General Discussion

emphasis on hospital readdmissions because it's often a failure in care whether outpatient, inpatient, other facility, or wherever. Heck, under original Medicare, hospitals get punished if a patient is readmitted within so many days and medical records aren't sufficient to show patient needed rehospitalization.

If there is merit, the lawsuits will go against Optum with huge awards and, even more likely, the nursing home.

Until Congress gets off it ass and enacts rational healthcare legislation, we'll continue to have this kind of crud. Congress has had 60 years -- some of those years when Dems had control -- and this is the best they can enact?

I think Luigi would be justified if he had ever been insured by UHC or had a claim denied. He did not. His beef was with doctors who couldn't treat his self-inflicted nerve damage from weightlifting and exercise.