Insurers Are Pocketing A JAW-DROPPING Amount Of Your Money On Fake Diagnoses
Insurers are pocketing Medicare Advantage funds for fake diagnoses. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Your Support is Crucial to the Show: tyt.com/team
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"Gloria Lee was perplexed when the phone calls started coming in from a representative of her Medicare insurer. Could a nurse stop by her Boston home to give her a quick checkup? It was a helpful perk. No cost. In fact, she’d get a $50 gift card.
After several such calls in 2022, Lee agreed. A nurse showed up, checked her over, asked her questions, then diagnosed her with diabetic cataracts."
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The greed of the capitalist system knows no bounds
@JamesJones-sf3du
Ай бұрын
Greed of people.
@aggressive.progressive
Ай бұрын
@@JamesJones-sf3du enabled by the capitalist system.
@vincesmith2499
Ай бұрын
Then go move to Venezuela.
@beanabovethefrank1499
Ай бұрын
Amok capitalism.
@beanabovethefrank1499
Ай бұрын
@@vincesmith2499 Because, of course, why try to fix it? If it doesn't affect you, it's because everyone wants communism, or something. You must be happy having your tax dollars going to a greedy insurance company. What a drone.
What did politicians expect, when they "privatize" our public healthcare?????
We've known this for decades. The largest defrauders in the country are the insurance middlemen
Why are there not people being arrested and going to jail for this. And not the club fed but real prison.
The advantage of Medicare advantage is the advantage of insurance providers is to boost the bottom line of the executives and shareholders
Why does insurance get to decide ANYTHING with medical care? Pretty sure they're not doctors...
@Jay_Frank
Ай бұрын
I've been asking this question for over a decade.
Cenk, you need to follow-up that statement about a free nurse with the FACT nurses DO NOT diagnose. At least they are not supposed to.
How is this not fraud? Both practicing medicine without a license and billing fraud
Please keep covering healthcare in our country - it is an absolute nightmare of fraud and legalized theft!
US has the most uneffective healthcare system from the 1st world countries, by much. Why is government using an insurance companies as a middle mens to pay doctors, that just increase spending
@markremy4946
Ай бұрын
$$$$$
Yep no assassination attempt here. Nothing to see here
@Recon777x
Ай бұрын
I came here to check on just that, actually. Wonder if/when they will cover it and what they will say.
@beanabovethefrank1499
Ай бұрын
You're about 12 hours late to the game, fool. All you need to do is look for the video Cenk made right after the incident. You trolls really suck. You don't even try.
Health care is a business. They make money off of people’s illnesses.
@jaxx-ld2bu
Ай бұрын
FACTS 💯💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
This sounds like how many nursing homes operate. How about a story about nursing homes too? Many times there is overbilling for basic things, and if the seniors can't pay what they may be billed by the nursing home, they are tossed out like trash.
They are charging me double for erectile dysfunction treatment. It's getting very hard.
@jaxx-ld2bu
Ай бұрын
You're so wrong for this!!😢🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@artyfhartie2269
Ай бұрын
@@jaxx-ld2bu What should I do?
Put som execs in prison and it will never happen again.
You literally can’t trust anything in this country anymore. I don’t donate to charities or anything anymore. It’s overrun with greed😔
This is EXACTLY why we the government needs to handle insurance, AFTER we get money out of politics.
talk about inflation.....guess what insurance does....it makes EVERYTHING it covers more expensive....I am continuously amazed at how many americans have zero concept of how any of this stuff works.
@mohamedbenhamida5652
Ай бұрын
you can't blame inflation for fraud!? it is like blaming inflation for robbery.
@AnonymousAnonymous-fm9iw
Ай бұрын
@@mohamedbenhamida5652 thats not what im doing.....im pointing out that insurance makes things more expensive because it takes price out of the equation and since the person making the decision isn't paying the bill they don't care......if you eliminated health insurance health care costs would get cut in half over night......get it.
Love this woman
In Canada we pay our taxes and our govt pays the doctors. Less movement for cheating.
@lowboyyy
Ай бұрын
and you have the longest wait times
Uhhh, this sounds like fraud. Why aren't people in prison???
