Congress's Action on Healthcare!

[treesofmytime]

We are witnessing the great sellout of the American people on Health care!. Or perhaps, I should say, buyout of Congress by the Insurance Industry

Comments

[neverendingblue]

I agree and sign me up too!

self pay -- what a concept

[scottks]

For once, I agree with Howard Dean. They need to kill the bill and start all over. Except rather than go the single payer plan where we basically nationalize health care (already proven dismal in Canada and UK), we need to get insurance and government out of the picture except for maybe catastrophic insurance for major medical needs, and those who can't support themselves because of true disability. Once we are back to paying the doctor directly, prices will go down and options will increase.

Is it Always Better to Have Health Insurance?

[bnr4789]

When you ask a woman who was raped what her horrific experience was like, does she say, "You know when Insurance Comapanies increase the price of insurance and give us no benifits to go with it? THAT's what it was like."

Just saying. :)

[wickenden]

To a parent who has to watch their child die because she can't get the health coverage because of a pre-existing condition, to a person who can't get an operation because he can't afford it and can't afford health insurance the feeling of violation might be worthy of the language of analogy he's using here.

Moore's "Sicko", despite his histrionics, does a compelling job explaining that it's not just about a curmudgeon who doesn't want their rates going up. In fact, for those of us who want things changed there is a strong voice arguing for those of us who can afford it to pay more in taxes in order to help the weakest and poorest among us.

I don't think there is attempt to downplay the horrible crime of rape here. However, it has been overused a lot lately by folks like Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh in describing how Obama is hurting the rich. Now there's an inappropriate comparison.

[treesofmytime]

I, of course, did not mean to in ANY way, charge that there was any physical similarity between brn's description of rape and my looser view of the word. The word rape is much used in the manner in which I used it

[bnr4789]

Nowadays though the word is thrown around way too carelessly, and it becomes offensive to people, especially women, when others use it in a sentence that hasn't a thing to do with the word's actual meaning today.