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dorie that is most maddening
that this is story that should in rage you and
have you understand
why we should of have a public option why the health care reform bill
that we passed was not
good enough
as it left the private insurance system exactly as it is
you'll also see
this summer the reforms that were done were absolutely necessary
well that's the worst a different question
so what's the story
looks like %uh federal regulators by and investigators
are looking into what wellpoint is doing
when women get breast cancer
wellpoint is the largest
the insurance company in the country
they be sure about almost one out of every nine Americans
they have subsidiaries all over the country
and that's apparently they haven't Al Gore at them
if you get
breast cancer
automatically
those
to try to cancel your policy
so the computer will say all right
start looking at the policy
to see if there's anything wrong at all
the he filled out a form wrong
or he didn't
mention a pre-existing condition
well what they claim is a pre-existing condition et cetera et cetera
it automatically does
so many people have been gone from their policies
because of this system
why
because treating cancer closely
and what point is in the business
I'm making
profits
they're not in the business of
helping you and the business treating sick people
then the business of making money
so
now this is not idle speculation as I said federal investigators looking into this
now let's look at the facts a little bit
you might say oh well look you know what
the and wellpoint's this
no we're just looking for fraud because we don't
you know why because we want to protect the rest of the or
customers
because otherwise their bills will be higher
you have their bills will be higher we have to pay
four of the that
actual insurance
the worth about but they out
while still making your broadcast profits right
so for example they looked at
ninety cases
where wellpoint's that okay
the know where it's in your contract
anne richards for canceling it
good luck to you in your practice down
in not
one of the cases
was it a legitimate court
every single one had been denied on nonsense
things like
all you can claim to have acne so that they were not treated for breast cancer
you just tell us that you have problems with your bone density partly because that particular
didn't even know
so you know it's that we're not really here for of breast cancer
in that once in a while that it states has invested of those ninety
the all should temperatures can understand it's okay
for all those
conservatives
who argue how well you know what that deadbeats is that it
we want these women
had paid
all of their premiums
every single year
it did the wellpoint Inc into wellpoint needed to walk
and at the end when they needed them
they got the rug pulled out from underneath
why did they do it automatically they don't even consider a lot of points about understand
all breast cancer we care a lot about it
what we give to charity we talk about studies where
African-American women are getting
%uh not getting treated as much for breast cancer it's either a are feel was a woman
angela braley is cares deeply about this issue
so why do you think what look
the evil exist in the world
and as a slip really have no idea what's happening in our company not because I they make money
you know how much money they say from recision
all the top a insurance companies in the country
because that house a committee looked into this
three hundred
million dollars a year
I you of course they said that money
if you get down here
you know premiums every single month
for a whole lifetime and they don't pay you when you get sick what they save money of
course they will
wellpoint alone at some up numbers say that
%uh it it gets over a hundred billion dollars a year
by kicking people out when they get sick
you can't trust the private companies
think he can do that's not their job
and that look to maximize their profits that's why we feel about this health care thing
we should never just let that is the only option
it's one thing to hey you know what i'd like to buy pepsi or coke what difference does
it make
i'd like to buy and I think the jury box
his remark still in business
but that it
what difference does it make
that's where the free market make that close sense
what is your life on the line
and then made money
for making sure you don't get treatment it doesn't make sense
another woman
that she ministers will have much effect at risk for breast cancer
and then
a she had complications yes that infection
at issue a staph infection well then that was really costly
they decide it now at this point
I would look back at your old forms nope
that what the forbes
that was that woman with a and the breast cancer was in the waters article voters broke
this story
this particular woman
well that they said we sent you a some forms to fill out
they didn't build up so that's it were cancel your policy
we shall I address
in fact my old address that and and the sad day for you know up
they don't pay for surgery
so now for the last eighteen months he can't
barely survive
and went broke
work is that up
when art dealer it's all right you want to do and other cities even articles that
and then she's on both states
and he says I had no idea how hard it was
when you of a lot of choices
and you're poor
through no fault of your own
these are the people that rush limbaugh would call upon
but I can't get back to work
