United HealthCare, a company infamous for its billion dollar offering to departing ceo william mcguire, has terminated its contract with our local hospital - the hospital asked to negotiate rates that were above medicare rates (in line with all commercial insurers) and United HealthCare declined, removing the hospital and all our local physicians from its network - employers and employees who signed on with unitedhc because of access to our local health care providers are now forced to travel many miles to find doctors who will accept new patients - sounds like a system designed to limit our access to care, and keep costs for the insurer down, allowing them more $ for those multi-million dollar salaries (mcguires 2005 compensation was @ 124.8 million according to sec filings - roughly 5% of the company's net income in some estimates - WE WANT OUR DOCTORS AND OUR HOSPITAL AND WE WANT THEM PAID A FAIR RATE!!!
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