Beverly Gossage, Research Fellow for Show-Me Institute and founder of HSA Benefits Consulting wondered which insurance companies rejected the most claims. She found her answer in the AMA’s own 2008 National Health Insurer Report Card. The chart below appears on page 5 of the 16-page report.
Here’s the chart…
How about that… Interestingly, Stop the ACLU’s headline on this report really does drive home the point: “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Demonizing Private Insurance Companies”
Funny, indeed… Big Government closes with the following prescient thought.
Of the eight insurers listed, Medicare is most likely to reject a claim, sending away 6.85% of requests. This is more than any private insurer and double that of the private insurers’ average!
In short, the AMA is endorsing a plan whose closest existing example is the most frequent denier of claims. How the public option exemplifies “delivering care to patients” is unclear.
Hard to argue, particularly when the numbers tell the story.
