It appears to IHRT that Karen has been able to take control over endogyn to promote her book and other enterprises.
The very last posting (it may indeed be the very last posting) appears that Karen is hawking the book.
Never satisfied with the trapped ever eager audience of endogyn.....it appears that Karen branches out on her " "Grand Internet Book Promotion Tour".
Look below.
Ouch......Kruschinski takes a big hit as Karen tries to sell one book!
The blog author below is well spoken and knows our hell and can smell a Karen or a Kru from miles away.
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"It's just bullshit", or "An American free market failure", or "The hidden health care system"as people familiar with My Personal Situation may known, my wife, Helen, has poor health. her situation is, as near as best can be established, due to a long term failure of the medical side of the American healthcare system, with all its high technology, supposed high quality, et cetera, et cetera. in fact, almost all of the afflications she currently suffers are nosocomial. they involve operative adhesions and all that.that's not my point. that's another problem. it's a serious one, relating to medicine failing to be a science, but one not pertinent here.what is pertinent here is that my wife's condition gives a really unique insight into the workings of the American healthcare system, insurance, healthcare providers, Medicare, billing, and all. that's because during (just) 2005-2006 she had about a thousand separate and billable medical interventions or procedures (*). this is the canonical "step response" engineers use to characterize (even complicated) systems.this information is gleaned from what MVP Health Care provided as a "patient profile" for the years 2005 and 2006. this is a listing of each and every claim which was submitted on Helen's behalf to them from any health care provider.now, some clarifications. this is a complicated business.the waters are very muddied by MVP's own faux pax. in late July 2006 they declared that they had discovered they were secondary insurers behind Medicare's primary status. up to that time, they insisted they were primary. whether that was a simple mistake or a side effect of Helen's tasking their profit line, i have no idea. i do not know how anyone, shy of a court ordered auditor, might find out.but, nevertheless, MVP's actions after that "discovery" are IMO reprehensible. they withdrew all payments to health care providers for all of 2005-2006. this is hundreds of thousands of dollars, mind you. as a result, since they had been "reclassified", Medicare withdrew all their payments. all and every health care provider had to resubmit all of Helen's claims. by my preliminary counts, we're talking in excess of 2000 claims. then Medicare began paying back as primary insurer, and then MVP paid as secondary. oh, except that even in many of those cases MVP claimed either insufficient documentation was supplied, or that the health care provider (or we) had to submit a copy of the primary insurer's Explanation of Benefits. that's Medicare's EOB.the sequel i intend to post here will show that the payout rate to healthcare providers is not only miserly, it suggests an overt plan on MVP's part to discourage collecting payments. it is the behavior of a monopoly.sure, MVP is one particular Health Management Organization ("HMO"). but it is difficult to believe they are that unusual or atypical. if they are usual or typical, then it's clear there are other factors making the American health care so expensive than the standardly claimed need for expensive Rx or too many tests or people running to the doctor's office too often. there appears to be an undercover and systematic attempt on the part of some insurance companies to deny proper payments to health care providers, and, worse, impose upon them arbitrary costs and burdens intended solely to discourage them from pursuing reimbursement. if you were to examine many of the claims, you'd see MVP paying nothing or $20 on claimed from health care providers for hundreds.what angers me the most is that this is advertised by politicians as being a free market system, politicians who applaud its superiority to other models. they have apologists ready to run to their defense.yeah? then explain my wife's insurance profile for 2005-2006.the insurance companies may claim that they are "only" trying to make a profit on their business. but since when does that justify you or i taking fraudulent actions and misrepresenting the truth, simply because it is more profitable? (*) as will become ever clearer on this subject, definitions will matter a great deal. in this case, the number of medical interventions is estimated as being half the total number of billing actions from healthcare providers to insurance, where those actions have already been reduced by the insurance being secondary, Medicare being primary. this is done because, as will be seen in the sequel, the majority of billing actions are seemingly and arbitrarily denied by this insurance company.
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Oh My Lord.... (Anonymous) 2007-03-17 02:56 pm UTC (link)
I stumbled across your site and had to respond! I fought for my daughter's health for 14 years! American doctors failed her repeatedly!!! The insurance company paid for umpteen years worth of worthless "tests", but when I found a doc who could help her out of her trapped hellhole, they would not pay for his services! Why? Because he was in Germany! So, we had to fund this surgery (taking out a loan, because the overpriced "health" insurance company viewed this man's expertise over this illness as "experimental" and not FDA approved! Of course, the health insurance company and FDA were not hovering over a commode every day or doubled over in excruiating pain as my daughter was! Anyway,......now my daughter is living her life again. (She suffered from adhesions!!) I wrote a book...www.karensteward.com (if you want to look), as doctors hide the illness of adhesions and I intend to expose it!!YOU should write a book! Your postings here shine a huge light on the injustice of our medical "care" in the good 'ol USA....I encourage you...keep screaming, keep exposing! ......Karen
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Re: Oh My Lord.... 2007-03-18 01:07 am UTC (link)
thank you, Karen. i posted the second installment today.i don't think i'm up for a book, as i've so many other things i need to do. i did forward links to and at your Web site to my wife, Helen, as well as the doc who is primarily treating her.as for me, i find the concept of a preventative adhesion gel something that i'd need more information about before i would pursue it, although the underlying problem is assuredly real. and i'm glad your daughter had success.but, basically, Dr Kruschinski has less than three dozen cases where the treatment resulted in succcess. sorry, i'm skeptical, but it's my training. i'd need to either have a definitive mechanism for how the gel inhibits unwanted differentiation of tissues, or some kind of longitudinal study for the group that has been treated. adhesions grow slowly. just because the group in question has a lot of post-operative success does not mean this treatment will prevent the adhesions return.i do agree physicians are irresponsible at wanting to sweep under the rug what is essentially an extremely painful of the medical system's standard approach.incidently, Helen's medical history began with endometriosis, too.
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Here's another stop on the grand book promo internet tour
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In medicine there is a saying: When you hear hoof beats, look for horses, not zebras. Simply put: Most ailments are common and rare ailments are rare. Physicians are taught to look for the common rather than the uncommon. Though this advice may seem innocent and practical for the physician, it falls woefully short for the lone zebras of the world! ARD sufferers (zebras) are often ignored by physicians, misdiagnosed, or simply chalked up as “depressed” individuals. PLEASE JUST TAKE A FEW MINS AND LOOK! IT MIGHT CHANGE YOUR LIFE! http://www.karensteward.typepad.com/ Posted on 03/15/07, 04:03 pm
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This may be of interest to you: Doctors: Bound by Secrecy? Victims: Bound by Pain! You can check it out at http://www.karensteward.typepad.com./ I hope all here can get help, as the doctors sure don't seem to know what's up. Posted on 03/15/07, 04:03 pm
Dr Daniel Kruschinski taught you well......go to the most vulnerable population you can find and sell em snake oil.
P.S. Karen you spelled excrutating wrong lol.
P.S.S. Karen did you not say at one time that insurance compensated you for the trip to Germany????? Hmmmmmmmm.
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