DISQUS

AMERICAblog: Sure, the insurance industry wants to hear from you. Sure.

  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    The insurance industry is big and evil.

    I'm afraid that's why Hillary's and Obama's and Edwards's plans all included them.

    They know it's near impossible to pass anything without at least their passive acquiesence.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    OT:

    Guess Lieberman is now an Enemy of Israel:

    Even more positive news from Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East: a new poll by Israel Radio shows, for perhaps the first time, Israelis preferring Obama to John McCain.

    When asked "who would you rather see elected as the next president of the United States," Obama bested John McCain by a 37-28 margin. While far from a decisive advantage -- 35 percent of Israelis chose "no preference" or some other answer -- the poll reflects a notably different state of affairs from previous surveys, which generally showed McCain with a large advantage over Obama.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/new-po...
  • LunaStick · 1 year ago
    This is similar to the Oil companies ad blitz in which they talk about the need to search for alternative energy sources and the steps they have been taking towards that goal. I've seen at least 3 different companies with such ads in recent weeks. Like the insurance companies, they are scared. They know opinions are turning against them and fear their precious profits are threatened.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    And let's not forget our ole friend "T. Boone Pickens". Now there is one heck of a man concerned with conservation, eh?

    LOLOLOLOL
  • LunaStick · 1 year ago
    My guess is that they know oil is on the decline as an energy source and these oilmen are trying to position themselves to be the only ones to research and implement new technologies. Pickens? Oh yeah, he's trustworthy....NOT!
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    Why sure! Heck, alternative energy is a huge and growing field as we have been trying to tell everyone for awhile now. But ole Boonie is hardly just trying to corner a market, he wants to make the Repubs the hero in this new era...count on it.
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    The insurance industry must get reigned in. There is absolutely no reason it should be a for-profit industry and that fundamental is going to have to change. I am not saying, however, that people shouldn't be able to have a good career in healthcare with good pay either. If anything most healthcare providers should be making more. What needs to be removed are the leeches trying to profit on the backs of patients AND healthcare providers like myself.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    I hear you and agree, but I don't see anyone in our collective future that will go up against the Insurance industry...they are far too powerful and big. Disappointing, because there was a time when I truly did believe that Obama might be that person, but at this point, I think not.

    : (
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Joining lobbyist firms to protect Big Insurance is akin to Lieberman joining John McCain. I don't see how any progressive Democrat could do it and still sleep at night. One has to have lost one's way, or soul, in order to make a move like that.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    The system we have was constructed by you toads that are complaining about it now. Go ahead, try to construct another system where you get something for nothing. Let's use the Cuban system; or, the old Russian system. No system is going to work which pays doctors less than veterinarians and plumbers.
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago
    The owners of all those skyscrapers in Hartford and Boston will fight to the death for the privilege of destroying the US for profit. Harry and Louise aren't going away. Ghouls are hard to kill.
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago
    Our resident dittohead has reached into his bag and pulled out the wrong talking point.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    ...as he always seems to do these days.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Polly, all you do is criticize. Have you ever had an original thought?
  • tduffy2 · 1 year ago
    No, I don't want reform. I just lost my job and got the paperwork to continue my healthcare, under COBRA. For me and a 15 year old son, who are healthy and have had no claims to speak of (minus the occasional Rx for antibiotics), my monthly premium would be: drum roll please..... $903.77.

    That's two weeks of unemployment benefits.

    Nah, the system works just fine.

    /snark off
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Listen, Bonebrain_in_CNJ; Let's say that the US gov. declared that gasoline was free, 100% subsidized, tomorrow. 250 million people would be lined up at the pumps tomorrow. Now, Bonehead, let's say that the US Gov declared that healthcare was free starting tomorrow.... any connectivity in your cranial menses?
  • LunaStick · 1 year ago
    Have you been drinking again?

    I've been to places where there is universal health care and guess what? They aren't lining up out the door ready to take advantage. Such a system isn't perfect (nothing is) but it is a hell of a lot better and CHEAPER than the system we got now. Go sober up will ya?
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Where have you been? To Canada, where they line up at the Dakota border to bring their life savings here for their kidney transplant? To England, where you have to have a certain"lifestyle" to get any care at all? Where have you been that people like the system?
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago
    you really are an irredeemable idiot. but i don't begrudge JA for keeping you around.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Hey, thanks, sorry for the "uber" analogy.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    Medicare for All. H.R. 676. Eliminate the middle man
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
  • Asterix · 1 year ago
    Don't ask me what I think of health insurance providers. I just got a notice in the mail today that my premium's going up 30% in September. And the local "not for profit" hospital just opened new digs that look more like a country club than a pesthouse--grand views, all private rooms, even a huge lobby with a fireplace and wood paneling.

    Guess I'll have to jump my deductible--again.
  • cwzilla · 1 year ago
    hey I got an idea why instead ofspending huge ammounts of PR start useing that money to pay your legitamate claimes we have to pay you an arm and a friggin leg and not to mention the deductable but after all that we still might not get the care we need...oh and u friggin wingnits what would you rather do pay a few hundred dollars more a year in taxes or a 50,000 75,000 or 100,000 dollar medical bill?? oh hell never mind asking them they have to wait till there rethug talking points till they have any though if thats what there callin it these days
  • jim_in_va · 4 months ago
    We need reform, but not the kind Obama is talking about. We need health insurance that is more like our auto insurance where people pay for their own. If the government takes over health care, they will start rationing health care just like some of the other more socialistic countries like Britain and Canada. If employers or the government want to provide funds or tax breaks to help pay for insurance, they can (sort of like a 401K with a rollover each year). I just don't want them ruining one of the only remaining working health care systems in the world.