Humana Pays CEO Broussard $10.5 million by cheating post-op patients out of their precriptions:

[Faryn Balyncd]

Stopping at the pharmacy on the way home from the hospital with my post-op wife, we dropped off her prescription at the pharmacy. When we called to see if it was ready, we were told that the Humana Prescription Drug Plan had refused coverage because the licensed physician who signed the prescription was employed as a resident physician.

When I called Humana, the very nice person person who Humana had hired to field such calls relayed to me the message Humana has trained her to tell such policy purchasers: that "THE GOVERNMENT MADE US DO IT. Medicare won't allow insurance companies to pay" for prescriptions written by fully licensed physicians who happen to be employed as a resident physician at the time.

How much Humana paid the person who dreamed up that blatant lie is unclear.

But what is clear is the type of business practices that have become "business as usual" in our current corporate culture.

These everyday nickle and dime denials make sense from one and only one perspective: These are the foundations which allow Humana's current CEO Bruce Broussard to be paid $10.5 million per year, (not counting $323,000 in "commuting" expenses), even as they pay peanuts to the nice people they hire to man the complaint lines.



PGA TOUR golfer Scott McCarron cracks a joke as (from left) Humana Challenge CEO Bob Marra, Humana President and CEO Bruce Broussard, and Desert Classic Charities President John Foster share a laugh at the Humana Challenge Mayor's Breakfast




What passes for "capitalism" in today's culture would make Adam Smith VOMIT.

[Liberal_in_LA]

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