>"An appeal means coaxing your doctor and staff to spend hours filling out forms and making repeated phone calls to joust with an insurance company employee."

The hospital where I receive my cancer treatments once told me "don't worry, our Denial Team is handling this."

They have a Denial Team. That is to say, insurance companies are imposing cost overheads on providers and patients due to their illegitimate profit boosting tactics. And our government can't be bothered to enforce the ACA's basic requirement to track and report denial rates.

>"No industry malfeasance could ever excuse murder.

"Period."

And yet, that's what it took for our media to start reporting on this? We have some real problems in this country, and a corporate news media asleep at the switch, or at worst complicit, is one of the most serious.