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Ocasio-Cortez: People experience denied claims as 'act of violence'

The Hill

said denied claims from a health insurance company could be interpreted by people struggling to afford health-related costs as "an act of violence" against them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) All of that pain that people have experienced is being concentrated on this event.

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‘They won’t help me’: Sickest patients face insurance denials despite policy fixes

News Medical Health Sciences

Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the minutes tick by and her frustration mounts, Ekirch, 30, opens a meditation app on her phone. It was recommended by her psychologist to help with the depression associated with a stressful and painful medical disorder.

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Ed Marx, Cleveland Clinic CIO – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

One recent example is the Clinic’s collaboration with Oscar (the health insurance company). One recent example is the Clinic's collaboration with Oscar (the health insurance company).

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Workers' comp mega-claims.what's missing from the research

Managed Care Matters

Thirty years ago I worked for an HMO consulting company, traveling around the country talking to big health insurance companies about how HMOs were delivering lower medical costs, under-pricing traditional insurers and growing rapidly.

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Trapped in the medical billing maze

NC Health News

When Snow told the collectors her insurance should have covered the bill, they said to take that up with Atrium. When she called Atrium, they said she had to submit the bills herself to her health insurance company. But by then, her health insurer said it was too late — she had missed their deadline to submit charges. “It

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Start the Revolution without Us

The Health Care Blog

We hate pharma and health insurance companies, but only until we need them. We say we’re unhappy about costs but what we really mean is that we want someone else to pay the costs. We grumble about how expensive they are but don’t really want our doctors or local hospitals to take revenue hits.

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Be Careful What You Wish For

The Health Care Blog

Best of all for physicians and other critics of our current system, I’m not sure we’d need health insurance companies or programs, other than for the stop-loss protection I mentioned above. I would expect many other efforts at administrative simplification for that same reason.