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ABC NEWS/GOOD MORNING AMERICA:
Senior With Fractured Back Battles UnitedHealthcare Oxford Health Insurance Company Medicare Advantage Plan

GMA segment shows UnitedHealthcare/Oxford’s Medicare Advantage Plan would not authorize woman’s care due to alleged age discrimination.
Audit shows Medicare Advantage providers with backlogs of unanswered patient complaints, plans that improperly denied claims, and concerns about marketing practices which do not follow government guidelines.

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Tamara Howard and her husband were forced to simultaneously fight her cancer and her insurance company, ultimately losing to both:

http://www.kmbc.com/health/18017742/detail.html

Carrying on where Kansas woman can’t at http://www.michaelmoore.com/

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Technorati Tags: BY, cancer, city, death, denial, Insurance, kansas, liver, Michael, Moore, sicko