Like any wrongful death brought about by health insurer neglect, the Cancilla family’s tragedy, like many others, can be easily found in a Google search. This story, as we approach it’s ten year anniversary has a moral which is universal in it’s shocking revelation, and timeless in it’s affirmation that health care in America will never truly be reformed until the Health Care denial for-profit system of mega HMO’s is dismantled:

It is more profitable for HMOs to allow chronically ill patients to die rather than to care for them properly. Patients’ premiums are relatively low and taking care of the chronically ill costs thousands of dollars per month. HMOs stay profitable by treating illness on a short-term basis. Repeated hospitalizations of patients who are chronically ill become financially draining.

If this sounds ominously familiar, you are probably referring to the current Health Care “reform” measures being proposed that seek to minimize long term palliative care though the “Liverpool Pathway” (which has gotten amazing media attention just after the prior post to which it refers) as well as the Obama initiative (from quoted speeches) to reduce hospital readmissions.

These are cost-saving measures straight out of the Health Care Denial for Profit playbook of the Health Insurance Industry that failed the Cancilla’s daughter Jennifer in a most despicable and wrongful way — for which they awarded the family the paltry (and I’m sure begrudgingly at that) sum of $175,000.

We brought this up months ago before things got ugly, then we predicted things were going to get ugly, they got ugly, and now mainstream media is onboard.

But make no mistake – any shell game that ends up with a missing public option regardless of how that happens will enure to the benefit of the ruling banking class, who owns the HMO’s and who rents the U.S. government with an option to buy called the THE BAILOUT CLAUSE.

There ARE some jobs we CAN afford to lose in America, and those are the jobs at United Health Care, Humana, Cigna, Wellpoint and Aetna whose job it is to deny and delay health care benefits for profit. All those jobs can be lost today, and the economy will actually benefit, and no one will miss those companies, their policies or their immoral practices. As far as the displaced employees, they could go on to public or social services like the Peace Corps or their local ministry where soul–searching and reflection can take place.

Then, if and when a public option is adopted, it cannot be modeled after the HMO benefit denial for profit playbook, as was laid out to Obama last spring when he invited these Captains of Shame (all the major HMO CEO’s) to the White House to consult on cost containment measures for public care.

As is quoted below in the Liverpool Pathway Guide, page 4, in the section titled “How Do You Know When to Use the Liverpool Care Pathway (to deep sedation induced euthanasia)”? the answer is give thusly:

The current plans of care need to be reviewed and inappropriate treatment or care stopped when the burden (of care) outweighs the benefits.

If you are prepared to have an IMAC board decide when the financial burden of care outweighs the societal benefits, then be prepared to fully hedge your “life settlement derivatives” with Goldman Sachs. They may be your best counter-chance of survival in a world run top down by a morally and financially bankrupt Imperial monetary system.

 

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