Insurance Company Rules: A new blog about health Insurance
Our good friend, Monica Sanchez (who helped set up the Social Medicine Portal back in 2003) is now blogging for Insurance Company Rules. We wanted to share this new site, set up by Health Care for America Now, with readers of the Portal.
The home page opens with several delightfully wicked videos imagining how it would be to play sports with an opponent who makes up the rules as they go along. The page has four major subsections: Their Rules, Our Pain: Real Stories of People Trampled by the Insurance Companies, Foul Play: Insurance Company Mistreatment; Fixing the Game: Ideas from the Insurance Industry & its Supporters; and Insure-Rants: which invites submissions from patients, doctors and business owners. The home page also examines the seven major health insurers (AETNA, Cigna, Coventry, Health Net, Humana, UnitedHealth, and Wellpoint) and provides information about state regulation of the insurance companies.
The site’s blog has been in operation since September and several of its posts are related to the current financial crisis. A posting on 10/23/2008 highlights the role of medical debt in the consumer bankruptcies and the current financial crisis. A posting on 11/6/2008 argues that President-elect Obama should consider universal health care as part of his stimulus package, an argument extended in a second posting on 11/14/2008. Most recently, the blog has discussed the insurance industry’s offer to provide universal health care coverage “under the terms and at a price the insurers set.” This very existence of this offer is proof that the insurance industry itself recognizes that the winds of change are blowing in the US.
Insurance Company Rules is a relatively new site and we look forward to more critical, informed commentary on the health insurance industry. Could it be that this is one industry that has outlived its social purpose?
posted by Matt Anderson
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