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We found out we were still on cobra during but it was its final month. Same #bluecross #healthinsurance different plan. We paid nearly $2k a month for that good plan which now doesn’t exist. So now I’m sure it’s a matter of paperwork from that plan to the exchange plan they are pretending to not know about. These companies will kill you with paperwork and the government and #ai making it worse not better!

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To be clear: lack of clarity about whom is responsible for what when a health insurance company outsources functions is not an accident or a side-effect or an unwanted by-product. It's 100% on purpose.
Any time you see health insurance companies doing things that make it harder for people to get care paid for, you should absolutely assume they're doing it on purpose.
By definition, insurance companies' performance is primarily measured by how little money they pay out.
#healthInsurance

I made a new blog post!

In this update, I write about bereavement and dealing with insurance companies, my ongoing auto-immune flare (Lupus), moving, my new phone and switching to GrapheneOS, returning to Debian, setting up a homelab server, and things that I found interesting over the past couple of weeks.

Two-Week Update

resplendent.neocities.org/blog

resplendent.neocities.orgHi, I'm Bryan!
More from Bryan (he/him/his) 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈

Remember how my health insurance company bogusly refused to pay part of one of my claims and then made it intentionally difficult for me to appeal their decision?
Well, guess what, they're still at it!
They intentionally delayed their most recent response to my appeal by three weeks, and when they responded they told me to call the people who already told me they couldn't help me.
Read the details and my fiery response here:
blog.kamens.us/2025/06/11/toda
#healthInsurance #GEHA #UnitedHealthcare

Have you heard about #healthinsurance companies taking money back after they’ve paid out? We got a $900 bill from our sons preventative care from 2023 from #bluecross when we were on the exchange between cobra and job-same insurance company and now we have to jump through hoops to find our old paperwork and fight this. Ridiculous #scam

Our Malady: Lessons In Liberty From A Hospital Diary by Timothy Snyder — Review, #book published by Penguin Press

"Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for the sake of our bodies, and for the sake of our souls."

#BookReview by @GrrlScientist

#books #healthcare #HealthInsurance #HumanRights #freedom forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

Our Malady: Lessons In Liberty From A Hospital Diary by Timothy Snyder — Review, #book published by Penguin Press

"Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for the sake of our bodies, and for the sake of our souls."

#BookReview by @grrlscientist

#books #healthcare #HealthInsurance #HumanRights #freedom forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

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#MarcoRubio has also become increasingly involved in #Trump’s pressure campaign on #Harvard & with the admin’s campaign around #HigherEducation more broadly.

Rubio has privately pressed for his counterparts at the #Treasury Dept to open an investigation into whether Harvard violated federal sanctions by collaborating on a #HealthInsurance conference in China that may have included officials blacklisted by the US govt.

"withdrawal of governmental assistance to purchase insurance will most likely result in younger, healthier people’s dropping out of the #HealthInsurance market, leaving enrollees to be, on average, older and sicker — and therefore more expensive to insure. To offset these sicker individuals’ higher medical costs, for-profit health insurers’ main tool is to increase the premiums they charge for everyone."

MSNBC msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio
#USPolitics

MSNBC · Trump's 'big beautiful bill' will let Obamacare premiums get more expensiveBy Miranda Yaver

90 days:🚨~20M HHs get notices: their #HealthInsurance is going up by an aver of >75%.

Even those w/o #ACA subsidies will see the raw cost of insur up ~15%.

The comb of the #BBB cuts to MDCD & the failure to extend enhanced ACA tax credits for exch parts will cause ~15M to lose their #health insur. Those who hang on to pay the higher rates are disprop likely to really need insur due to med conds -tend to create sicker insur pools -more claims payouts by insurers.
#USPol prospect.org/health/2025-07-22

The American Prospect · Countdown Clock Begins for Giant Health Insurance Premium IncreasesIn around 90 days, millions of Americans will learn about out-of-pocket cost hikes of more than 75 percent on average.

oh fsck off

#GOP #ACA #Obamacare #HealthInsurance

tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld

"Health insurers “are doing everything in their power to shield consumers from the rising costs of care and the uncertainty in the market driven by recent policy changes,” wrote Chris Bond, a spokesperson for AHIP, the industry’s lobbying group."

TucsonSentinel.comInsurers & customers brace for double whammy to Obamacare premiumsBy Julie Appleby