@panch0bill
Ай бұрын
Because it’s not democrat v republican, it’s us v them
What a shock!!! Thank you for the info!!! This wasn't on big news channels.
To quote Cenk? "OF COURSE!".
We need this exposed and talked about more and more. Thanks ya'll!
Your health system sucks!
@noigelskram2435
Ай бұрын
That's because we have to subsidize yours.
@Dan16673
Ай бұрын
@@noigelskram2435100%
@IAMTHESWORDtheLAMBHASDIED
Ай бұрын
@@noigelskram2435 huh?
@Jay_Frank
Ай бұрын
@@noigelskram2435 What exactly do you mean by that? Who's health care does the US subsidize?
I'm getting hit with that now I went in for medication for my toe fungus getting out of hand. I know exactly what I want to get and yet I'm being forced to go through a bunch of other tests because they saw my blood pressure was a little high. Well, I already know that , but yet I'm being forced to flirt with these freaks. The next thing you know I think they're going to deny me my toe medicine because I won't cooperate.
@harpoonhunter1683
Ай бұрын
What test did he fail ???? Tomallen5837: cricket sounds
@tomallen5837
Ай бұрын
@harpoonhunter1683 I'm sorry, what are you going off on? do you want to clarify?
The insurance industry is skewing diagnosis counts that peer reviewed medical journals use in their studies. This is a real problem.
How many people are going to prison for this? none? Carry on then I guess.
Elizabeth Warren, one of the great native Americans in our history
US healthcare run by insurance companies.Great system!
Nurses should no diagnose unless you are a Nurse practiced. Lower license not allowed. Again illegal they could lose their license and pay thousands in fines and could go to jail.
Pretty sure everyone? knows that insurance companies are the literal worst
This is making me nauseous, their cheap little give me money hacks they are doing and then denying needed medical care. That's murder.
Lawsuit in coming it sounds like.
Maybe dont let businesses diagnose people.
I applied for Medicare part A,and B. I knew that Medicare Advantage is scam. When Medicare Advantage sales people call me to switch to Medicare Advantage, I just hang up the phone.
I’m a doctor… this happens too often. Then you have to spend too much calming the patient
It's only stealing if you're poor
@imbalancedstatus8824
29 күн бұрын
Or you steal from the rich. Ask Madoff
I’ve experienced this-although not to such a degree-but I get different diagnoses for mental illness dependent on what the insurance will want.
How come I figured this out 10 years ago but it's just now news?
The trolls are thick in this comment section. Some desperate peeps here.
@Boris80b
Ай бұрын
yep... full of deflection and lame excuses
Doctors are complicit.
We have refused to accept additional "offers" from our insurance companies for years. Since we are healthy and see our PCP regularly, there was only one reason for them to offer such services, and that was to pad bills. Every week over the past four years, UHC has left about 20 phone messages (not texts, actual voice messages) requesting we call them back and allow them to send a "representative" to our house to "help us maximize our medical care.
She never played. 💯 Tired of corrupt politicians
These doctor's scam us or the insurance companies often. My dentist sent me to a "specialist" for a root canal that I'm not sure that I need.The specialist say she couldn't perform the root canal after I took time off to make this appointment possible. She charged me $215 upfront for a ct scan. She said I have infections everywhere. I need to remove all of my infected teeth through another specialist because she can't do it on this appointment visit. She recommended dentures and know where I can have it done. Significance Dental Specialist on Cascade Valley in Las Vegas!! suck!! There's a scam brewing at this location.
@Jay_Frank
Ай бұрын
Not the doctors, insurance companies.
Idk what people expect. Never trust inelastic necessities to private market. Its a recipe for extortion
Uhhhhh! I'm just 🤢 sick!
As an insurance agent who enrolls people into ACA health plans I can confidently say that most people don’t have a clue on how their insurance works. Medicare for all is the only answer.
How is Alan's 13 Keys doing now? kek
Omg who are these? What are their stock name
If they give me the money, I could imagine I deserve it and seek treatment for Narcissism. Or keep me so far under the poverty event horizon that my hysteria becomes disabling and receive double disability? With that in mind, perhaps dual and multi diagnosis people should receive double or however many diagnoses they have times benefit Payment. Cause wouldnt the person with half a dozen or more need tons of care?? Nah just throw them $500 and watch the horror show, right??
