ProPublica: 'Galling' health insurance claim denials highlight 'scam' of for-profit care

ProPublica: 'Galling' health insurance claim denials highlight 'scam' of for-profit care

"Private insurance companies, including Medicare Advantage plans, are designed to generate profit. How do they do that? Take our money and then deny our care."A pair of new stories examining the increasingly common but shadowy U.S. insurance industry practice of refusing to pay for certain treatments drew outrage Wednesday from patient advocates and Medicare for All proponents, who said the reporting further reveals the harms of for-profit healt…