Latest health care insurance outrage - my friend Jeanie's story.

[kstewart33]

My hair stylist and good friend Jeanie called me today. She financially supports her hearing-impaired daughter and two grandkids who were born prematurely (weighing about a pound each) but have grown to be wonderful and exceptionally bright twins.

Jeanie's health insurance is Kaiser HMO and has been for 10 years. She applied to have her insurance downgraded to a lower-priced policy (from $530 a month to about $350 a month) because financially things are really tight.

Today, Kaiser rejected her application for the downgraded and cheaper policy. The reason - she's too thin.

I've known Jeanie for over 10 years. She's always been a twig - and in excellent health.

But Kaiser - knowing she's healthy - wants her to stay just where she is and pay the higher premium, though she can really no longer afford it.

So she's too thin.

[AndyA]

1. And that's what happens when there's no competition. Companies do whatever they damn well want to.

Because of anti-trust, health insurance companies do whatever they damn well want.

Congress has really screwed this one up. Big time. And still they send out E-mails asking for money. Save your bandwidth, assholes...no money until you do the right thing for the people (for a change).

[MadMaddie]

2. This is the trigger and no one will label it as such

every time one of these instances happen the Insurance companies should lose standing but we are not seeing that. It's time to make them non-profit.