If this truly is the case then there would not be ANY statute of limitations in Kaiser cases EVER since losing/witholding/destroying records IS fraud.

I was under the impression that if fraud was involved then mandatory binding arbitration no longer applied.

I would love to be there to see the report unveiled.

Michael Moore addressing the California state legislature on his new movie ‘Sicko’:

In this film that you will see tonight, we obtained some of Nixon’s famous White House tapes. These aren’t the discussions about Watergate. I will show in this film on February 17, 1971, a conversation between John Ehrlichman and Richard Nixon. They’re about to put forth the bills that would bring us the modern-day HMOs. And Ehrlichman says to Nixon, “Now, there is one more piece of this we have to figure out, we want to talk to the Vice President about this, and it is about these health maintenance organizations like Edgar Kaiser’s Permanente thing”, as he put it. And Nixon interrupts him and says “I don’t want to talk about these damn medical programs.” And Erlichman goes “Wait, this is a private enterprise one.” And Nixon goes, “Oh, okay, I like that.” And then Ehrlichman essentially boils down what would become the health insurance system that we now have today. Ehrlichman says to Nixon “the genius of Edgar Kaiser is what they want to do here is try and provide as little care as possible so they can make the biggest profit possible.” And suddenly Nixon lights up. And he says, “Oh, okay, this is great, fine, not bad. Let’s do this.” That is what they did. Once they understood what the basic premise was, that it was to provide less care for more profit, that was something that they loved.

That is the system that we have. The reason why, as our friend here said, the reason why we have to eliminate health insurance companies, I mean, they literally have to be removed from the equation, the reason for this is that there is no room for them. Because there should never be room for the word “profit” when you are trying to make a decision whether or not to provide somebody care when they get sick. Bottom line. You can never allow this to happen. They can’t make a profit unless they deny care, unless they deny claims, unless they keep people off the rolls who have preexisting conditions or kick people off the rolls who have diseases that become too expensive for them. They can’t make a profit.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation had become the largest commercial entity in the United States. Nine out of every ten homes contain its products. Its political and financial influence is felt everywhere.

In public, it is the world’s leading supplier of computer technology, medical products, and healthcare. Unknown, even to its own employees, its massive profits are generated by military technology, genetic experimentation and viral weaponry.

Yikes! Sound like anyone we know?