Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Sauce for the Gander

It occurs to me that insurance companies (in general, but especially health insurance) have gotten into a habit of promising things they never deliver. "Bait and switch" is generally illegal, and grounds for lawsuit or complaint to chamber of commerce, Better Business Bureau, etc. And insurance companies often wind up owing people huge amounts of money that they refuse to pay. That's grounds for setting a collection agency on them.

I don't expect this sort of tactic would work very often; the companies are too rich and powerful. But if a LOT of people started suing the insurance companies and turning collectors onto them, it would drive them nuts, maybe even make them stop being so horrid. And halting that kind of attack would be a giant game of whack-a-mole, because there are millions of dissatisfied customers out there.
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cissa

cissa

September 14 2009, 01:20:36 UTC 11 years ago

Um, well, yeah.

My husband gets insurance through work, so we're basically OK our own selves. I mean, we'd probably buy that anyway, IF we could afford it. We have in the past successfully fought the denial-of-care approach and won.

However, this does not mean that I am unsympathetic to people not as privileged as we are; rather the reverse.

Refusing to pay has a lot of downside, and I'm not going to criticize anyone for not doing that. This does not make the requirement any less outrageous.