Low Life Insurance Premiums

10 Comments

1. Kyle says (7.05.2012 at 10:51 am):

   

   Hey, Low Life Folks need love too! Not to mention insurance.

2. Elmer says (7.05.2012 at 11:20 am):

   

   i bet even a caveman can get insurance

3. Zachary says (7.05.2012 at 11:50 am):

   

   Even Low Lives need a bit of love.

4. Tom says (7.05.2012 at 12:30 pm):

   

   HA! This is brilliant.

5. Joshua says (7.05.2012 at 1:00 pm):

   

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FIq-toOANQ&feature=channel

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77qcMNX8ow

   Watch: Michael Moore on Larry King Live

6. Rodney says (7.05.2012 at 1:07 pm):

   

   The bill’s much shittier than that, & Big Insurance will quickly make it enormously worse just for spite.

   Chris Hedges is 100% right:

   The claims made by the proponents of the bill are the usual deceptive corporate advertising. The bill will not expand coverage to 30 million uninsured, especially since government subsidies will not take effect until 2014. Families who cannot pay the high premiums, deductibles and co-payments, estimated to be between 15 and 18 percent of most family incomes, will have to default, increasing the number of uninsured. Insurance companies can unilaterally raise prices without ceilings or caps and monopolize local markets to shut out competitors. The $1.055 trillion spent over the next decade will add new layers of bureaucratic red tape to what is an unmanageable and ultimately unsustainable system.

   …. The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care—$7,129 per capita—although 45.7 million Americans remain without health coverage and millions more are inadequately covered, meaning that if they get seriously ill they are not covered. Fourteen thousand Americans a day are now losing their health coverage. A report in the journal Health Affairs estimates that, if the system is left unchanged, one of every five dollars spent by Americans in 2017 will go to health coverage. Private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume 31 cents of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $400 billion per year, enough, Physicians for a National Health Plan points out, to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.

   …. This bill is not about fiscal responsibility or the common good. The bill is about increasing corporate profit at taxpayer expense. It is the health care industry’s version of the Wall Street bailout. It lavishes hundreds of billions in government subsidies on insurance and drug companies. The some 3,000 health care lobbyists in Washington, whose dirty little hands are all over the bill, have once more betrayed the American people for money. The bill is another example of why change will never come from within the Democratic Party. The party is owned and managed by corporations. The five largest private health insurers and their trade group, America’s Health Insurance Plans, spent more than $6 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2009. Pfizer, the world’s biggest drug maker, spent more than $9 million during the last quarter of 2008 and the first three months of 2009. The Washington Post reported that up to 30 members of Congress from both parties who hold key committee memberships have major investments in health care companies totaling between $11 million and $27 million. President Barack Obama’s director of health care policy, who will not discuss single payer as an option, has served on the boards of several health care corporations. And as salaries for most Americans have stagnated or declined during the past decade, health insurance profits have risen by 480 percent.

   FULL TEXT: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_health_care_hindenburg_h...

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7. Duane says (7.05.2012 at 1:55 pm):

   

   Thanks for the post Robin, ST paychecks had to disappear.

8. Darrell says (7.05.2012 at 2:18 pm):

   

   No need to worry…
   It seems as though I completely agree with Robin on this,
   so surely the end of the world is near.

9. Dustin says (7.05.2012 at 2:42 pm):

   

   Hopefully I won’t live much longer. Most likely I won’t be able to afford to.

10. John says (7.05.2012 at 2:44 pm):

    

    http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/25