Thank you for your cutting edge reporting -- just one of many hats you wear.
Somewhat off-but-tangential-topic: We hear about all the deaths in the senior community because of (take your pick) deaths due to the virus, deaths due to the vaccines, deaths due to delayed medical procedures/tests because of lock-down policies, etc. My question…
Thank you for your cutting edge reporting -- just one of many hats you wear.
Somewhat off-but-tangential-topic: We hear about all the deaths in the senior community because of (take your pick) deaths due to the virus, deaths due to the vaccines, deaths due to delayed medical procedures/tests because of lock-down policies, etc. My question is this. If there were all these deaths (and continuing excess deaths), wouldn't that impact the amount of funds available to Social Security and Medicare, and potentially alleviate the coming insolvency of those programs? I have read NOTHING on this. Am I missing something?
Now an anecdote that may partially answer my Medicare-part question above. There have been a few articles in The Wall Street Journal about real trouble in the Medicare Advantage world because of steeply increasing claims experience. I am a health insurance broker in MN, and about a third of my business is Medicare, and most of that is Medicare Advantage. Yesterday I received an email from one of the four carriers that I write for, namely UCare. They informed us brokers that they will no longer pay commissions on any of their Medicare Advantage products that become effective July 1st or thereafter, because of "unprecedented financial pressures". Upon an inquiry from me, their Director refused to say what those unprecedented financial pressures were. After my follow-up inquiry, he told me that a nonresponse is a response. Very interesting.
In regard to all the deaths in the senior community, I watched a very interesting video interview today of Gardiner Harris by Sarah Westall. Gardiner Harris has just released a book titled, "No More Tears" - The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson. In the interview, he made an interesting comment about how so many of the patients in nursing homes are given a psychiatric diagnosis & many are medicated with anti-psychotic drugs such as Risperdal, which increases their susceptibility to respiratory infections. This trend may have indirectly led to the excessive deaths from covid. It is a very worthwhile interview titled, " Millions & Millions Have Died" - Hidden Crimes of Big Pharma. You should have no trouble finding it.
ddc, so one effect of omitting commissions would be to steer people away from Med Advantage, right? Also, that Director should not get away with refusing to explain. Maybe we could mount a widely publicized write-in question campaign to him.
Well, one effect will be less agents (such as myself) writing policies for UCare, and trust in that organization -- for brokers -- is going to take a real hit. I don't know about a write-in campaign, but I am going to contact the St. Paul Pioneer Press about the issue and see if they're willing to investigate and report on it.
Hmm. I certainly would NOT take "no response is a response". Not interesting, criminal. We here in CO have had numerous situations reported about insurance companies doing their paying customers dirty, plus then the terrible situation with the young man gunning down the head of UnitedHealth.
Thank you for your cutting edge reporting -- just one of many hats you wear.
Somewhat off-but-tangential-topic: We hear about all the deaths in the senior community because of (take your pick) deaths due to the virus, deaths due to the vaccines, deaths due to delayed medical procedures/tests because of lock-down policies, etc. My question is this. If there were all these deaths (and continuing excess deaths), wouldn't that impact the amount of funds available to Social Security and Medicare, and potentially alleviate the coming insolvency of those programs? I have read NOTHING on this. Am I missing something?
Now an anecdote that may partially answer my Medicare-part question above. There have been a few articles in The Wall Street Journal about real trouble in the Medicare Advantage world because of steeply increasing claims experience. I am a health insurance broker in MN, and about a third of my business is Medicare, and most of that is Medicare Advantage. Yesterday I received an email from one of the four carriers that I write for, namely UCare. They informed us brokers that they will no longer pay commissions on any of their Medicare Advantage products that become effective July 1st or thereafter, because of "unprecedented financial pressures". Upon an inquiry from me, their Director refused to say what those unprecedented financial pressures were. After my follow-up inquiry, he told me that a nonresponse is a response. Very interesting.
In regard to all the deaths in the senior community, I watched a very interesting video interview today of Gardiner Harris by Sarah Westall. Gardiner Harris has just released a book titled, "No More Tears" - The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson. In the interview, he made an interesting comment about how so many of the patients in nursing homes are given a psychiatric diagnosis & many are medicated with anti-psychotic drugs such as Risperdal, which increases their susceptibility to respiratory infections. This trend may have indirectly led to the excessive deaths from covid. It is a very worthwhile interview titled, " Millions & Millions Have Died" - Hidden Crimes of Big Pharma. You should have no trouble finding it.
I'm wondering if this may be a canary in the coal mine.
ddc, so one effect of omitting commissions would be to steer people away from Med Advantage, right? Also, that Director should not get away with refusing to explain. Maybe we could mount a widely publicized write-in question campaign to him.
Well, one effect will be less agents (such as myself) writing policies for UCare, and trust in that organization -- for brokers -- is going to take a real hit. I don't know about a write-in campaign, but I am going to contact the St. Paul Pioneer Press about the issue and see if they're willing to investigate and report on it.
Plz keep us posted.
Wow. So now what?
Hmm. I certainly would NOT take "no response is a response". Not interesting, criminal. We here in CO have had numerous situations reported about insurance companies doing their paying customers dirty, plus then the terrible situation with the young man gunning down the head of UnitedHealth.