By Mike Killalea, NSD president
Evidence is pointing to customer frustration for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. And – coincidentally or just in case? – Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield rolled back a new policy that limited coverage for anesthesia during surgeries.
Three words — "deny," "defend" and "depose" — were written on the shell casings of the bullets that killed Thompson.
The message seems to mock "delay, deny, defend," a reference to the ways insurance companies avoid paying for care.
Big Insurance running scared?
A separate insurance company, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, today rolled back a new policy that limited coverage for anesthesia during surgeries, Axios' Nathan Bomey reports.
Anthem had set a time limit for anesthesia coverage — if a procedure took longer than Anthem thought it should, the insurer wouldn't cover the additional minutes of anesthesia.
And the right wingers fear the government getting involved in their health care. That’s a laugh.
Anthem’s policy was controversial when it was first announced, but has drawn fresh outrage in the wake of Thompson's murder.
Ya think?
America’s health care is out of whack
America's healthcare system is out of whack. No health-care system should produce more than 17% of a nation’s GDP.
Denmark has a slightly higher GDP per capital as the US, but health care costs per capital are about half. See the chart.
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