nation’s largest insurance companies are locked in a struggle over control of treatment and costs that could have broad ramifications for millions of people with private health insurance.
The fight is between Continuum Health Partners, a consortium of five New York hospitals, including Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, both major teaching hospitals, and UnitedHealthcare, which includes Oxford health plans and has 25 million members across the country, one million of them in New York.
While Congress has been haggling over covering as many as 15 million uninsured Americans, the prestigious hospitals and the major health insurer have been in bitter contract negotiations, not just over rates but also over UnitedHealthcare’s demand that the hospitals notify the insurance company within 24 hours after a patient’s admission. If a hospital failed to do so, UnitedHealthcare would cut its reimbursements for the patient by half.”
