I heart socialized medicine.

From John Aravosis, via my ever-lovely google reader:

What I got was a company [Blue Cross] whose left hand doesn't even know what its right hand is doing. A company that can't even tell me if I am or am not covered when I'm in a situation where I have to go to a doctor.

We're to believe that this isn't the equivalent of "socialism," where some faceless bureaucrat rations out care, telling you what you can and can't get treatment for, to hell with what you really need, to hell with any chance of appeal? How could a government plan be any worse? At least with a government plan I can appeal to my member of Congress when the insurance provider starts playing games like this.

For all intents and purposes I have no insurance. I have a crap shoot. Not only are the details of my plan unknowable, but they appear to change with the luck of the draw, depending who answers the phone that day at Blue Cross' 800 number, spin the lucky wheel, headquarters in hell.


Its from a much longer post (http://www.americablog.com/2009/07/blue-cross-tells-me-they-will-then-wont.html) but that part pretty much sums up my own feelings about private insurance...and why we desperately need a public option.