Here’s an artical on the Blue Cross Blue Shieldof NC website about why Moses Cone cancelled their contracts with this major NC health insurance provider.\u00a0<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.bcbsnc.com\/notices\/073107-mosescone.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n This statement from BCBS underscores my fight to prove that it is NOT the health insurance companies who are responsible for outrageous medical costs, it is the hospital corporations.\u00a0 I will pose the simple question once again, which no one has ever satisfactorily answered: How can hospital corporations, with a vested interest in shareholder profits,\u00a0put their patients\u00a0care above targeted revenues and profitability.\u00a0\u00a0The simple answer no one wants to admit\u00a0is: They\u00a0can’t.<\/p>\n An annual double digit increase for inpatient fees based on identical procedures is an outrage.\u00a0 This markup (ripoff) would not be tolerated in any other consumer industry.\u00a0 Yet society at large is silent towards hospitals and blames health insurance companies.\u00a0 If anything the insurance companies are working to control costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s an artical on the Blue Cross Blue Shieldof NC website about why Moses Cone cancelled their contracts with this major NC health insurance provider.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.bcbsnc.com\/notices\/073107-mosescone.cfm This statement from BCBS underscores my fight to prove that it is NOT the health insurance companies who are responsible for outrageous medical costs, it is the hospital corporations.\u00a0 … Continue reading Moses Cone Hospital and Extortion<\/span>