Health insurance coverage only for the healthy
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
If 47 million uninsured Americans is not high enough a number of vulnerable people who often do not visit the doctor soon enough to receive an early cancer diagnosis leading to a higher cancer survival rate, Blue Cross of California is looking to increase the number of uninsured — with the help of doctors.
Blue Cross of California sent out a letter to doctors, along with a patient’s application for health insurance, asking doctors to report any preexisting medical conditions the patient may have left off the health insurance application. That’s right — the health insurance company is asking doctors to rat out patients in an effort to save money.
According to the California Medical Association president Richard Frankenstein, “We’re outraged that they are asking doctors to violate the sacred trust of patients to rat them out for medical information that patients would expect their doctors to handle with the utmost secrecy and confidentiality.”
The Wall Street Journal has linked to an actual copy of the letter sent out by Blue Cross of California to doctors in Blue Cross Asks Docs to Report Patients’ Omissions.
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