Insurance thieves reap billions in profits denying lifesaving treatments
NOVANEWS
By Preston Wood, RN
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Preston Wood is an RN Case Manager at a large acute care hospital in Los Angeles.
The real truth about predatory practices in the billion dollar insurance business broke out this week when the former Medical Director of insurance giant AETNA admitted under oath that he “never looked at patients’ records when deciding whether to approve or deny care.”
This comes just when AETNA and Pharm giant CVS are looking to merge, creating one of the largest healthcare monopolies in capitalist history. When corporate giants such as these two entities are allowed to merge, it only increases the stranglehold of the billionaire class on the health and welfare of workers and their families.
These are not mom and pop operations. Aetna’s strong second-q...