Patient Power

Stossel, Sick in America, Part 2

Continued from Part 1.

Topics:

• pre-existing conditions
• Michael Moore on why insurers deny care (Moore did not confront insurance executives about this.)
• Stossel’s interview with an executive (Karen Ignagni, America’s Health Insurance Plans)
• claims denial rate, consumer satisfaction with coverage (sites a NY Times/CBS Poll, 87%),
• prevalence of insurance fraud, bad incentives of insurance
• What if car insurance covered oil changes?
• Cato’s Michael Cannon on opacity of costs to doctors and patients
• politicians on the number of uninsured (Huckabee - 40 million, Romney - 45 million, Obama - 46 million, Clinton - 47 million)
• insulation vs. insurance
• Whole Foods employee insurance plans (HSAs)

• Stossel - Sick in America, Part 5
• Stossel, Sick in America, Part 4
• Stossel - Sick in America, Part 6
• Stossel, Sick in America, Part 3
• Is health care like the fire department?