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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them in doing, closing a perceived loophole that allowed a person who instructed someone else to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally.[1] RICO was enacted by section 901(a) of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (Pub.L. 91–452 , 84 Stat. 922 , enacted October 15, 1970), and is codified at 18 U.S.C. ch. 96 as 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 –1968 . G. Robert Blakey, an adviser to the United States Senate Government Operations Committee, drafted the law under the close supervision of the committee's chairman, Senator John Little McClellan. It was enacted as Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, and signed into law by Richard M. Nixon. While its original use in the 1970s was to prosecute the Mafia as well as others who were actively engaged in organized crime, its later application has been more widespread....
Because of pending litigation and/or criminal charges the name of this company [a major health insurance company] will be kept anonymous.
originally posted by: syrinx high priest
a reply to: AlienView
do you have the EOB ?
originally posted by: syrinx high priest
a reply to: AlienView
a major carrier is not a "medical group". you mentioned there were no premiums. this sounds like a buying group or discount membership plan
there are only about 5 major carriers left, and none of them are known as "medical groups"
originally posted by: intrptr
We can't prosecute them, they are 'required by law'.
We have this blank spot, used to be called protection rackets back in the day. They would come round your shop and threaten to break something then offer to protect you in the future if you pay a little… or else.
Nowadays that extortion racket is legal. If you drive your car uninsured, they take it.
Haven't done anything 'wrong', just didn't pay the protection money.
originally posted by: syrinx high priest
your example of Rx is not sound. In a vast majority of cases you pay a lot less. ALWAYS BUY GENERIC Rx. In some cases the generics are made at the same factory as the brand ! research the heck out of your scripts, you can get a "value card" at a lot of pharmacies and pay less. You can get the manufacturer to send you coupons, you can save every third copay by getting mail order etc etc etc