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Cut the crappola above about 'gomnt' being 'full of ignoramuses. It took me six months about two years ago to simply get my BILLING ADDRESS CHANGED as re: CIGNA Government Services which administers Medicare in: TN; ID; NC.

I called, submitted forms, called, submitted forms. I spent hours and hours when I could have been caring for clients as a psychologist.

CIGNA's 'Medicare Claims Express', the way a private provider submits electronic payment requests is so antiquated that it uses a DIAL UP MODEM. I had to farm out my billing to a person who spent two years in school to simply learn how to manipulate the CIGNA Medicare and private insurance company systems.

Contrarily, NC Medicaid, administered by EDS, is a wonderful, user-friendly, efficient machine.

BCBSNC which insures 75% of people who have insurance in NC-----AND WHO IS DEFENDED BY DEMOCRATIC SENATOR KAY HAGAN-----is using its stockpile of money to crash the single payer option. The former Democratic Party Chairman, Ken Eudy, created a company, CAPSTRAT, which creates the PR for BCBSNC; he was best man at BCBSNC CEO recent wedding (yes, I am a registered Democrat and proud of that).

More details here (NC Mental Health Reform which has decimated NC's mental health care system, here: http://madame-defarge.blogspot.com/

Details on BCBSNC, which for my 3 member healthy family, offers no preventive health care, and charges me premiums of $750/ month : http://madamedefarge2scutinizingbcbsnc.blogspot.com/

Marsha V. Hammond, PhD