Backed by sen Rick Scott aka lurch
@GhosPoison
Ай бұрын
lol lurch
Great job reporting, lady and gentleman. Thank you!
God bless the NHS.
sad tging is when youre on the reg united health plan via marketplace, you cant find a pcp for months, they took telehealth away which was our loophole for a pcp, getting referrals is a nightmare....its now halfway through july. i found a live pcp in june to be told in july, no longer takes. and i still dont have a referral for a neurosurgeon for an aneurysm i was advised in dec. and when i was hospitalized for low pptassium we realized i need disolvable potassium, still dont have. and ironically my 99mg gummies werent cutting into my low potassium.
50 billion should go to free medical care for all
@vincesmith2499
Ай бұрын
Why should other people have to pay your healthcare bills? Stop being selfish.
You don’t say.
This happened to my grandmother, said a UTI was a super infectious bacterium and did unnecessary hazmat shit.
This country are so sad. Solve nothing
Corruption in the insurance biz? Are insurance company CEO aware of this? 🙂
@JoseSanchez0795
Ай бұрын
Yes, they do it!
@glenpeters9097
Ай бұрын
@@JoseSanchez0795 Yes Jose, my comment was meant as; tongue in cheek!
How are they not in prison?
Please stop pushing for Joe Manchin! The guy is the worst Democratic politician ever.
It sounds like a Video Game or Cheesy Game Show with door prizes. Hit the buzzer, win a prize. Collect 5 and score a Bingo.
The main benefits of Medicare Advantage are vision and dental. To get that, patients are usually tied down to a network in their state, so they will pay out-of-network fees if they need any care while they are traveling out of state. Medicare is available nationwide without any out of network costs. Paying for vision and dental care is almost certainly cheaper than the out of network costs if you become ill or have an accident on a trip outside of the state where you live.
Yeah im getting robbed , everybody knows that ,
God help Us. These people have non pulse..
Health insurers don’t provide diagnosis.
@GhosPoison
Ай бұрын
They hire their own set of doctors to verify the results
@Joe-ij6of
Ай бұрын
@@GhosPoison "verify" ...in an extraneously creative way. To the OP, Yes, Medicare Adv insurers are actually doing this and over charging the Fed gov't, using a system some stupid GOP "think" tank came up with to partially privatize medicare, over ideology and money. I suppose money is the ideology, I guess.
@evolvedape3341
Ай бұрын
@@GhosPoison Only in limited circumstances and even then they do not diagnose.
Duhhh
An error in your medical records can adversely effect your future actual treatment with potentially severe outcomes
Of course they are. If they didn't at least try, their shareholders could press charges.
I worked on a project to fix that. It will be a $100B per year problem by 2030. Tax dollars going straight to insurers profits.
@fact-o-pedio4603
Ай бұрын
I see why my mother makes 100's of thousands every year as a senior accountant working at one of these private insurance companies. Trust me I always thought she was overpaid, but who cares we get to go on holidays in Europe 😂😂😂.
This is racketeering.. nothing less.
Your divisiveness has culminated to this point the young turks
Wait, capitalism isn’t honorable?
Well duh
Unfortunately TYT, while these coding errors do occur, you all really misunderstood the issue. A) In many cases, docs do indeed miss adding diagnoses, and the result is that patients don't get the care they need. That's the point of the program and you left it out. B) Lots of health insurers have negative margins on their Medicare Advantage book; you make it seem MA is some big scam, not the case. C) Health insurers actually play a pretty big role not just in documenting coding issues, but also intervening directly to close care gaps.
@victorias935
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@tioswift3676
Ай бұрын
Found the insurance agent
@Wikimedian
29 күн бұрын
@@victorias935 Is that laughter in embarrassment?
This wouldn’t happen if America had universal healthcare.
@vincesmith2499
Ай бұрын
Why should I have to pay for your healthcare with my taxes?
@zombinekiller
Ай бұрын
@@vincesmith2499why should a third party turn a profit off of healthcare that everyone needs? If you’re getting healthcare out of it too then it is really like you are paying for your healthcare. A single payer system incentivizes seeking medical help when you need it.
