Our sources tell us that @UHC spent an hour this AM in their Legal Department scrambling to stop the needless pain and suffering of their member...P&S...that was caused by their neglect, gross negligence and utter disregard. cc: UHC General Counsel @ThadJohnson CMO @AnneDocimoMD 
Pain/Suffering is something that juries are tasked with putting a price on. Daily pain is hard to calculate but in reality they look at what the Defendant Insurance Co did to not just cause but prolong that pain/suffering. Folks like Mike Bidart, Esq. of @BadFaithLaw teach this.
Here's @BadFaithLaw talking about managed care mega-companies like @UHC and the problems with the HMO system...which is why delays/denial of care is such a bad thing. The only real check on this behavior is big lawsuits or the loss of profits...
The @UHC can't be proud of this record of penalties/jury verdicts of $280M since 2000 for: Consumer protection violation; Benefit plan administrator violations; price-fixing or anti-competitive practices; Medicare Parts C and D Enforcement Actions; et al. violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/unitedh…
So the legal question that @r2bnation and our counsel will be pursuing vis-a-vis @UHC is why they don't grant Medicare effective date 'overrides' to members. What is the cost to @UHC/investors that makes them not want to do this for their 4.8M+ #MedicareAdvantage customers??????
And with that...for now...@r2bnation is returning to regularly scheduled programming. Hopefully, tomorrow we will have the answer to that question in a whole new thread about @UHC greed, incompetence and willful disregard for it's @AARP #MedicareAdvantage customers. Stay tuned.
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