The Largest Denier of Health Care

Recently we've heard a lot about this preexisting conditions stuff. We here that the private sector is denying people all over the country, and that the government, is the answer.

Obama wants a public option to keep insurance companies honest and stop them from denying people coverage. Well what does it say though, when we find out that in the 2008 American Medical Association report shows that medicare denies twice as many patients as private insurers.

The report shows us that between march of 2007 and march of 2008 there were 10,000,000 insurance claims. And it also says that there were 574,591 denied claims.

And who top the charts with the most denied claims? Medicare. A government run health system. What a coincidence. And we're trying to stop insurance companies from denying patients, by getting the government involved?

Of those the AMA followed the results came as: medicare denied (6.85%), more than double the denial rate for private insurers like UHC (2.7%), Coventry (2.9%), Humana (2.9%) and CIGNA (3.4%).

So who exactly is the big bad claims denier? The government. The same government who has no constitutional authority to tell private companies how to operate their system.