tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476621888383604834.post8316243940626670950..comments2024-02-15T03:26:38.897-05:00Comments on Health Care Organizational Ethics: Searching for a Secular Health Care EthicJim Sabinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087828142188534542noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476621888383604834.post-21530149416402235492007-10-01T13:59:00.000-04:002007-10-01T13:59:00.000-04:00Hi John Your comment about the lack of a total on ...Hi John <BR/><BR/>Your comment about the lack of a total on your annual medigap summary is interesting. If the reason is the one you speculate about it would be a dumb business decision for the insurer to make. If we have the good luck not to be sick of course our benefits will be less than the premiums we paid. That is the whole idea of insurance. Rather than hide the fact of the total the company could better congratulate you on your apparent good health!<BR/><BR/>I don't think "business ethics" is a contradiction in terms. While many businesses -- both for-profit and non-profit -- violate ethical norms, others conduct themselves admirably. Unfortunately for the latter, the widely publicized scandals lead to cynicism about all businesses.<BR/><BR/>Best --<BR/><BR/>JimJim Sabinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03087828142188534542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476621888383604834.post-67951803098392226502007-09-27T22:39:00.000-04:002007-09-27T22:39:00.000-04:00When you write that “the practical challenge is in...When you write that “the practical challenge is integrating business ethics and health care ideals," I have to ask if “business ethics” isn’t a contradiction in terms. I recall the annual summary of benefits that I receive every year from the insurance company from which I buy “gap” insurance to supplement Medicare. This summary sedulously itemizes every benefit that I received during the year – often running to three pages. But strangely the summary doesn’t give me a total for the year. I wondered whether it was too difficult for the computer programs that produce the summary to add up a column of numbers. Or did someone in management at the insurance company decide that it wasn’t in the company’s interest to enable customers to compare the total benefits they received with the premiums they paid? When I call and write the company to ask why they omit this important information, they say that most of their customers aren't interested!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com