she literally stand twenty or thirty minutes a day
as the thirty devastated are
the public isn't paying for the service you name it
the woman that began that was specifically mention article that be canceled or
policy because the acne
if she had acted earlier
he want to testify in front of congress
you know what they did to her
they say okay we're pulling your that
although Monday she was going to get that surgery
that he was in both for President was really severe
on Friday they say were canceling your that insurance you can get the surgery
and it's very
by the time she got it
we instituted and ironically with the help of Joe barton was a republican from Texas
but is she
her tumor growth from
that to send these
the seven seven
and it was
much worse shape
they almost killed or and that's just one person
it's their stories like this
thousands of stories
let me give you more facts on how many cases of this affects there was a as that
settlements in
cases where they were denied
a coverage for eleven hundred policyholders
if the blue cross which is owned by wellpoint
sell that with a fine of ten million dollars
in February there was a one million dollar fine and forty million dollars in restitution
for twenty three hundred people
I do not
but you say all right let their pain these flies in one case as fifty million dollars
ten million right
but remember they're making so much more per ticket all those people out
when and some of them died that's how they save money
if they got a lot of idle eight five months
somebody's tumor growth from two centimeters he said as senators
they got lucky did manage to survive
well others they'll get like the big guy
and when they died
it's a ballpoint on a month
it is
overwhelming
how many that people to this effect
and that is why they're looking in into a right now
and those ninety cases that I mentioned
%uh it was %uh two thousand seven investigation mattel toy department managed health care
%uh that %uh revealed that none of them got treated
here's how we have spurred
these people make a living
by denying your coverage after taking your hard-earned money all those years
and the guys who support them
for the people inside congress
you know who wrote the senate version of the health care bill
the muslims dollar
you know to use the word for
before short ago will
work for max baucus
and write the bill
he worked for
well point
the max baucus says a likable with the bill without a she wrote it
I know she did
now how does that make a difference
the house version of health care reform
said that
you're a tourist season on you
the you would get to do and independent external third party
the review
and it until that review happened you would sure
and if they would have to show
clear and convincing evidence of fraud to keep them out
because either case of issue as part of course they're right
so if have their pictures come he says look a I had a case of fraud
all right well I don't trust the jurors come into it they have a financial seventy two
dr you go to a third party
that third party will decide and that system
generally speaking works
so that was that makes sense that you know what you don't deny the coverage in the short
term
because they could die if you did
now that was the house first
that got remote
will remove it
lives
fowler
who used to work at while point
who wrote the senate version
now there is not a third party
check it in the bill
and people are concerned
oh you know what the health care bill
this was to get rid of recession
you want to know what the problem is
there's no enforcement
right now they have no idea how to enforce it
because they didn't write it into the bill
they say well later
health and human services
could come up with with a way of enforcing and a good and I hope they do
and I hope they go to a third party
enforcement
and I hope that they're smart about it
but why don't we put in the bill it wasn't all that they get out
by the same people who make any
enormous amount of money
to make sure the you don't get treatment
relying on the system of insurance
is literally deadly
oh I think about that
in flint really is in the list dollars
who claim to care so much about women's health
for well knowing there on your program inside their own company
lewis fellow was which is a
wellpoint an issue winds up
hoping that system by writing that
bill weaker
and angela braley does today as CEO
I wonder how the live with themselves
he can I'm not sure that there's such a thing as evil but if there is
this is the quiet evil of our time
and he said hey you know what
I get paid a lot of money
and when
some guy comes in here and tells his gun on tourism
but denies woman who get breast cancer treatment
now look the other way
now continue to make a lot of money and they're not going to charity events that pertain I
care a lot about that
it's repulsive
look our lives are on the line
we have to change the system
if you think your insurance is going to cover here
when you get sick
the wrong
sometimes they do sometimes you
they don't
and if you're a woman
they're even less chance of getting covered
category that base is a red flag with insurance companies
and that triggers
possible removal of your insurance
he's if you dare to get pregnant
if you're a woman these insurance companies are not your friend
I don't know how many women run them
that's the cover
okay
and deny any of our friends
and they don't give a damn about our well-being
they care about making money
we gotta change the system
we can't rely on these people what our lives are on the line