This morning on Pacifica radio a caller told her story about the plight of those without health insurance. Because of pre-existing conditions insurance for her family of 4 would cost a whopping $3200.00 per year with a $12,000. deductible, which means little very insurance coverage. She, like many folks, cannot afford it. When her 10 year old daughter badly sprained her arm, the trip to the ER and treatment came to between $1500.-$2000. This is beyond ridiculous.
This is why I have such contempt for the self-serving shills like the teabagger nut job below. They are doing all they can to make the lives of the woman who called Pacifica and others more desperate than they already are.
When lawmakers oppose transformational health care reform or lie about it by calling it a "government run program" that will create death panels and impose tax-payer funded abortions, they show cruel contempt for many of their constituents. These lawmakers are especially heartless toward those who are suffering from lack of decent health care. And those who will go bankrupt in attempt to get well. Politicians who rail against health care reform are most likely shilling for the insurance companies.
Anti-reform politicians prove that they approve of the insurance company death panels that do indeed exist, as we can see below.
To learn who is contributing to your U.S. elected officials, go to OpenSecrets.org.
During her career, Senator Kay Bailey "government take-over" Hutchison received $937,340 from the health professional industry. She has received $257,849 from health care professionls this year alone. My U.S. House Rep. (TX-7 Houston) John Culberson received $10,600 this year from Pharma and Health Professional groups.
A for-profit health care system run by monopolies with no competition is wrong. It is immoral, un-American and undemocratic. For some, it is also a death sentence.
The evils of unfettered, unbridled, for-profit health care providers.
In a story posted on Raw Story.com, a retired health insurance executive, with twenty years experience with Cigna, testified in a U.S. Senate hearing that insurance companies willfully confuse customers and get rid of those who are sick.
"[T]hey confuse their customers and dump the sick, all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors," former Cigna senior executive Wendell Potter told senators at a hearing on health insurance Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Dr. Steve B over at Daily Kos also has a posting on this issue.
Once again Trudy Lieberman has a great story, not only about how the health insurance industry really works, but also how its PR campaigns work and how they count on lazy journalists.
The pieces posted above give us the industry's working formula to maximize its profits by ditching some customers and denying coverage to others.
The industry's ultimate goal: Money: Pleasing Wall St. investors.
Core ideology: Money: The free market works.
How to achieve the goal:
Confuse clients
Dump the sick
Depend on lazy journalists
Count on Congress members who are aligned with the industry and who believe a voodoo free market economy can work for health care.
The evils of unfettered, unbridled, for-profit health care providers.
In a story posted on Raw Story.com, a retired health insurance executive, with twenty years experience with Cigna, testified in a U.S. Senate hearing that insurance companies willfully confuse customers and get rid of those who are sick.
"[T]hey confuse their customers and dump the sick, all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors," former Cigna senior executive Wendell Potter told senators at a hearing on health insurance Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Dr. Steve B over at Daily Kos also has a posting on this issue.
Once again Trudy Lieberman has a great story, not only about how the health insurance industry really works, but also how its PR campaigns work and how they count on lazy journalists.
The pieces posted above give us the industry's working formula to maximize its profits by ditching some customers and denying coverage to others.
The industry's ultimate goal: Money: Pleasing Wall St. investors.
Core ideology: Money: The free market works.
How to achieve the goal:
Confuse clients
Dump the sick
Depend on lazy journalists
Count on Congress members who are aligned with the industry and who believe a voodoo free market economy can work for health care.
