UnitedHealth financial troubles mount

United healthcare owns the GOLDEN RULE company which is used to pre-screen people applying for insurance. For example if you are an above average size woman , aged 35 ( let us say 5 feet 2 inches and 210 pounds with absolutely NO MEDICAL PROBLEMS),UHC will deny insurance through GoldenRule.(other insurance companies will quote a ridiculously high premium and kill the applicant with a severe vasovagal attack! In my office I would be taken to court if I told one of my employees that she is too obese to be employed! The federal law shields insurance companies from the iron hand of regulators. The federal governemnt is infiltrated by the lobbyists of the big Pharma and big insurance companies. I do not blame McGuirre for using the lenient government regulations to become fabulously rich. He did what was good for him and his company. However, he has no business to talk like a patient advocate. What we need is severe regulation of the spawning health insurance sector with large punitive damages and mandatory 20-year jail terms with hard labor for offending officers of healthcare industry. These punishments should also extend to the mid-level managers to improve governance. This industry should be watched closely as their actions have consistently put them in the same category as snake oil salesmen, Mafiosi and the ruthless drug dealers and the 9-11 highjackers. A lot of house and Senate members have been elected chanting the mantra of affordable healthcare. I even saw a tear in Sen. Schumer's eyes when he addressed this issue in his victory speech today! Let us see what these chaps will do in the coming years!

If you have a large claim against UnitedHealth Care they will not just kill your policy, That would not be legal. What they do is stop offering that policy in the county in which you live. It may be offered on the county next tyo yours but this gets rid of you. A ggodly number of doctors in central Kansas will longer accept or bill (out of network) any insurance that is connected UnitedHealth Care.