* Paul Rech <rechpj at bitstream.net> [011118 09:35]:
> Blue Cross.  With Health Partners, you only see Health Parnter doctors.
> Again, no problem for us.  All the doctors we've had were very

Yeah, healthpartners, formerly known as group death, is pretty cool when
you dont have a really icky chronic illness.  Perhaps they've changed,
but a few years back they denied a close friend surgery to help put the
disease into remission because of the cost (they wanted her to see
student surgeons to do it instead of the one she trusted and was working
with) until her mom took it to the atty. generals office.  The doctors
were controlled by the HMO, so the procedure couldn't be done without
preauthorization.

My experiences with healthpartners has been mostly good.  The
pick-your-care-network stuff is so-so, though.  They say you can go see
a specialist if you want to, but its got to be in your 'care network'.
I've had issues with one specilist once and just stopped going to them
until I got off my parents plan and chose a different care network.

I'm going to be in Definity Health's insurance plan next year, I'm
pretty excited but dont know how its going to work out.
www.definityhealth.com

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