Did anyone else appreciate the irony of Baptist Hospital having to settle a lawsuit with their employees over health benefits? From the article:
The lawsuit said that Baptist "violated the duties, responsibilities and obligations imposed upon them as a fiduciary" under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA.
The lawsuit accuses Baptist of requiring employees to pay more for services rendered at the hospital through MedCost than alternative health-care plans would have, including higher co-payments and lower discounts. It also said that employees paid higher fees than those required by MedCost from other corporate clients.
You may remember that I complained about my wife's MRI at Baptist last fall, so let's just say I'm sympathetic to the employees.
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The insurance is very expensive, especially if you don’t make a doctors salary. They cover only what they feel like….they have their own guide regarding coverage and its financially based. Horrible insurance…Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center should be ashamed for screwing its employees!!!
I really don’t know anything about WFU-BMC’s policies outside what
I’ve read about the settlement, but my personal experience with
multiple insurers over the years leaves me pessimistic that they’ll
ever clean up their acts without being forced. Right now I’d say our
health care system is teetering on the brink of total failure; it’s
already failing a huge portion of our population.