Here is something for you to watch first, readers: Sicko
"Health insurers lay out a path to universal care; Group calls for public-private partnership" by Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | December 4, 2008
WASHINGTON - Leaders of the nation's largest health insurance industry lobbying group yesterday announced a series of proposals they said would help achieve universal coverage, control costs, and improve the quality of care.
I already don't like it.
"The heart of our proposal is a public-private partnership that builds on the employer-based coverage that 170 million Americans rely on today," said James Roosevelt, Jr., the president and chief executive of Tufts Health Plan. "We have laid out a workable, realistic path to universal coverage. . . . We want to make sure no one falls through the cracks of our healthcare system because of age, health status, or income."
What, after FIGHTING IT ALL THIS TIME? What, the PROFITS HURTING or do you guys just see GOVERNMENT TEAT to be SUCKED?
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The ideas hinge on a proposal the lobbying group put forward last month: Insurers would agree to stop denying coverage to people because of preexisting conditions as long as all individuals were required by law to buy insurance. That would prevent people from buying insurance only when they need it and force younger and healthier people to share the cost of care for older and sicker people....
First of all, the idea that EVERYONE should HAVE TO SIGN UP is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!! And this CONFIRMS what I THOUGHT about helath care corps and their PROFITS!!!!
Oh, yeah, we have TRILLIONS for WARS and BANKS, but YOU GOTTA PAY for HEALTH CARE, Amurkns!!!!
Health Care for America Now, a coalition of mostly left-leaning organizations, including the liberal group MoveOn, immediately issued a statement criticizing the insurers, saying their plan would still allow insurance companies to charge older and sicker people huge premiums and would do nothing to cap executive salaries.
Oh, so the LET-LIBERALS are even AGAINST this PLANNED TAXPAYER GIVEAWAY (as if they don't get enough already) to BIG PHARMA!!!!!
But a spokesman for US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, whose staff has been meeting with the insurers and others to develop a reform initiatives, responded positively....
Look, I know the guy is sick; however, this is the "LIBERAL LION" of the Senate? As with the immigration issue, Ted has proved he is a GLOBALIST CONVERT through and through -- to the embarrassment of his fallen brothers!
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Of course, regardless of what the American people want, we are going to have this monstrous health care plan foisted on us:
"Goodbye, Harry and Louise
.... The insurance industry's unwillingness to cover everyone has always been a great hurdle to reform.
But NOW they are FOR IT, huh? For the REASONS I STATED ABOVE, folks! $$$$$$!
The industry has resisted any requirement from government that it cover everyone for fear that only the sick would enroll in the new plans, driving up the cost of premiums for all. With an individual mandate, the companies are assured they will also have healthy customers buying policies - because they have to.
They will also be ASSURED of a REVENUE STREAM for PROFIT!!!!
The individual mandate is one of the pillars of the Massachusetts health reform law.
Oh, NO!!! You do NOT WANT THAT, AmeriKa!!!!!
See Why the Nation Doesn't Need Massachusetts Health Care and Massachusetts Health Care Takes a Seat on the S***ter.
That law has worked because its designers wisely allowed narrow exemptions for those too rich to qualify for a state-subsidized plan and too poor to buy a commercial one. The designers also came up with a simple enforcement device: Those who fail to buy coverage would be penalized on their tax return. To keep employers from dropping coverage, the Massachusetts law exacts a modest fee from those with more than 10 workers who fail to provide a minimum level of insurance....
They KEPT the PENALTIES but WAIVED the BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS!!!
Just thought you should know that, readers.
"Finally," Boston Globe? We have been DEMANDING IT for 50+ years!!!!!!!!
It has been BLOCKED thanks to the likes of YOU and THOSE YOU WORK FOR!!!!!!
How about that ELITIST INSULT, 'eh, Amurkns?
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Btw , if it AIN'T SINGLE-PAYER like Canada, England, or France, I DON'T WANT IT!
