I can say that my experience with HCHP was excellent when my son’s 46-year-old father was dying a long and protracted death from cancer last year. We never once had a bill come to the house, never once had anything erroneously rejected, and never once were delayed in necessary treatment or service. Everything his oncologist, medical subspecialists, and surgeons wanted for him was covered and paid for, no problem. Indeed, he was assigned an oncology advocate from HCHP who contacted him when his cancer recurred in 12/07. She arranged for social worker support for me and my son, who was 10, and she checked on him monthly to make sure he was getting what he needed. On one occasion he was scheduled for a liver MRI and the wait was a bit funky. She intervened and got the date moved up.
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p>Some of his monthly chemo bills were outrageously expensive, over $5,000 a month for one oral drug alone, and we never had a problem. He was endlessly in and out of the hospital and the ER. At the end, when we had hospice in the home, anything and everything the VNA ordered for him went through without a hitch.
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p>I am grateful that we had HCHP. Our experience could not have been better.
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This may explain why two subscribers have totally different experiences with the same company:
good for him. Make as much money as you can. My only issue is not specific to Charlie Baker but to the industry as a whole. We have all these HMO CEOs making millions, with a public insurance this money would instead go to patients. I kind of like that better.
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than the year before, as the company’s membership declined and income was down 49%.
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p>It’s not just about the insurance industry; it’s about rewarding CEO greed with no reference to performance. That should end. Since there’s no mechanism to end it globally, our health care should be removed from its pernicious influence.
I can say that my experience with HCHP was excellent when my son’s 46-year-old father was dying a long and protracted death from cancer last year. We never once had a bill come to the house, never once had anything erroneously rejected, and never once were delayed in necessary treatment or service. Everything his oncologist, medical subspecialists, and surgeons wanted for him was covered and paid for, no problem. Indeed, he was assigned an oncology advocate from HCHP who contacted him when his cancer recurred in 12/07. She arranged for social worker support for me and my son, who was 10, and she checked on him monthly to make sure he was getting what he needed. On one occasion he was scheduled for a liver MRI and the wait was a bit funky. She intervened and got the date moved up.
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p>Some of his monthly chemo bills were outrageously expensive, over $5,000 a month for one oral drug alone, and we never had a problem. He was endlessly in and out of the hospital and the ER. At the end, when we had hospice in the home, anything and everything the VNA ordered for him went through without a hitch.
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p>I am grateful that we had HCHP. Our experience could not have been better.
This may explain why two subscribers have totally different experiences with the same company:
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p>http://www.powerlineblog.com/a…
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p>While it would be nice to believe every employee is patient, has empathy, and always does their best – it is not so.
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p>A certain amount of time, in any organization, someone does exactly what they should not do – on purpose.
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p>Sometimes it is because a caller annoyed the faceless employee for some reason, perhaps a transferance.
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p>But precisely what triggers the “imp of the perverse” in corporate or government responses has never been discovered.
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p>That all being said, HCHP is a nonprofit, and a 24% raise is also…perverse.
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p>With the timing being THIS bad for such a raise, could it be that the HCHP Board, itself, was subject to the Imp of the Perverse?
Who else are we going to tax?
who else are we going to stop Bush’s 2001 handout?
a year? 5 years? 7 years?
good for him. Make as much money as you can. My only issue is not specific to Charlie Baker but to the industry as a whole. We have all these HMO CEOs making millions, with a public insurance this money would instead go to patients. I kind of like that better.
than the year before, as the company’s membership declined and income was down 49%.
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p>It’s not just about the insurance industry; it’s about rewarding CEO greed with no reference to performance. That should end. Since there’s no mechanism to end it globally, our health care should be removed from its pernicious influence.