Who What Where When and How-I hope someday that Advocate Health Care will be forced to answer Why

This is not a traditional blog in that it is not a journal. I created it to store annotated documents that illustrate how Advocate Health Care, of Oak Brook, IL., circumvented several Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regulations, with the blessing of CMS. These regulations were established to protect Medicare + Choice (Medicare Advantage) customers from being wrongly denied essential health care.

The result was that several Advocate Health Care beneficiaries endured a lot of harm.

Unfortunately, not a lot of people give a damn...even though anybody who has a Medicare or Medicare Advantage policy should be very concerned because the same thing can happen to them.

Advocate CEO, James Skogsbergh, rewarded by Mayor Rahm Emanuel

As I have written before, nobody has ever been willing to make Skogsbergh accountable for the harm that Advocate caused to my folks. I understand that probably nobody reads this, but we did not have the money, and thus the power, to pay for justice...so this is the best that I can do. I want to keep the memory of what happened to my folks alive. I do not intend it to be an extended rant, and that is why I have documented everything so carefully. Perhaps, someday, somebody important will be harmed by Advocate, and then the...uh...wrongdoers...at Advocate, might be made accountable.

Jim Duffett's still taking blood money from Advocate Health Care, via his Campaign for Better Health Care

It is absolutely sickening that Jim Duffett, the man behind the Campaign for Better Health Care, is taking money from Advocate Health Care. Advocate officials have never been made accountable for the deception that they perpetrated in the process of denying the beneficiaries specific medical procedures. The denial of the procedures caused the beneficiaries to suffer, and caused more medical problems for the beneficiaries. It is most likely that the wrongdoing, eventually led to the death of one of the beneficiaries.

Prior to my finding out that Duffett was accepting money from Advocate, I had wondered why his staff was relatively complacent when I presented them with the documentation of Advocate's wrongdoing. I was not seeking assistance from them, I merely wanted to illustrate how health insurance is a moot point, if the proper health care is not delivered, and how Advocate circumvented the CMS's regulations.

Several times I had asked to speak with Duffett, but he was always unavailable.

Now, I know why.