Health Insurers Step up, Two-Years to Beat COVID, Treating Taiwan Badly

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Join Jim and Greg as they cheer multiple health insurers easing up on deductibles, co-pays, and coinsurance over coronavirus. They also wince as the head of the Centers for Disease Control says it will take two years to fully defeat COVID-19. And they fume as the World Health Organization and others pretend Taiwan doesn't exist in order to appease China and, in the process, ignores one the most successful coronavirus mitigation efforts in the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.
0:04.8	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:09.6	Three Martini's coming up.
0:11.8	It is Wednesday on the Three Martini's coming up. It is Wednesday on the Three Martini lunch,
0:16.0	and we're not fooling anybody today.
0:18.0	We're just glad March is over.
0:20.0	Jim, I'm usually sad to see March end
0:22.0	because it means most of the NCAA tournament is over,
0:25.2	but it does mean the Masters is usually on the way.
0:28.1	Neither of those, of course, are happening. We found out today that even Wimbledon in July
0:32.3	is cancelled for this year.
0:34.0	The Olympics were already postponed from July and August to next year, so we're not going to have a normal
0:39.4	year at all and we'll get more into that in the bad Martini.
0:42.2	But let's start with our good Martini,
0:43.4	because it's really important to focus on the good news,
0:46.5	not only for morale, but just to explain
0:48.8	that there is progress being made in this fight.
0:51.4	This is from NPR, Three major health insurance providers have now pledged to shield
0:56.4	patients from high medical bills if they need treatment for COVID-19. Insurers Cigna and
1:01.8	Humana announced Monday that they would waive consumer costs
1:04.9	associated with COVID-19 treatment and last week CVS Health announced a
1:09.2	more limited change that Aetna would waive cost to patients for hospital admissions related to the
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