Endorsement of Candidate Padilla to Get Rid of Health Insurance Corruption

Endorsement of Candidate Padilla to Get Rid of Health Insurance Corruption By Dr. Charles Phillips "Dina Padilla is the best candidate for the job of Insurance Commissioner."
Phillips Charges Insurance Commissioner Poizner with covering up insurance fraud by insurance industry. he "helped Anthem Blue Cross to arrest Hispanic grandmother Shawn Dodd of Bakersfield on May 15, 2009 - for alleged insurance fraud" ..."She has been in jail for over one year with no trial; speedy justice means nothing to Mr. Poisner and his agents."

From Dr. Charles Phillips
Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM
Endorsement of Candidate Padilla to Get Rid of Health Insurance Corruption

Dear Voter,

As a licensed physician in California, I am hereby endorsing Dina Padilla for the position of Insurance Commissioner. I believe that she is the only candidate who can clean up the mess left by Mr. Steve Poizner. He and Anthem Blue Cross of California have worked together to keep the benefits down for the many middle wage earners, like the teachers.

A careful analysis will show that top health executives in California get the best health care and wonderful perks as they spend their days planning how to cut benefits and increase profit. Mr. Poizner has part of all this. At the same time, he has allowed Anthem to have health insurance products outside of the Department of Managed Health Care to keep physicians and patients as confused as possible.

Since Mr. Poizner made over one billion on designing and patenting GPS cell phone chips, he has never worried about his own health care. He could buy his own hospital and be the single patient if he wanted - pampered by specialists. He has not been fighting for the common patient while at the helm of the Department of Insurance. Someday we will learn how he lobbied Washington, DC to get his phone chip into favored position to get rich.

Perhaps Mr. Poizner's worst abuse of office came about as he - and his Fresno field office - helped Anthem Blue Cross to arrest Hispanic grandmother Shawn Dodd of Bakersfield on May 15, 2009 - for alleged insurance fraud (People v. Shawn Dodd, Kern County, BF127872A. She has been in jail for over one year with no trial; speedy justice means nothing to Mr. Poisner and his agents.

As one looks closely at that case, the wrong people are in jail. There is, rather, and Anthem Blue Cross gang whose goal is to make more money for WellPoint, Inc. in Indiana. The latter organization lost half its value - stock dropping form 80 to 40 - in November of 2008. They chose to damage Mrs. Dodd - helping to manage a physical medicine clinic - so as to save money. She become a "stimulus" to Anthem/WellPoint profit. It is about the same as the Kaiser model explained to Nixon - the less care we give the more money we make).

Ehrlichman: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can—the reason he can do it—I had Edgar Kaiser come in—talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because—" President Nixon: [Unclear.] Ehrlichman: —the less care they give them, the more money they make.

I would challenge Mr. Poizner to show how much Anthem Blue Cross is sending out of California each year to WellPoint as profit. Perhaps $25 million a year or more. He can get the answer quickly if he does not already have it.

Though many of our county jails are letting the white collar crime accused go home with ankle monitors, Mr. Poizner and the Kern County DA (Mr. Jagels) prefer to have Mrs. Dodd in jail where they can monitor all over her phone calls - every one typed up - and withhold medical care from her as well. She also has Blue Cross insurance and has to pay premiums while getting no care. The county jail treatment for chest pain is delayed tylenol - no stress test.

Particularly interesting to me - a physician with six months of studying criminal law on the side - is that the conversations with the Department of Insurance agents and a Republican CPA (the DA Jagel's campaign treasurer) have been obviously erased. After five interviews - perhaps ten hours of time - the only tape recording shared with Mrs. Dodd's defense attorney is completely blank! This may be standard operating procedure for Mr. Poizner's agents, since his run for governor is centered on having lots of raids and putting lots of people in jail.

Mr. Poizner has put his own opinions of Mrs. Dodd - no trial yet - on the state DOI web site - claiming that she is guilty. Perhaps he needs to go to jail for the false arrest and evidence tampering of his agents. It would not surprise me if he has spent $1 million against Mrs. Dodd, though the "evidence" room is such a mess that the investigators walk on the paper. Do we need to waste all this money? If it is all proven a sham accusation, he should personally reimburse California, Kern County, and Mrs. Dodd. Kern County has already paid almost $10,000,000 to prisoners for false imprisonment under DA Jagels.

I have become so incensed with this insurance scheme to wreck a clinic, I have named it the Anthem Blue Cross gang - Mr. Poizner included. I have wondered at times if I am in Burma rather than Bakersfield - and mutter Burma-field at times. I wish that a candidate for Insurance Commissioner like Dina Padilla was given the right to investigate a department during a campaign. State departments seem well protected from any sunshine.

My own hopes for the Department of Insurance go way beyond cleaning up Mr. Poisner's mess. I would like to see the next Insurance Commissioner make sure that good medical care is given, that physicians are paid honestly, that medical records cannot be changed after the care, that the false advertising (like Kaiser's Thrive) stops, and that patients have a lot more say about insurance rates jumping up so fast.

One particular company that needs future investigating is "American Specialty Health" or ASH in San Diego in which a VA physician can secretly deny SISC/Anthem care to patients (many teachers) - like physical medicine - and feel federally protected in the VA clinic. In that case the public simply needs to have an advocate in Sacramento who will make all such decisions as transparent as possible. Meanwhile, if anyone goes to the ASH recruiting web site, it is clear that the executives all get physical medicine care right in the building as perks.

Having practiced medicine in the United States (40 years), Canada (two years), New Zealand (three months), Thailand (three months), and Saudi Arabia (two years - including coverage of the Jeddah Palace), I think I have figured out how to make the medical care make sense. The answer is to make sure that all the middle meddlers in health care - including insurance benefit blockers - have to endure the same care themselves!

And I think Dina Padilla is the best candidate for the job of Insurance Commissioner. She will stop insurance fraud by all parties including Anthem Blue Cross. Where she cannot solve things, she will be in a position to at least turn on the lights. And that is all the middle class in California really needs - truth in health care.

Charles Phillips, MD - Fresno (in the phone book all my career) -
[Party Affiliation - Independent - looking for the best candidate]
Dina Padilla's website is
http://www.padilla4insurancecommissioner.com

Photo is of Dina Padilla speaking at San Francisco Labor Council