Woodland Hills-based Health Net Inc. avoided paying $35.5 million in medical expenses by rescinding about 1,600 policies between 2000 and 2006. During that period, it paid its senior analyst in charge of cancellations more than $20,000 in bonuses based in part on her meeting or exceeding annual targets for revoking policies, documents disclosed Thursday showed.
How Sicko: HeathNet Awards Bonuses For Dropping Ill Patients
11/9/07, 4:46 pm EST
Comments
Delta Wild Man | 11/9/2007, 7:29 pm EST
Well TIM,,
What about that post of mine your not posting for me??
Will you at least look at it as a humor post and not a infomative post??
Delta Wild Man | 11/10/2007, 12:52 am EST
TIM
Come on,, I might have pissed off a few people with my post.
But there damn sure would have been some comments on it..
IF your not paid on a post,, then you should be..
Delta Wild Man | 11/10/2007, 1:30 am EST
There were things said, and some of you will never know..
I posted something that made a difference,, and guess who didn’t show it??
Folks,,i said the same thing during vietnam,, but they didn’t let it be known..
TIM,, i was pissed when i said what i said about fat people..
I ment every god damn word i said!!!
now are we going to post it in here,, or are we going to do the same god dam thing that nixon did to me??
DirtyDennis | 11/10/2007, 8:11 am EST
DWM
Don’t be lazy. MCP filters words, not intent. You’re using a word he doesn’t like. It makes no sense, but if you REALLY want to be heard, parse out your post and sent sentence by sentence until you find the culprit. I know from my own experience that the word b-u-y won’t f-l-y.
Delta Wild Man | 11/10/2007, 12:17 pm EST
Health Care Has decided that they will cover only who they want to cover,, i.e. Notice that some smokers can not find health insurance..
What About Obese People??
The Smoking Nazi’s have been out for years, getting laws passed that tell us we can’t smoke in BARS..
(Everyone knows folks go to the bar for their health).
Now Witness the creation of the,,, FAT NAZI’S..
These folks are the one’s who are going to start passing laws telling people what they can,,,, and can’t eat..
NOTICE IN NEW YORK YOU CAN”T EAT DUCK LIVER..
Sorry Mam,, Can’t supersize your double quarter pounder with cheese..
Delta Wild Man | 11/10/2007, 12:21 pm EST
SO FAR SO GOOD..
continued
No mam,, you can’t super size your double quarter pounder with cheese because you have more than 2 chins.
And a city ordanence just passed also says you can’t have the cheese.
Remember,, these are the people who are just “LOOKING OUT FOR ALL OF US”..
News Flash,, I don’t need to phuking looking out after,, I’m a grown man and I’ll eat what I damn well want to eat.. (now that I’ve quit smoking)..
Delta Wild Man | 11/10/2007, 12:37 pm EST
There is no diff between these folks who are ” WORRIED ABOUT OUR HEALTH ” and the MORAL MAJORITY..
At the very least,, Pat Robertson is not telling me what I can eat, or what I can’t eat..
And the last time I checked,, Jerry Farwell never prevented anyone from firing up a smoke as they left the church!!
POTs DO ENJOY CALLING KETTLEs BLACK
Garvin13 | 11/10/2007, 12:53 pm EST
Wow. Not only are they rescinding policies of the sick, but they’re also conducting questionable business internally. I mean, the analyst should be pissed that she only got $20k for saving the company $35.5 million! A bonus expressed as a percentage of value to the company that’s four digits to the right of the decimal point would never fly most industries. How many kinds of dirty are these people? At least compensate your grim reaper.
Delta Wild Man | 11/10/2007, 1:26 pm EST
If I were to introduce a National Health Care plan,, like a former first lady from arkansas..
NOTICE,,, I didn’t say Hillary or Hirrary..
I’d go to a collage, and plant a few questions with a few students,, like a former first lady from arkansas..
NOTICE,,, I didn’t say Hillary or Hirrary..
NO NO NO “COMRADE Clinton”, If FEMA can’t get away with holding fake news confrences,
Your not going to get away with ASKING YOURSELF them tuff questions you like to HEAR YOURSELF ANSWER, through a student..
Folks,, I’m not picking on Hillary, BUT if your a DEMOCRAT, let me remind you, SHE AIN’T WINNING NOTHING on the track she’s on..
Coach | 11/10/2007, 1:36 pm EST
Delta: As always, you’re being ‘flubber’ again. Bouncing all over the place…….
Let me just sum up the America’s health industry for you: A big revenue stream for many of the top 1% in the world, be it through insurance, or cosmetic surgery, or actual health problems.
