NYT: I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.
Read my full op-ed in The New York Times.
The New York Times has published my opinion piece reflecting on my time as a health insurance executive and the heartbreaking situations that led me to become a whistleblower.
I also discuss how insurance companies prioritize Wall Street profits over patient care, shortening the lives of many and driving millions of Americans into medical debt. I hope you’ll take a moment to read the full piece.
I read the opinion piece and many other of your works about the health insurance companies, but you have been writing about their ripoffs for many years, yet these companies still find loopholes, workarounds, employ dirty tricks and game the healthcare system to increase their profits while doing little to enhance patient care. Legislation to address one set of bad practices leads to the healthcare companies finding different schemes to separate money from their customers bank accounts. It seems to be a futile game of whack a mole to end their bad practices. Perhaps that is their intention and have people throw their arms in the air to say nothing can be done.
I think politicians have been captured by the contributions of the healthcare industry and a political solution to change/stop the companies corrosive practices appears difficult to obtain.
Is there a market solution possible where a non-profit company can enter the marketplace and compete with these financial behemoths to end the ripoffs?
I appreciate the information you give of health insurance company ripoffs, but would like to start seeing some writing on solutions. Or some stories on where in the U.S. some entity has found a way to do right by their health care customers.
I was a doctor working for a health insurance company until I found out they were doing something illegal and they canned me. The lawsuit is ongoing