Those Dastardly Health Insurance Companies? Not!
The health insurance industry has been at the eye of the liberal storm for quite a while now, as evidenced by the headline of a post today at Huffington Post. It read, “Insurance Companies Remind Public Why We Hate Them.”But is that hate really warranted?
John Goodman’s Health Policy Blog is the source for the table below. It comes “from the 16-page 2008 Health Insurance Report Care released by the American Medical Association.” Of the eight health care provides, the highest percentage of denials were made by Medicare (6.85%) and only one private insurer even comes close, i.e., Aetna.(6.80%). The private insurers have significantly lower rates of denial.
Guess only liberals and their progressive brethren would see these statistics and continue to think that government is compassionate.