@HappyBanjo-oc3pc
Ай бұрын
@@FactsMatter999 Thanks for catching my mistake. I just corrected it.
@HappyBanjo-oc3pc
Ай бұрын
@@vincesmith2499 Every country that has universal healthcare has way better healthcare than America.
@beanabovethefrank1499
Ай бұрын
With integral oversight.
Everyone lies - dr house.
My comment keeps getting deleted here. I tried twice to post a comment that gives info about this topic but I guess it was too critical of our Capital Hill politicians and Big Insurance. Are we not allowed to criticize our Capital Hill politicians and their relationship with Big Insurance? Why won't they let my comment be posted? Yes, I criticized the Medicare "DisAdvantage" industry and told the truth about why people enroll in them -- there's no cap on yearly out-of-pocket medical expenses with Original Medicare Part A and B. And our wonderful politicians will do whatever Big Insurance tells them to do. They will NEVER let them put a limit on the patients' yearly maximum expenses with original Medicare -- because then there would be NO NEED for their "scam-advantage" plans, which provide such a huge profit for Big Insurance. What a disgusting shameful way for them to use older retired people as a revenue stream. Terrible.
yes, vote them out...but think of all the jobs 🤪
Had Medicare Advantage since 2009. Now provider merged with Anthem. I get a copy of each doctor/dentist claims to Anthem, for my use of benefits. Haven't noticed any fake diagnoses. United Health Care is AARP's Medicare representative.
Is that why at my perfectly routine physical my physician asked if I was sure I didn’t feel like a woman and slipped me a pamphlet with hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery? I’ll be damned
@beanabovethefrank1499
Ай бұрын
We'll just nod and believe this story you're saying.
@ericpmoss
Ай бұрын
oh shut the hell up, troll. You like being ripped off?
@ToxiCisty
Ай бұрын
@@beanabovethefrank1499 it was quite an interesting read, with the exception of the illustrations unexpected age. Quite young.
@beanabovethefrank1499
Ай бұрын
@@ToxiCisty I think you identify as a buffoon.
Nurses do not diagnose people.
@IAMTHESWORDtheLAMBHASDIED
Ай бұрын
hah, that was the first thing I said, out loud-for some reason, lol, after he said that... like. ok Cenk... Sure.... lololololol wtf.
@AnonymousAnonymous-fm9iw
Ай бұрын
Nurse practitioners do
@faerykat
Ай бұрын
@AnonymousAnonymous-fm9iw Nurse Practitioners are referred to as Nurse Practitioners, not nurses.
@AnonymousAnonymous-fm9iw
Ай бұрын
@@faerykat thats how you refer to them they are nurses is a doctor of oncology not a doctor??
@Jay_Frank
Ай бұрын
Yes that's true, however do you really expect the average American to know that? Cenk also gave an example of how manipulative they can be.
So we’re just gonna ignore the assignation attempt by you lefties???
@steveb6386
Ай бұрын
Was a false flag. Alex Jones is saying so, crises actors involved. He knows.
@Sarah-said
Ай бұрын
These are timed release videos, they come out regardless of what is happening. Cenk has already sent out at least one video about what happened to Trump. Why are you watching this channel if you're so concerned about Trump?
4:49 At least we have democracy!!!! 😂😂😂😂
CIGNA was the shithole involved in this. They didn't name any other companies. As much as it pains me, probable shouldn't overly generalize on all of these companies (except Anthem. Anthem is notoriously terrible.).
Tell us something we don't know. How about you talk about how Obamacare made the situation permanently worse...
I worked for an insurance company. We paid out $1.15 in claims for every $1.00 we received in premiums.
@trajan74
Ай бұрын
Things that never happened for $2000, Alex.
America yeah!
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@IAMTHESWORDtheLAMBHASDIED
Ай бұрын
cipher?
@GAMakin
Ай бұрын
@@IAMTHESWORDtheLAMBHASDIED LOL A simple inversion "cypher" my brother and I used to confuse our parents. The emoji is a clue, with one "transposition" to throw-off the "uninitiated" Bots. 🤨
@Jay_Frank
Ай бұрын
@@IAMTHESWORDtheLAMBHASDIED Read it backwards lol
Pocahontas is ridiculous. nothing she proposes ever gets passed 😂
@beanabovethefrank1499
Ай бұрын
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Try harder.
