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Supreme Court Health Care Reform: Without Mandate, Nightmare Awaits Insurers, Uninsured
I am for single payer universal health care, crazy lady. Medicare for all.
And if you want to ever again be addressed seriously or with respect by me, don't reframe my words and attribute positions to me that aren't mine. It's a nasty habit you have.
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Supreme Court Health Care Reform: Without Mandate, Nightmare Awaits Insurers, Uninsured
Obama took single payer (Medicare For All) off the table, because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison. He's preserving an anachronistic and failed insurance industry and employer-provided system for medical care. It's government-sanctioned racketeering.
Insurance adds NOTHING to the medical model. The insurance industry is the 'Don Fanucci' (Godfather, Part II -- "I don't want a lot...Just enough to wet my beak") of medical care, letting you get medical care only if you pay them a gratuity up front.
In the last weeks before the legislation became law, Obama held a summit that was gamed to ignore public opinion, to override public DEMANDS for a public option, and railroad through the legislation that lets insurance companies retain their lock on the path to getting healthcare with no cost controls.
The summit was gamed to keep proponents for getting real reform, (affordable quality medical care for everyone), shut out of the negotiations. Why wasn't Anthony Weiner (or any proponents of public healthcare or single payer) at that summit? Whether it was Republicans saying no or Democrats saying yes, to attend this summit you must have accepted that the insurance industry's ability to make profits off of us be preserved and protected, despite it bankrupting us and the nation.
Dylan Ratigan nailed it on a show he did right before Obama entered the last push to get legislation giving the insurance and pharmaceutical industries the keys to the Treasury no real restrictions, no cost controls, nothing that the insurance industry hasn't figured its way around. Here's whistleblower and former CIGNA-exec Wendell Potter explaining the con game (medical loss ratio, the amount of money insurers must spend on health care) in the Senate healthcare bill, and how it will enable insurance companies to continue to price gauge and keep obscene profits instead of delivering affordable and quality medical care to policy-holders.
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Supreme Court Health Care Reform: Without Mandate, Nightmare Awaits Insurers, Uninsured
Health insurance ≠ medical treatment.
People need medical care. Affordable, quality medical treatment. Nobody needs to have health insurance.
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Supreme Court Health Care Reform: Without Mandate, Nightmare Awaits Insurers, Uninsured
Facts about ACA:
Insurance is NOT medical treatment.
Having insurance does NOT mean being able to get affordable quality medical care. Mandating that everybody has to purchase health insurance so that a few million people will have insurance isn't the same thing as everyone being able to get affordable, quality medical treatment.
It doesn't even mean that everyone with health insurance is going to be able to get the affordable medical treatment. It doesn't mean that if you pay your insurance premiums, your insurance company is required to pay for all of your healthcare needs.
But that's the 'Bush-speak' that Obama's been getting away with.
Obama and Democrats have been playing with the language, no differently than Bush and Republicans do. Both parties are corporate stooges, protecting the profits of the 1% over the needs of the 99%.
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Supreme Court Health Care Reform: Without Mandate, Nightmare Awaits Insurers, Uninsured
What do you think a doctor's visit and antibiotics for a sinus infection would cost you without insurance?
What do you think that same doctor's visit and antibiotics would cost in deductibles and co-pays if you did have insurance?
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Supreme Court Health Care Reform: Without Mandate, Nightmare Awaits Insurers, Uninsured
The scare tactics of these headlines is really shameless exploitation on HP's part.
Having health insurance ≠ medical treatment.
Obama's healthcare legislation doesn't control costs and doesn't deliver medical treatment to everyone (not even those who think they're going to get it).
People who voted for Obama and Democrats voted to get affordable, quality medical treatment. That was NOT a vote to protect and further enrich the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Voters did NOT send Obama and Democrats into power to entrench the insurance industry as the gatekeepers to being able to get medical treatment. Voters did NOT send Obama and Democrats to Washington to continue tying insurance benefits to their employment.
Yet that is precisely what Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats did.
Meet The New 1%: - Healthcare CEOs replace bankers as America's best paid:
Pity Wall Street's bankers. Once the highest-paid bosses in the land, they are now also-rans. The real money is in healthcare and drugs, according to the latest survey of executive pay. One example is Joel Gemunder, CEO Omnicare, who had a total pay package in 2010 worth $98 million.
Obama's healthcare legislation is nothing more than a massive giveaway to the health insurance industry. It is one of the most corrupt pieces of legislation ever enacted by our government.
The health insurance industry provides no real service. All it does is take money out of the system. It's nothing more than a blood-sucking middleman.
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