The best insurance may come as a surprise
The best insurance may come as a surprise
Date published: 10/18/2009
The best insurance may come as a surprise
I am sure my wife and I have the best health insurance in the U.S. We can choose our doctors and see them any time we feel it necessary. The decision is ours, no approval required.
We are not required to fill out any forms or file any paperwork. The doctor submits his claim to our primary insurance carrier, which pays 80 percent of the bill and forwards the claim for the remaining 20 percent to our secondary insurer.
In a few weeks, we get the paperwork from both carriers showing that all charges have been paid and we owe nothing. I do not know how the process could be made better. It's perfect!
Do you want the names of these insurance carriers? The primary insurer is Medicare, and the secondary is Tricare. Medicare is managed by the Social Security Administration, and Tricare by the Department of Defense. Both programs are extremely well-managed.
This is the kind of insurance we all can have with a public option. It's a right all Americans deserve.
Robert Cooke
Orange
Date published: 10/18/2009
Most recent reader comments:
A good letter Mr. Cooke
(posted by
sacha
, Oct. 18, 2009 1:29 pm)  
Medicare and Tricare are both publicly-funded programs. You, like so many folks I know who have this coverage, are incredibly pleased with how Medicare and Tricare are managed, delivered, and billed. We need this for all Americans. We need to remember -- health insurance companies work for the investor not for the insured. I'm not against profits but this is an industry that doesn't add anything to the value of health care. They are no longer useful and add cost that could be applied to health CARE.
Prepare for a broadside
(posted by
True_Bob
, Oct. 18, 2009 11:17 am)  
of accusations that you are a filthy socialist trying to destroy the Merkin Way of Life. There's an army of sheeple who've been convinced that helping others is downright unAmerican, unless it's helping pig business or the wealthy. They're very confused, so pay them no mind.
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