The Real Story Behind the Phony Canceled Health Insurance Scandal

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27. Had Blue Cross through my employer in Fla for many years

They paid out thousands a year for almost 20 years with only one year that I actually used it for other than check ups and preventative care (it did cover mammograms and one free check-up a year). The year I retired I was diagnosed with Leukemia and the the tests are very expensive. The real value of my expensive policy showed its rather ugly face. There seemed to be multiple deductibles so I ended up paying almost 6000 of my own money on a 2500 $ deductible plan plus the teaching hospital where my Oncologist practices comped over 2000 and Blue Cross paid out a grand total of 600 bucks! This is after 20 years of close to ten thousand a year paid out in a group plan by my employer. This must be why in Fla Blue Cross has been nicknamed "Double Cross". And I am well at the moment, thank you and really appreciate the single payer VA healthcare I qualified for in retirement along with medicare. All these are far superior to Double Cross!