Do you know who I am?
In Sicko, Michael Moore relates the story of a man who wrote to his insurance company after being denied to inform them that Michael Moore’s next movie was going to be making a new movie about health care.
I wonder from time to time if the more popular bloggers get the desire to pull that card every now and then. For instance – when Blue Shield decided to deny his claim, re-evaluate it, pay only a portion of what they promised, then lie to him about having paid it and lied to the anesthesiologist about where to go for payment, do you think that maybe, just maybe, Kos had the desire to call them up and say, “Do you know who I am? Do you who I am? I’m the Daily Effing Kos!”
Their out is the line “preferred rate”. And the preferred rate for that procedure was apparently around $400.Of course, we never asked them to process this at the “preferred rate”. We ask them to pay for the service. That’s why we’re paying over $800/month in insurance premiums. To be insured.
It gets worse, the office of the anesthesiologist has letters from Blue Shield claiming that the insurance company had sent us the money directly, so to bill us for the services. Of course, we never received such money. No such checks were ever cashed (which would be easy enough to verify if they were really interested in the truth, and not shirking their duties).
So they lie to us, claiming for seven months that they’ll cover the procedure. They lie to the anesthesiologist’s office, claiming they’ve already paid us the amount owed, and to bill us directly.
And now, finally, they truth comes out—they have a problem paying what’s owed and will refuse to do so, even though they sent us a letter saying they would.
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