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[oletrucks] Off Topic Health Insurance Discussion(Was: Dont do this!)

To: "'Lewis Osborn'" <losborn@teleport.com>, oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: [oletrucks] Off Topic Health Insurance Discussion(Was: Dont do this!)
From: "Nelson, Jeff - DTC" <jnelson@paducah.k12.ky.us>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 07:44:26 -0600
I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking this off topic discussion off
line. Hard to see any connection to my 1953 3600 Chevy.

Jeff Nelson
1953 3600
Paducah, KY

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lewis Osborn [SMTP:losborn@teleport.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 1:32 AM
> To:   oletrucks@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: [oletrucks] Dont do this!
> 
> Can  you  tell  me how an insurance company is _better_ than the HMO you
> speak
> of?   Sure,  you may choose your doctor, but the insurance company will
> decide
> what care you need, how many days you'll be able to stay in the hospital,
> etc.
> THEN,  they'll  inundate you with forms, paperwork, stalling, and
> double-talk,
> in  the hope that you'll just give up and pay the bill yourself.  I had
> Kaiser
> for  over  20  years  with  NO  complaints.  I'd still have them if my
> present
> employer offered them.  Instead, I fight the insurance company on every
> claim.
> 
> The  so-called  HMOs  that you're complaining about are NOT Health
> MAINTENANCE
> Organizations  in  ANY sense of the word - they're just insurance
> companies in
> HMOs clothing.
> --
> Lewis - K7LVO - Medford - Valley of the Rogue - OR
> The Forty - 1940 Chevy Pickup - One Owner
> http://www.teleport.com/~losborn/1940.html
> 
> Sunday, January 30, 2000, 8:35:02 PM, ADvent wrote:
> 
> > Those HMO's, I hate them. Profit before patients for sure. I am living
> on
> > disability and I can't work at all or loose my insurance. So much for
> work
> > incentive, huh? Try finding a dr that speaks good english or likes
> Napco's. Or
> > anything older than 2 years. Fat chance of that.
> 
> 
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