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Here’s a follow up to my previous article, Aetna denies health insurance coverage to AARP member without good or just cause, published on August 25. I apologize in advance for grammar and spelling errors as I wrote this rather quickly.

The lackeys at Aetna sent me a letter in response to my previous blog entry (which I conveniently mailed to them). This letter contains more inaccurate information, lengthy demands for an appeal, and generally burdensome requirements for reconsideration of my application. At this point, I wonder why anybody wants to deal with Aetna, or any insurance company for that matter. More on this at the end.

Here’s the first troubling problem: In the Aetna letter dated September 8, the Aetna cubicle dwellers make this statement:

We have no record of an application submitted by you for an AARP Essential Premier Health Insurance Plan (AEPHIP) insured by Aetna and the application number.

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I can sympathize with the 14 million Americans who are unemployed as I have been unemployed for 16 months with little prospects for employment. Now I can identify and empathize with another group: the unemployed who also do not have health insurance. I’ve tried applying for public aid in Pennsylvania, and was put on a waiting list for their AdultBasic coverage. Recently, I applied for private health insurance through Aetna as an AARP member. I believed, going through AARP, that coverage could be expected, maybe not the cheapest but I could get coverage. I was quite wrong: Aetna denied me health insurance coverage. [read more]

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