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)
