Kos of the DailyKos blog lets fly at Blue Shield for the nightmarish, deceptive way that they've dealt with him. After lying for months on end to him and to the Anesthesiologist who helped his wife give birth about payment of a claim, they've invented a new lie and used it as the basis for not paying the claim, even though Kos pays $800 a month in premiums. When he asked the rep he was speaking to for her last name, she hung up on him.
It gets worse, the office of the anesthesiologist has letters from Blue Shield claiming that the insurance company had sent us the money directly, so to bill us for the services. Of course, we never received such money. No such checks were ever cashed (which would be easy enough to verify if they were really interested in the truth, and not shirking their duties).
So they lie to us, claiming for seven months that they'll cover the procedure. They lie to the anesthesiologist's office, claiming they've already paid us the amount owed, and to bill us directly.
And now, finally, they truth comes out — they have a problem paying what's owed and will refuse to do so, even though they sent us a letter saying they would.
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BlueCross's internal talking points memo for Sicko
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