A memo to the health insurance companies...fuck you &your profits

[debbierlus]

Apparently, we are suppossed to create our healthcare system with the competitiveness and profit margain of the private sector insurane companies as top priorities. Lots of whining from the industry and their congressional stooges...hell, even Pelosi wants to make sure that the health insurance companies are able to stay in the game with an even playing field.

Excuse me? Since when did our health become a commodity to be subject to the laws of capitalism instead of a basic human right?

Attention bought corporate political stooges...we are human beings and our life and sickness and wellness trump your greed and profit. You will fall. You provide nothing and cause suffering and death. You bankrupt families while taking the monies from denying care for gain and profit sharing.

No more. My wish is for your demise. That the American people extricate this huge leech that is breaking families and individuals across the land.

[Bluzmann57]

1. Recommended

And HEAR HEAR!
Edited for awful typing. But the sentiment is the same.

[SharonAnn]

21. We don't need health insurance. We need affordable health care. Maybe insurance is not the way.

[bigjohn16]

2. Greed is still good in the US. nt

[quidam56]

29. We must have health care reform this year,

In East Tennessee and southwest Virginia, I have seen what is deemed, defended and supported as "the acceptable standards of health care" http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=62 Clearly PROFIT CARE is more important than PATIENT CARE. How many more will die thanks to the greed and mislead health care system we have now.

[DailyGrind51]

47. Greed is "God" in the U.S., and capitalism is its "state religion".

[WonderGrunion]

3. K&R

If anyone truly believes in Corporate Personage, then I say that health insurance companies are guilty of crimes warranting the death penalty.

[waiting for hope]

4. Here's a good PBS special on

Health Care in other countries - worth the watch.

http://www.pbs.org/video/video/1050712790/subject/957383245

[BadgerKid]

5. +1 for title alone. n/t

[pleah]

6. K&R

[Hissyspit]

7. .

[PretzelWarrior]

K&R. NOw go call your senators and congress person

[PretzelWarrior]

8. K&R. NOw go call your senators and congress person

[MasonJar]

9. According to Mitch McConnell, my "moranic" senator, the GOPers

will not support a public option because it will hurt the industry. Can he possibly know how illegitimate that argument is or is he just beyond stupid?

[Enthusiast]

15. K&R, McConnell, Mr. Repulsive. nt

[vaberella]

10. Uh...Capitalist world..everything is a commodity, even your soul. n/t

[kenny blankenship]

45. Yeah you said it! Capitalist World. Except in Communist Hell-Holes like Canada

Great Britain, France, Italy...
...Sweden, Norway...

So WHAT if they live longer than we do!
So what if poor people drop like flies in America. There's an old saying some librul elites have clearly forgotten which goes like It's better to die early of a preventable disease on your feet than it is learn on your knees from other people's experiences. More or less that's the gist of it.

There's an inherent dignity in dying young of a curable illness with a long record of steep payments to Aetna behind you to memorialize your life. You enter the database unspoiled by Socialism. It's like a beautiful but tragic arc. Liberals just don't get that.

[avaistheone1]

48. Survey says people are happier in those hell holes.

Evidently take care of the people's needs makes people happy.

Who would have thunk?

[NanceGreggs]

11. Oh, yeah!!!

:applause:

:kick: & REC'D!!!

[Dragonfli]

12. K&R

[jannyk]

13. k&r!!!!!

[Enthusiast]

14. K&R

As if I don't hate the insurance industry enough already.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

16. Death to the 'Huge leech"! Great visual! n/t

[patriotvoice]

17. Now, put teeth to your rant: Cancel your health insurance.

The only way to ensure their demise is for enough of us to stop buying their "product".

If you have already, bravo and welcome to the club. We're pleased to have you. If I can personally help in any way, contact me. To everyone else, do the same.

[teewrex]

23. Gee, I would love to cancel my health insurance but I have cancer

and there is no way I can afford the treatments without insurance. I pay $1800.00 per month for insurance for my family but it is still cheaper than paying for cancer treatment. If you want to see how totally fucked the system is, go through cancer and see what the doctors charge and then what the insurance company pays them. It is a total racket but it is still better than being uninsured when something like this happens. We need some serious reform so that people can afford health care and be covered even with debilitating pre-existing conditions.

[radhika]

40. I'm in the Same Boat - Frustrated and Stuck

Not cancer, but another expensive chronic condition that I can't afford to treat myself.

As an activist, we have that old tool called 'Boycotts' but in this case, the insurance cos don't want our kind anyway, so it's sort of self-defeating.

[patriotvoice]

44. The general and the humanitarian.

I empathize. I personally do not have cancer, but a beloved member of my family does, and it's destroyed his body, his spirit, and his bank account. Everything he's worked for over the last 60 years, wiped clean by medical "treatment." Sadness frequently paralyzes me.

But I know this: his coverage is a little more expensive because I don't play the insurance game, because I pay for all of my family's care out of pocket. I know that my desire to force the insurance companies to amend their ways by denying them business costs those who stay in more.

