Public Integrity has the article Court case shows how health insurers rip off you and your employer.
The fees came to light when Hi-Lex Controls, an automotive technology company, took Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) to court in 2013 after becoming suspicious that the company had been systematically cheating it over 19 years. After reviewing evidence in the case, a judge ordered that BCBSM stop charging the hidden fees and pay Hi-Lex $6.1 million.
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The Court of Appeals affirmed the $6.1 million fraud judgment, agreeing with the lower court that “BCBSM committed fraud by knowingly misrepresenting and omitting information about the disputed fees in contract documents.” This misrepresentation, the court said, “helped sustain the illusion that BCBSM was more cost-competitive” than its competitors.
It seems obvious to me that employers (except for health insurance companies) should be thrilled at the idea of Medicare-for-all. It would relieve them of the burden of having to pay for employee’s health insurance to the tune that they already do. They wouldn’t have to do their own investigations and wage their own lawsuits to get back what they are losing to fraud by the insurance companies. Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse – many private companies seem to be masters at it.
You don’t suppose that Hillary Clinton understands this, do you? Neither answer you can give reflects well on Hillary Clinton. If the answer to the question is “No”, then what has she learned from her years of trying to “fix” the health care system? Why would we want a person who has learned nothing after years of deep involvement with the issue?
If the answer is “Yes”, she knows about this, but refuses to allow us to try to fix the problem, then why are we even thinking about electing her as President? Do you suppose Hillary gets some of her funding from the health insurance companies? Do you suppose bears do it in the woods?