The quick way to fix this is to open a complaint with your state’s insurance regulatory body, which begins a paper trail and starts a clock ticking for your insurance provider.
Always Be Creating A Paper Trail
Always Be Creating A Paper Trail
I think a lot of people A) don't know about the state insurance regulatory body; and B) just want the nightmare to be over as soon as possible, so calling yet another person up is more time involved.
Every time it's happened to me it's staying on hold for an outrageous amount of time then saying something along the lines of, "I'm going to review this with my lawyer" when someone gets on the phone. It's the same with any bully - the moment they know you potentially have some teeth they leave you alone to go pick on a weaker target =(
I also have zero confidence in government employees so there's that too - I would just expect my case to end up on someone's desk indefinitely to never get addressed. Everything in this country is going towards anti-citizen and anti-consumer - hard not to be really bitter about it =(
Yeah... That's really not how it works here in the US, especially when it comes to healthcare. Corporate interests decide how the government runs healthcare.
Progress is a function of effort, not time. Things do not get better simply because a second hand tics by.
The problem is we can play by the rules all we want, but it's just not effective at all if the guy at the top can blatantly break the law in the public eye and get away with it laughing. We've got an entire party successfully subverting just about everything I was sold in my highschool government classes as a "functioning democracy".
Private insurance companies are held accountable by the customer's ability to switch plans.
I understand that billing is an incredibly frustrating issue, but forcing people to participate in one master healthcare system would be devastating to people battling poorly understood diseases. People in this situation desperately need choice in their healthcare options.