But I also know this: I would prefer death to participating in a system that deliberately places profit over humanity.

I may one day, perhaps very soon, die because of my conviction. I'm willing to do so. My family will get a sizable life insurance payout, so my death will have some benefit. But all that is me will become dust. I cannot ask that you do that, for your death would be immediate and probably painful. But conviction takes tough choices.

I hope that the ultimate sacrifice doesn't befall anyone. But as long as this insurance scam continues, expensive death will follow those who are in and expensive death will follow those who are out. My best hope remains that my continual demand for unified national health care for every citizen sways my politicians, who sway others, and so on, until it is a reality. The best I have, beside my conviction, is my hope.

[WinkyDink]

18. You mean human lives aren't the same as steel and automobiles?!

[RoccoR5955]

19. Damn right!

How the heck can anyone trust a company who makes its profits from denying people benefits?
It's insane to believe that insurance companies will do a good job in lowering the costs of health care.
Health care should be a right, not a privilege.

[Downtown Hound]

20. Health insurance companies kill thousands of Americans every year

The greatest source of domestic terrorism there is.

[katandmoon]

22. K&R!

[CL455W4R]

24. You should be angry but...

This is America. Everything is for sale here. And until people get off their fat apathetic asses and really put their "representatives" feet to the fire, nothing will change.

What really kills me though is that there isn't more support in congress for single payer. From a strictly political point of view it's amazing. Imagine as a congressperson, being able to put out an ad that says the following "HR 676 Would have provided healthcare coverage to all Americans. So and so voted against it. So and so hates America. Vote for other guy"

Hell if the dems pushed through single payer while they had a majority like this .. they would be safe in holding that majority for at least a decade afterwards. But oh well, I guess the pigfuckers need their campaign contributions.

[Kermitt Gribble]

25. I have the same wish... n/t

[howmad1]

26. So somebody explain to me:

....why there are three ads from health insurance companies at the bottom of these comments? I guess profits do come first; no matter which side of the fence you're on. This is hippocritically insane!

[bvar22]

27. K&R

:patriot:

[dave29]

28. Booyah.

.

[Pooka Fey]

30. huge KnR

[Wednesdays]

31. K&R

:kick:

[avaistheone1]

32. IT IS ILLEGAL IN OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES TO PROFIT FROM HEALTH INSURANCE.

Why are we letting the Democrats and Republicans continue to let the health insurance companies exploit us?

[slipslidingaway]

33. knr nt

[kestrel91316]

34. K&R. My persoal belief is that it is the height of immorality to seek to

profit from a service that YOU do not provide, and that you are in fact working hard to deny the delivery of.

KEEP CAPITALISM OUT OF OUR HEALTHCARE. LET ALL RECEIVE CARE!!!!!!

[onestepforward]

35. K&R

[nradisic]

36. Yeah! Fuck You!

Well said. I own a small business and provide health coverage for my employees. Dealing with the insurance companies is always a stressful, expensive and time consuming issue. Enough already. Screw them and their "profits"....profiting off of someone's misery is bad karma...

[SoCalDem]

37. We need a national referendum FIRST.

National healthcare system for ALL with a SINGLE payer a la Medicare
(with optional "gap" insurance available for an extra fee to a private insurer)


or


Multiple individual corporate insurance plans like we currently have, tied to a job.



an answer to those two questions should be the guideline BEFORE we go any further.

and the people should DEMAND a signed pledge from any and all future candidates on this one litmus test.

This is an issue that is truly life & death...and hits every single household, REGARDLESS of any other "issues" you espouse or loathe.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

38. Universal Healthcare is my first priority. ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE.

And guess what? I can afford health care (which I have)... and I am relatively young with no health problems or diseases.

But what about my future? Or what about those who CAN'T afford health care?


Nobody in the USA should worry about their healthcare. It's disgusting.



It's a right when our country is so wealthy.

[bread_and_roses]

39. Well I can K & R with enthusiasm

However, I begin to doubt we'll ever get anything like real reform untill we have public financing of campaigns - something "our" Representatives on both side of the isle have no stomach for, since it would mean they'd actually have to serve the people.

But a big R nonetheless. The insurance companies and pharma are Vampires.

[bluethruandthru]

41. It's time to wake up this country to the scourge that is Health Insurance!

We need to educate friends, neighbors, write letters to the editor and above all email, call and fax our President and our congress people. We need our elected officials to quit worrying about the profits of the health insurance industry...and, yes, the jobs of many of those employed in that industry. ..and start putting the health CARE of the American people first.
For GOPers and Dems who express any concern whatsoever about the profits or competitiveness of insurance companies...they should be handed their asses in the next election.

[WestIndianArchie]

42. K&R

Your post is right on the money.....I would like to see the insurance company execs stand trial for the suffering and deaths they have caused......

[tabbycat31]

43. read the book "Critical Condition"

[jesus_of_suburbia]

46. I'm sorry it's too late to recommend this thread, but I'll definitely kick it!

In a country as rich as ours, we need healthcare for ALL.

PERIOD.


END OF DISCUSSION.