Court Opinion

ID: 9647205
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:26:31.786495+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:46.542018
License: Public Domain

WELLIVER, Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent.
Recognizing the futility of writing, Lutsky v. Blue Cross Hosp. Serv., Inc., 695 S.W.2d 870, 877 (Welliver, J. dissenting), I simply state again that I cannot participate in any further rewriting of the Blue Cross-Blue Shield service contract and the resulting escalation of the cost of medical care and treatment.
I find it extremely difficult to say that we should approve this lawyer-plaintiff to advise the public, among other things, on the interpretation of contracts; and, that at the same time we must treat him and the lawyer association of which he is a member as an innocent member of the public who has been misled and deceived by that horrible monster Blue Cross, with whom they chose to contract.
Because he is one of ours, we give him free of charge that for which he testified he offered and that for which he was willing to pay extra.1

. Respondent testified:
Okay. And in it, it indicates what I said, that we’re no longer 100 percent covered, it's *257now a 20/80 program with a $300 deductible.
First thing I do is call the Bar Association and ask them about it, tell them about my situation, and they tell me to call William Prichard.
I call Mr. Prichard and talk to him about it, and I even advised him that since they had extended the program a month beforehand, and we had paid for that portion of the program, I would be willing to pay another month for that same program, at the higher rate, so we had continued coverage.
He says, "No, we’re not doing anything.
The plan is over with, that’s the end of it.” (Emphasis added).