Wednesday's letters: PIP bill increases stress on emergency rooms
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Bill would increase stress on emergency rooms
As expected, the paranoia fueled by the insurance lobby concerning the need for PIP reform has caused the Florida Legislature to take leave of its collective senses, common or otherwise.
The latest House proposal would require anyone injured in an auto accident to seek treatment at a hospital emergency room within 72 hours or risk denial of future PIP benefits for subsequent treatment.
Beautiful. Let's increase the stress on emergency rooms already overburdened by patients (often without health insurance) who use ERs for their primary care needs. All under the guise of assuaging the cries of rampant PIP fraud by insurance giants such as State Farm and Allstate.
The truth is that insurance providers already investigate suspicious claims, and should their own doctors advise that additional care is unnecessary, further PIP financed treatment is denied.
Monte Stevens, the legislative affairs director for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, has stated that this most recent proposal "takes the biggest step in stamping out PIP fraud." Tell that to the parent of a feverish child whose wait for treatment in the local emergency room has just gotten much longer.
Robert E. Heyman, St. Petersburg
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Creating jobs for veterans
As a sixth-generation Floridian, I attended college in Florida and then left the state to pursue my master's degree. I returned in January 2011 after serving several years in the U.S. Marine Corps with a combat tour in Afghanistan. During my six-year absence, Floridians elected a new governor and new legislators, and the nation inherited new economic issues that left a plethora of my fellow veterans jobless.
As I look back on my first year out of the military, I recall countless business leaders, legislators, recent college graduates and educators discussing the need to come together to brainstorm and find ways to create jobs in our great state.
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