@ericpmoss
Ай бұрын
So you like being ripped off, and having no one even try to do anything to stop it, not even to expose it?
@T.C.-st8uz
Ай бұрын
I love that she has used so much of her political career as a watchdog. Working to protect the people.
You guys are basically rooting on Trump. you will get what you asked for your president will be Trump. Biden is not leaving GTF over it
@sixstanger00
Ай бұрын
No one here is rooting for Trump. Stop lying. Biden is LOSING. That's why they're asking him to bow out. Don't blame TYT for reporting the facts. Sticking your head up your own ass to avoid hearing reality won't magically make Biden the winner.
@bowman1248
Ай бұрын
Trumps been in power All of this happened under his watch too. Don't be sucked in
@davidhand9721
Ай бұрын
Did they even mention him in this clip?
Stop putting that annoying "Thanks for watching" clip in the middle of EVERY video.
@klumpytheklown3798
Ай бұрын
Super annoying. Isn't it?
@FactsMatter999
Ай бұрын
It’s actually really dumb. When you are listening while working (with earbuds) it’s seems as if the video has already ended when she says “thanks for watching” it takes a while to get used to it 🤮🤮🤮
@beanabovethefrank1499
Ай бұрын
Why do you hate capitalism?
@klumpytheklown3798
Ай бұрын
@@beanabovethefrank1499 Good grief you ARE obtuse, arent you?
@beanabovethefrank1499
Ай бұрын
@@klumpytheklown3798 The program costs money. If you don't want to subscribe, but bitch about their ads while watching it for free, leave. All media outlets are feeling the pinch. Many have closed shop. TYT is trying to stay afloat in the midst of this restructuring. But I'm the one being obtuse? GFY.
it's your doctor who gets rich
@rf2048
Ай бұрын
No, it's not. Look at CMS reimbursement levels. It's been cut every year. CMS pays physicians at the same rate they did in 1996.
@posmoo9790
Ай бұрын
@@rf2048 This is such an esoteric piece of information, to even use the term "CMS reimbursement". it shows you have the depth of knowledge to the extent that you should also know you are wrong. First off in the 1990s yes congress put in cuts to CMS to try and control medicare spending, but literally every singe year congress also passes an exception so they never actually go through. Medicare rates are very high. They are an order of magnitude higher than any other developed country compared to their payments systems. There hospitals and providers (doctors) that get filthy rich off nothing but medicare. I spent my career in this. I spent my career as one of the bad guys, negotiating contracts on behalf of hospitals and doctors to make them rich. they are incredibly overcompensated and that is the first and most important reason our healthcare sucks. And then there's the final piece: medicare is only a small portion. No other country has doctors who get filthy rich. so then the question is why did you lie about this?
@rf2048
Ай бұрын
@posmoo9790 I'm not lying. You're just an idiot. Do a Google search. "When adjusted for inflation, physician pay is down 26% over the last 20 years." Hospital reimbursement, on the other hand, is up 100%. What the hell do you define as "filthy rich"? You must make 50k per year if you think 200-300k is "filthy rich" 😂
It hurts , it hurts really bad , i wouldnt have missed
The Young Terrorists.
The young. Turks always blames both parties equally, but of all the Supreme Court judges that have voted to unleash more money into the political process there's only been one democrat in 1976 that ever voted to do so All the other supreme court judges were republican. Why should people vote when you constantly miss educate people by leaving out such important facts.
What's this have to do with Biden's age?
@onceagain6184
Ай бұрын
Go back to sleep!
and ... Ana: your favorite orange jesus will never change that
@johnathoncastro
Ай бұрын
This is why Anna Is slowly walking away from you progressives. She done lying to you all just to save face.
Are you turning against President Biden. Iif so I will be unsubscribing from TYT
@DRHiggz
Ай бұрын
Everyone is accept you
@HowardWhitney24
Ай бұрын
@@DRHiggz your opinion for what it is worth and that is not much
@icedcoldkilla
Ай бұрын
Oh no, please don't unsubscribe.
@jesuscarino7436
Ай бұрын
Yes, Biden administration has been trying to assasinate trump since they know they cannot win.