HMOs mmune from damage lawsuits ...except by apparatchiki

Margaret mairead at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 22 11:27:55 PST 1999



>From a news article about a US$120M award against an
HMO:

"Because of a federal law governing employee benefits, most Americans with employer-based insurance are precluded from recovering damages from HMOs beyond the costs of a treatment improperly denied. Government and church employees are the exceptions; Goodrich [who died of a rare form of stomach cancer that went untreated because of the HMO] was a former San Bernardino County deputy district attorney. "

It's just amazing how the elite can blatantly take care of themselves -- in this case, as in so many others, by exempting themselves from a law that burdens the rest of us -- and yet _nobody gets upset_.

Government is our only buffer against the excesses of Capitalism, but i quite often wonder whether the 'cure' isn't as bad as the disease. Especially when i read something like this, or have to go through a security check to make a mandatory visit to the apparatchiki.

Psia krew!



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