Prior Authorization: Who saves? Who loses?
October 24, 2022 am31 5:10 am
Who saves?
- The City
- The Stabilization Fund
- Michael Mulgrew
- The Insurance Companies
Who pays?
- Soon? Retirees. (unless we stop them)
- Eventually? All of us.
- (and the federal government)
What is the savings?
- To the City? They pay less for our insurance
- To the Stabilization Fund? Less money for us, means more for patronage
- To Mulgrew? The patronage, of course. Plus the powerful politicians and insurance companies pat him on the head.
- To the Insurance Companies? Huge, huge profits. Windfall. And they are clearly LESS efficient than REAL MEDICARE
What is the cost?
- To retirees: Fewer doctors (but Mulgrew says this is false)
- To the Feds? About an extra $320 per senior. This is a straight up subsidy to the parasitic insurance companies.
- To retirees: LESS MEDICAL CARE – that is why they add pre-authorizations – to deny care. (see this story)
JD2718 
They have no right to change our medical coverage since we had contracts in prior years…we were promised to keep health insurance plan…..let them change it going forward, NOT RETIREES!
No. Do not let them change it going forward.
Here I am, in service, not a retiree, almost a decade from Medicare, lending, adding my voice to the cause.
Please, do not say “let them change it going forward”
Our best chance is sticking together. Let’s not spoil that.