Health Care Realities

Yet private markets for health insurance, left to their own devices, work very badly: insurers deny as many claims as possible, and they also try to avoid covering people who are likely to need care. Horror stories are legion: the insurance company that refused to pay for urgently needed cancer surgery because of questions about the patient’s acne treatment; the healthy young woman denied coverage because she briefly saw a psychologist after breaking up with her boyfriend.

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Cafe White House - Lunch is on You!

By EAMON JAVERS Politico

Jarrett said the dinners with Emanuel aren’t free, either: Attendees split the tab.

The sessions, Jarrett said, are held “to make sure we are creating the kind of environment where CEOs are creating jobs. It’s to make sure we have the best information to turn the economy around.”

The discussion at the June 25 lunch was open ended, with no set agenda item, and touched on health care, education and the economic recovery

. Jarrett said the four companies were chosen because they are each dominant global corporations. “The president had recently returned from a trip overseas and he was eager to talk to these four huge global corporations about how they see the world economic situation.”

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