[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Are you somehow implying that this insurance decision, made by administrators of TVH, is somehow the fault of "the doctors" who provide patient care??? That they must be "greedy" and "uncaring". Get real.

Everyone should realize that TVH is a corporate environment, the physicians are employees, and even the medical directors of the individual centers have almost no input with regards to these decisions.

As far as "bait and switch", "lies", "fraud", and "deceit" goes, this is only true if patients were told they would be grandfathered AFTER the insurance change decision was made, which I doubt. There is no vast conspiracy about insurance decisions. They come up every year, and these decisions are usually made in a matter of weeks. So unless someone was specifically told they could stay in with traditional Medicare and supplement, AS A NEW PATIENT IN JUNE, there is very little basis for calling them liars. Things change, especially in healthcare these days. No one is being "dumped". If you are 65, you can either change you provider out of TVH, or change your insurance. Your choice, you cannot have both. Seems like the general expectation has been that everyone should be able to have their cake and eat it too. Not in the real world, not anymore.

I do think there is a very real generational expectation whereby the first baby boomers and their predecessors are more inclined to believe that the "system" is paternalistic. This is how they were raised and any deviation from their expectations is apparent in the many threads and postings on here. It's a shame because it would be nice if what they believed were really true. Thing is, it never was true.