Last year the company I work for dropped Blue Cross from the available health care “options” and replaced it with United Health Care. From the start it was crystal clear the difference would be like going from a BMW to a Yugo. The list of “in plan” doctors in United’s plan was meager at best. The second clue was the lack of printed materials distributed and the lack of the usual health care seminar which outlined the “benefits”. Everything is “online” which means nobody is really home and this gives them the added benefit of instant benefit “revisions”.
Anyway a ten minute search on United Health Care turns up a wealth of information about my future medical prospects.
The RICO suit started in 2000 and by my casual accounts is still in court.
Further Googling can be done on William McGuire the former CEO of United. He left essentially for wrecking the company yet his stock options are 1.7 billion and that is after his obscene compensation.
This week one employee posted an email about having problems with claims to United. Several others also answered with similar complaints. United denies a claim. You then have to complain, fight about it, call them again. This is the very same claim made in the RICO suit.
Perhaps like one’s credit report there is a secret equivalent in the medical industry. The Machiavellian Index. It could be statistically calculated. A sort of “how badly will this customer bitch” index, or will the “other” company just take it out of the “health “savings” account.
Note here I’m using my new prole-speak tradition of enclosing Satanic/Orwellian doublespeak terms in quotes. Just as any businesspeak these items truely are coming to have two meanings.
Now not only can the government not do anything about health care;here in Massachusetts one is now mandated to have it. Not only is industry the enemy, government is too!
