Comments for Corporate Research Group's Weblog http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com Inside view on the business of healthcare Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on ‘We Have a Humongous Health-Care Problem’ by Chuck http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2012/01/19/we-have-a-humongous-health-care-problem/#comment-5241 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:28:45 +0000 http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/?p=5679#comment-5241 Yes! Most people don’t need a lot of health care, what they need is the incentive and discipline to live a healthy lifestyle. Why do I have to always be financially punished for doing the right things, while the people doing the wrong things are rewarded? I’m more than willing to help those that need it temporarily, but I don’t want to keep blindly throwing money at people that will never change because being a parasite is an easy life.

]]> Comment on WellPoint Fires Sassi. Is Another Shoe About to Drop? by sunforester http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2012/02/13/wellpoint-fires-sassi-is-another-shoe-about-to-drop/#comment-5214 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:30:57 +0000 http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/?p=5805#comment-5214 Adverse selection is exactly what Obamacare wants for our health insurers, even though they say the opposite to calm our much assaulted sensitivities about the socialist takeover of our private industry. The ideology of free health care for privileged people is to pay for as many of them as possible without being busted in public for it.

Of course Medicare Advantage is going to experience anti-selection while Obamacare is paving the highway toward providing guaranteed issue for all. Firing an executive for not preventing the obvious is silly, and shows just how whipsawed our private industry is from the anti-American power grabs by our government.

Get our government OUT of the healthcare business, and our insurers will breathe a heavy sigh of relief from the burden of handing out patronage so that our political elite can stay in office. Old folks need to pay their way as much as the rest of us, and being promised a free ride is no excuse for shaking the rest of down and killing our private industry for it.

]]> Comment on Coventry Turns the Page, Backward by Slicing into an employment agreement from Coventry… | FavStocks http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2009/01/30/coventry-turns-the-page-backward/#comment-5189 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:21:43 +0000 http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/?p=570#comment-5189 [...] move, he was named Chairman of the Board in January, 2005. But within a few years, Coventry’s stock price fell by 75%, prompting the man who succeeded Wise as chief executive, Dale Wolf, to resign [...]

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]]> Comment on BCBS-NC Agrees to Refunds, Gets 5.4% Rate Increase by Mary A Whitley http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2010/09/21/bcbs-nc-agrees-to-refunds-gets-5-4-rate-increase/#comment-5143 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:55:35 +0000 http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/?p=4353#comment-5143 Will postal workers recieve this refund also?

]]> Comment on Trouble for Managed Care in 2012? by sunforester http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2012/02/01/trouble-for-managed-care-in-2012/#comment-5134 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:29:02 +0000 http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/?p=5791#comment-5134 The MLR is yet another devastating interference by our political elite in how our private industry is run. Our government cares nothing about how our insurers maintain their own health, because our political elite is dead set on extracting as much free health care from our insurers as possible for the benefit of their greedy voters.

I don’t care how much profit my insurer makes, as long as I get a fair price for my health insurance premiums and good service as agreed in my contract. I don’t want my premiums to be jacked up (as they are now) to cover all the uncompensated care that our health care providers are forced to give to those who refuse to pay for their own health care.

If our political elite wants effective, efficient health care, then they must stop forcing our health care providers to donate their goods and services to privileged groups and individuals. Our beseiged providers must then scam and defraud me and my insurer with overtreatment and inflated claims to make themselves whole.

It is disgusting that our political elite forces me and my insurer to hand out their freebies for them, while making my insurer pare its overhead to the bone to allow more ready cash to be available for our government’s legalized theft and handout of patronage.

]]> Comment on ‘We Have a Humongous Health-Care Problem’ by george trudeau http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2012/01/19/we-have-a-humongous-health-care-problem/#comment-5079 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:42:42 +0000 http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/?p=5679#comment-5079 Do poor people buy a tiny amount of care, and try to make do?

]]> Comment on ‘We Have a Humongous Health-Care Problem’ by sunforester http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2012/01/19/we-have-a-humongous-health-care-problem/#comment-5073 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:52:28 +0000 http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/?p=5679#comment-5073 Yes, we definitely have exploding health care costs, and it is strictly due to the cost of uncompensated care desperately trying to be compensated by fewer and fewer payers. When our government finally gets OUT of the health care business, and each of us starts paying for our own health care needs, watch our health care costs dramatically drop.

The more free health care that is handed out by unfunded government mandates, the more freeloaders will gobble it up and stick the rest of us with the bill. Stop handing out free health care, and suddenly health care will be affordable for everyone. Access to health care will never be a problem – all you have to do is pay for it.

]]> Comment on Not-for-Profit Blues Take 3Q11 Profit Hit by sunforester http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2012/01/04/not-for-profit-blues-take-3q11-profit-hit/#comment-5009 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:30:16 +0000 http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/?p=5667#comment-5009 You don’t specify what is in those administrative costs, so you are in absolutely no position to pontificate how a health insurer should be run. Go run your own health insurer and then see what kind of costs you need to deal with before you glibly blow off their administrative cost burden.

For this industry to survive, our government must get OUT of it and let it and all private businesses do what they do best. Government has no expertise whatsoever in competently directing how a business should be run. Government forces itself on businesses only when our political elite wants those businesses to do its bidding to promote their own power.

The free market is the right arbiter to determine if a business will do well, although our political elite has seen to it that there is no longer a free market for health insurance with its corrupt intrusion and interference.

]]> Comment on Survey of the Day: ’1 in 5 Think the Health Law Has Been Repealed’ by P. Scully http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/2011/02/25/survey-of-the-day-1-in-5-think-the-health-law-has-been-repealed/#comment-5008 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:46:34 +0000 http://blog.corporateresearchgroup.com/?p=5050#comment-5008 One in five think the health law has been repealed. What is surprising is that this number is not higher. It seems that there hasn’t been great communication on this issue.

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