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Consumer 1 – BCBS (MD) – 0

June 18th, 2009 by COD

My adventures with Blue Cross have been documented here in great detail.

Blue Cross is trying to kill my wife
BCBS is trying to kill my wife – II
More shady operations from BCBS
Still no cure for diabetes
The problem with healthcare in a nutshell

So I’m only more than happy to point you to somebody who took on BCBS, and won!

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6 Responses to “Consumer 1 – BCBS (MD) – 0”

  1. on 19 Jun 2009 at 8:21 am   Paul Baxter

    Just to be fair, for all practical purposes there is no such thing as Blue Cross. The national association is a very tiny entity which has little to do with operations of the various insurers using the name in the different states.

  2. on 19 Jun 2009 at 9:11 am   Nance Confer

    Oh, yes, that’s my first impulse. To worry about the health insurance company’s feelings. :)

    Some day we will live in a country with a public option and not have to spend $1000 a month to be bilked.

    Nance

  3. on 19 Jun 2009 at 9:30 am   COD

    Paul is right, but I’ve personally been insured by two different BCBS orgs and both were a PITA. Of course, the public option will probably cost us $1200 a month in taxes, and be even worse.

  4. on 19 Jun 2009 at 4:03 pm   Nance Confer

    How did you come up with the $1200 figure?

    One of the schemes coming out in the news is a tax on those employees with employers paying $1400 or more a month. What the hell are they getting for $1400 a month?

    Our slightly reduce income this year (DH is in construction) has led to the kids being switched from SCHIP to Medicaid. And the care seems to me to be better. More thorough at any rate.

    But I hope nobody is paying $1400 or $1000 a month for the insurance. But I don’t know what that cost is.

    And one fellow over at DailyKos is writing about dropping his health insurance — by choice, as a political statement. http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....nce-Policy I doubt BCBS will be shaking in their boots. :)

    Nance

  5. on 19 Jun 2009 at 4:15 pm   COD

    The $1200 is made up. But When you factor in the portion of my insurance that my employee pays (which they could theoretically be paying me in cash…) I am paying over $1000 a month for health insurance, before the out of pocket costs for copays, etc.

    And for that $1000 a month I have dental insurance that considers $110 fair payment to have 3 old filling replaced. My dentist charged about $400. Yes, I could have saved money by finding an in network dentist, but I really don’t want somebody that will work for that poking around my mouth with a fracking power drill. My dentist is not expensive – he is market average for around here.

  6. on 20 Jun 2009 at 9:49 am   Nance Confer

    So for $1000 a month, you don’t get the dentist you want. Sigh. . .

    There has to be a better way.

    Nance

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