"Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more," read the HuffPost lead paragraph of Monday's story detailing the latest extortion threats of this disgraceful, thieving lot.
Since when have these thieves ever "played nice?"
They're the same crowd who sent busloads of drooling, misguided and uninformed flunkies out to town halls this summer to subvert democracy with their idiotic yammerings. It's the same racketeering industry that has attacked a good man, President Obama, ceaselessly since he began trying to keep his campaign promises about health care.
If the health insurance companies had been around during the Civil War, they would have sent goons out to heckle the Gettysburg Address. Goons with guns, probably.
For-profit health insurance companies are a national disgrace, and a uniquely American one.
They are also the most visible sign of the kind of rogue capitalism that has seen its high-water mark and exists nowhere else in the world today.
The insurance companies have overplayed their hand this time, one suspects. I wouldn't want to play poker against the Chicago pols now in the White House. The rapacious and desperate insurance companies will be sorry they pulled this latest stunt of making threats, even as predictable as they might be.
The other night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, a guy I truly respect and admire, did an hour-long Special Comment/rant about health care. His central thesis is that the health care debate, above all, is about death, forestalling it or allowing it.
But it's about more than that. It's also about pain and suffering. Not every untreated injury results in death. Just suffering. And pain, sometimes of the intractable variety. E.g., broken bones, migraine headaches, wounds that won't heal.
These won't necessarily kill people. They'll just make humans suffer needlessly. Especially those with "pre-existing decisions."
So what if the Senate Finance Committee votes Tuesday NOT to slam the greedy, heartless bastards from the insurance companies and begin to put them out of business, where they surely are relegated?. Didn't four other Congressional committees approve a public option?
Why should Max "No Headroom" Baucus' committee, whose members represent less than seven percent of the U.S. population, have the final say? Why should insurance whores from small states easily bought off with insurance-company blood money have the final word on any of this?
And why should anyone believe -- or heed -- a single word of what the treacherous, greedy bastards from the organized-crime insurance rackets have to say?
The health-insurance companies will soon enough be relegated not to the ashheap of history, but to its sewage-treatment facility.
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It's like we're trying to climb a mountain, and were calling the two-mile deep mine shaft we just dug progress.
If you don't participate in in the executive compensation plan of Pharma or an Insurer, or you are not a lobbyist or legislator, the starting point of this debate was a loss for you.
Everyone who has seriously looked into this situation knows that the only win for the People is single payor. The President, my congressman and senator have all told me through their spokesman that if they were starting from scratch, they would choose single payer. Well, if they say that, am I to believe that just extending Medicare for all at cost would be a more difficult legislative slog than the current patchwork of fails they're pushing on us?
Don't be confused EVERYTHING that isn't single payer resolves to dollars diverted from health to executive compensation and legislative coercion and payoffs.
May they burn in hell.
Why did you highlight that part? It most certainly was NOT the motive of the inusrance companies.
John McCain (R-AZ)- $2,885,602
Ben Nelson (D-NE)- $1,210,299
Max Baucus (D-MT)- $1,182,613
Arlen Specter (D-R-PA)- $1,037,205
Joe Lieberman (D-CT)- $1,035,302
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)- $928,007
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)- $888,724
Kent Conrad (D-ND)- $825,337
Jim Bunning (R-KY)- $793,999
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)- $664,057
Kit Bond (R-MO)- $644,571
Dick Shelby (R--AL)- $637,748
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) $862,462
Notice how many of these name are the loudest opponents of any reform at all?
Not all of our elected officials are in the pockets of the insurance lobby........
Wait till you see the so called Banking Reform, then it will be different leaders getting the biggest bribes..!
Pigs at the Trough, as Arianna calls it..!
there is today a health insurance bureaucrat between you and your doctor today.
health reform would eliminate death panels. health care reform would allow doctor and patient to make medical decisions.
"a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth"
glenn beck
information czar fox news
the view 5/20/09
"If the lie is big enough, and repeated often enough it becomes fact"
Joseph Goebbels 1933
Too bad HE and FOX are the very ones who keep repeating the lies.
Maybe this time we CAN stop this madness. It is time for NO MORE DEATH PANELS, NO MORE INSURANCE EXECUTIVES playing roulette with our health, hitting the jackpot when WE are DENIED the very care we have paid for.
We are not only working against the insurance companies, but an entrenched philosophy in Congress that they can't make big changes, and a Republican Party that will let American fail before seeing Obama succeed.
This is a big lift.
Call Congress.
We are now at the point California was after the conservatives had Enron plunder it, except they had their Wall Street, banking, and war profiteering minions plunder America.
The longer we have to wait, the more the insurance industry will screw everyone over. Denial of coverage for a "too fat" baby, a liver transplant (called "experimental"), denial if you have been raped or suffered domestic abuse, and on and on and on.....why are we not screaming mad?
Single payer is the only answer that ensures lower costs, better healthcare delivery, and universal healthcare. Or going all non-profit in primary healthcare financing, even if we keep insurance companies. For-profit insurance doesn't exist in any other advanced nation in the world, because it doesn't work. Switzerland even tried it but abandoned it when all it did was raise costs.