if you have ever had health insurance

[kaigou]

or filed a claim, or seen a doctor, or wanted insurance and not had it, here's a real eye-opener.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html

It's an interview with Wendell Potter, a former VP for Cigna (medical health insurance company), talking frankly about how the health insurance industry works. Some of it is pretty chilling, and some of it's crazy-making, and you may end up angry and frustrated at the end, but it's information we really need to disperse as much as possible. People need to know this stuff, and not let the big corporations -- who stand to gain profit on the backs of ill folks -- run us over any longer.

NOTE: the one-hour interview is apolitical. Just FYI.

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[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I knew a little of it, from a bit of time working in HMOs -- but I had no idea just how far down the rabbit hole goes.