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oh, Jon, don't get me started. I don't know whether you were on Medicare, Medicate plus supplement, or Medicare Advantage, but your experience is a-typical. I am on UHC's Medicare Advantage plan, for various reasons, but find them simply unacceptable and horrible in processing claims. I am waiting now for a claim filed months ago; no word from the company. The intake person for inquiring is clearly operating from a tight list of what she can to, so simply repeats over and over the official line. It is frustrating beyond imagination. USC is the largest and, I am guessing, one of the worst offenders in claim denial and delay. And they are the biggest provider in the US. We have the worst medical system in the industrialized world - worse outcomes and highest costs. The lobbying power of big Pharma, big insurer, big medical center/hospitals has warped our system beyond repair and recovery. National health is the only answer - yes, there, too, choices must be made, but they are not like the cruel, profiteering, piratical system we have. The frustration is national, everywhere. When I talk to professionals in the system, they all acknowledge that the system is broken and morally bankrupt. As much as I find the killing of the CEO a horror, and it is, it reflects a public fed up with this jerry-built, Rube Goldberg, fractured, profiteering mess that is American health care. I don't think Trump will deal with it; the Democrats don't have the courage to call for single payer national health; they didn't when Obama ducked on that option; they don't today. Big Health has bought and paid for their silence.

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