Funny how America spends more money on health than France or Germany, but we don’t live as long. Seems to me, if we’re going to be spending more GOVERNMENT money on health than those two countries, we might as well reform our health system to mirror what they’re doing since they both live longer than us.
One more thing: The republicans are already starting to try and even the playing field on climate change and the environment by getting the religious industry to start to push it. In other words, rather than come out and admit they were wrong, they’re trying to steal some of the thunder away from the liberals who have been pushing the environment for the last 50 years. And, when they try to even the playing field on health, will it still be one of those ‘liberal’ pipe dreams of socialized medicine?
Certain things shouldn’t be profited off of. Life and death isn’t one of them. Furniture, food, and entertainment are forms of profit industry, but letting industry decide who lives and who dies? That’s just morally bankrupt.
Also, isn’t medicaid government medicine? Funny how the republicans tout medicaid without even realizinig it’s socialized medicine for the elderly……
blood for oil of olay | 11/10/2007, 2:28 pm EST
$20,000 is that it?
Delta Wild Man | 11/10/2007, 2:39 pm EST
Coach
So can I have a beach house in Malibu??
I figure now that we are giving people stuff they don’t pay for,, I might as well get something I want in the bargin..
Tell you what,,
Why don’t we do this..
People who pay for their health insurance,, you know,, ( INVEST PART OF THEIR INCOME IN HEALTH INSURANCE ),
Why not let them go to “THESE HOSPITALS” and deal with “THESE DOCTORS”..
And for them folks who DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE,
we can let them go to “THOSE HOSPITALS” and deal with “THOSE DOCTORS”..
BUT IN THE END,, who’s going to end up with the good doctors..
Let me give you an example of something that is “PUBLIC” and something that is “PRIVATE”..
SCHOOL!!!
not always,, but in MOST cases,,
What are the BEST SCHOOLS??
( ) PUBLIC
( ) PRIVATE
The way I look at it..
Private Schools are so good,, you pay for them TWICE..
Coach | 11/10/2007, 4:06 pm EST
Delta: “So can I have a beach house in Malibu??
I figure now that we are giving people stuff they don’t pay for,, I might as well get something I want in the bargin..”
If socialized health care comes out of your tax dollars, then what is it they’re GIVING you??? Something you already paid for by being a legal tax-obiding citizen?
And: “What are the BEST SCHOOLS??
( ) PUBLIC
( ) PRIVATE
The way I look at it..
Private Schools are so good,, you pay for them TWICE.. ”
I think everybody’s under the impression private schooling is better. But, what is the reference? Jobs post-graduation? Well, here’s the deal: There’s a lot of money being exchanged in the private school system. I’d bet that transfers over into the post-school job market for graduates………Again, money/industy making the decisions.
Bottom line is this Delta: I know for a fact that government health care, even though allegedly worse than private, would still be better than doing it myself.
But, I guess it’s easier to blame everything on the Big Mac……
Delta Wild Man | 11/10/2007, 10:46 pm EST
Coach
Loved to discuss this with ya,, but for some reason,, I’m being refused the post again..
But two questions before we end the debate..
How much more of my income are you going to want??
And at what tax % does it become too damn high to try anymore??
vince vega | 11/11/2007, 1:46 am EST
Hitmen get paid far more than 20 grande per hit. The analyst should have just taken some sharpshooter lessons and cashed in. Working for an HMO obviously ain’t the most profitable way to get paid for killing people.
Jed Clampett | 11/12/2007, 5:32 pm EST
I don’t really have much of a choice at my company, you choose package A or package B or package C packages A and B are normally geared to the executives that can afford to pay a healthy premium for decent coverage for themselves and their family. The rest of us have to pay a premium for a half assed plan that we have to pay a sh*tload before it kicks in and actually pays for some coverage. The bad part is that you don’t know what isn’t covered until you go in for care and you actually need it. Would be nice if market forces could be used to find decent health care, but they have set it up to where they are shielded by market forces, oversight or even fair business practices by a complicit government that relishes on the contributions made by their protege the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industries.
Travis | 11/24/2007, 10:55 pm EST
I’m not sure what you Americans are so afraid of? I’d much rather pay some taxes and live with the peace of mind knowing that I will recieve the best medical care for myself and my loved ones, not if but WHEN the time comes. It’s nice to live in a country where nobody needlessly dies, where money does not determine who lives or dies or what quality of care you recieve. I have nothing but great things to say about the health care in Canada and I cannot imagine living in any other system.

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