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Centralia,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, November 06, 2009
I too have been ripped off by Aetna, mine was LTD, see Report: #167002. I do have some suggestions for people who have spent the time writing to Rip off report---NOW is the time to also write your elected representitives in Washington DC! Whether you agree with the health care plan or not, I think we all agree that health insurance companies have abused way too many patients and need some regulation. At the very least the ERISA law needs to be changed to favor the patient rather than the insurance companies! So, write, email, or call your elected representitive and tell them your story, maybe refer them to Rip Off Reports to read all the abuses by Aetna.
Also, contact some of the Senators/US Reps who are not in your state, specifically, Speaker of the House Pelosi (you have to go to her Speaker page), Senators Dodd and Lieberman (as they represent the state Aetna is HQ'd in), Senator Shumar, as he has called for anti-trust legislation against the Health Insurance companies, and especially Representitive Waxman in Calif, as he is gathering info to have House hearings on the abuse of health insurance companies as I type!!! Anyone else you see standing in front of the cameras demanding health insurance company reform--contact them with your story! It is IMPORTANT they all hear these stories! Not only should you write or call or email them, your families should too if they were adversely affected by what happened to you, the more the merrier!
Unfortunately, in some of the above cases, you will have to just look up and use a zip code from their represented areas, because most won't look at anything from someone outside their district, which I feel is wrong, as someone like Rep Waxman is on a committee that represents all in the USA not just those in his district and therefore needs to hear from people all over about the abuse they have sufferd from these health insurance companies. I use my actual city, and their zip code, and at the bottom of the email I tell them my actual zip code. You also might want to suggest to your own Senators and Reps that they give a copy of your email to anyone they know working on any health insurance committees for reference.
Write well, write often, I do it once a week!