What the Left conveniently leaves out
Monday, Mar 8, 2010
We all know the health care debate is chock full of distortions, lies and the omission of important facts. It is one of those conveniently omitted facts that we on the Right should have addressed from the very beginning in the argument against the nationalization of 1/6th of our nation’s economy. And, it directly counters one of the biggest lies the left has been trumpeting on a daily basis about our current health care system. That lie being: “Health care insurers regularly refuse to approve medical procedures or drop the insured, when they need the insurance the most.”
Where are all the law suits? Why aren’t we seeing the Federal government taking these insurance companies to task over breaking legal and binding contracts with the public? And since the States have independent insurance regulatory commissions, why aren’t we hearing about all this fraud on a local level?
You know damned good and well, if there actually were cases of a sick people being denied their rightful benefits by insurance companies, the liberal media would be screaming to the top of their collective lungs about it. It would be the lead story in the MSM for weeks and there would be demands for heads to roll, not to mention the demand for government run health care (without even bothering to go through the legislative process).
How do the Liberals come up with their inflammatory numbers? Mary Theroux has this to say, in an article she wrote in a Blog called the the Beacon back in Dec of 2009:
In his speech to Congress on the need to overhaul health care, President Obama asserted:
‘More and more Americans pay their premiums, only to discover that their insurance company has dropped their coverage when they get sick, or won’t pay the full cost of care. It happens every day.’
The following week, Health Care for America Now, a group supporting the Democrats’ health care reform bill, ran a television ad claiming that private health insurance companies: “Deny 1 out of 5 treatments prescribed by doctors.”
When fact-checked by PolitiFact.com, it turned out the statistic had been derived by the California Nurses Association, which broadened its definition of “denial” to include such administrative non-events as a claim having been sent to the wrong insurer. Such snafus occur behind the scenes, and the patient never knows about them because his/her claim is, in fact, subsequently paid by the correct insurer.
Again, the truth is left out and we end up getting facts that have been twisted to fit the Liberal Socialist’s template.
Something else that has been left out is the safeguards put in place for purchasers of health insurance policies. Since health insurance companies cannot sell their products across state lines (or are limited to very few states), individual states regulate the industry. And, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have created a web site with information specifically designed to protect the public from any wrong doing by insurance companies. This web site, along with many, many more can be found at, none other than The Dept. of Labor web site for employee benefits.
You sure don’t see PSAs on where to go if you have problems with your insurance policy, now do you?
Another fact that is being left out of the argument is: The biggest insurer of all, Medicare, denies claims at a rate of almost 2 to1 over any other.
Again. Where are all the law suits against health insurance companies? Why aren’t we hearing about any government action taken against these unscrupulous insurance companies? The answer is, there isn’t any. And we should be beating the Democrats bloody with this and all the other facts they are leaving out.
We need to demand that the left answer these questions. Naturally, they won’t. But we need to keep demanding and doing so in as loud a voice as we can.
by: Backwards boB
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