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Don't forget that Sealover was a Gazette Hack in a past life….
Sealover's coverage is fair. It's Kane with the constant axe grinding. He interviews one person with a gripe and then tries to expand that anecdotal example into a complete condemnation of Obamacare. Very tiresome, hack "journalism" that is, for whatever agenda, being funded by the Post and, I believe, the Kaiser Foundation.
When are the rate increases going to kick in?
When do the insurance companies get subsidized by the taxpayers to ensure their profitability?
Happy, happy, joy, joy.
Ask your mommy if her insurance premiums ever went up — ever — for carrying the coverage on your worthless carcass . . .
According to Thom Hartmann, for profit health insurance is illegal, in Switzerland, home to greatest number per capita of millionaires.
Some are brainwashed into believing Corporations, must feast on the body politic, as it written into law Corps must make profit. Bring back annual renewal of those (charters) (of) Inc. ers & oinkers, & I’ll sign off on that.
I guess some wealthy countries think it macabre to profit from the sick and dying. (Happy Joy?) That there are always those willing to “take one for team” (red and clueless) even though they wouldn’t even let you in the front door of their gated, Country Club insulated life.
Isn't that where Romney does much of his banking?
The sad part is that these nine insurance companies didn't manage to spend even 80 (or 85) percent of their premiums on actually insuring their customers. 15 to 20 percent overhead is an amount Republicans would be (rightly) furious about if it were happening in government. Of course, the various government health insurance / health care programs all run at well under 10% overhead – by some estimates well under 5% – making the private insurance companies look like the greedy bastards they are, if only someone were to do real investigative reporting.
Have you ever considered that conservatives value profit, and the benefits of profit to our society? Only in the liberal world where all prosperity is scorned does that make sense. That's why liberals want to socialize everything, because you don't believe in the private enterprise that built America.
Let's celebrate profit, not demonize it.
So according to your way ot thinking, it's OK to charge the customers infinity and give them nothing, because that would maximize profit.
Which is exactly why health care shouldn't be provided by for-profit companies.
Everything you just said is bullshit.
A couple of quotes about labor, which, according to you and your friends, is secondary to (practically antithetical, in fact) to profit.
Liberals do not scorn prosperity. They understand that it is good and should be widespread, with the focus on "the Commonwealth", not the continued accumulation of the nations' wealth into ever fewer hands by the dominance of profit as an economic consideration.
Liberals believe very much in the private enterprise that you claim "built America". But they believe it should not be possible in this country for a handful of powerful, elite, aristocrats, through the manipulation of our political system, to evicerate the middle class and push the majority of Americans into poverty.
You don't actually know any "liberals", do you?
Capitalist societies often have socialized medical programs, like the UK, Canada, most of the industrialized world. Great outcomes, too – less infant mortality, comparable immunization rates, plagues and infectious diseases are quickly isolated, etc. I can put up links if you'll investigate them, but I suspect that you're aware of all this, anyway.
All Moddy is saying is that his definition of capitalism means that executives should get rewarded with multimillion dollar salaries and bonuses in exchange for delivering substandard products and services.
It worked really well for the auto industry, right?
Well, the socialist government bailed out the auto industry. In a true laissez-faire economy, natural selection would have taken its course and we'd all be driving Hyundais.
Or more likely walking — if both Chrysler and GM had gone bankrupt, taking about 3 million jobs with them — that would have been a Depression to remember!
Romney was probably kinda looking forward to picking over the rotting bones of the economy if he'd become president, sharing the spoils with his crony capitalists.
But, back on topic of the health care industry — unfortunately Mayo Clinic and Kaiser's coordination of care and advanced medical records systems are the exception, not the rule. And the thousands of private insurance companies and their byzantine rules and forms causing doctors and hospitals to game the system or give up entirely, are the major cause for our poorer outcomes and higher costs than "socialized" medicine can deliver.
Oh Moddy, if you think the ACA is socialism in action, both Newt Gingrich and I need to have a talk with you.
I have no problem with Profit. I just don't think it should be valued more than people.
I don't doubt that conservatives value profit. Nor do I doubt that they believe that profit works to society's benefit. In fact, I believe that many of today's conservatives have fallen down the rabbit hole into Ayn Rand Wonderland and have elevated profit above society believing that profit will lead to maximal societal benefit.
I also believe that many conservatives – yourself demonstrably included – don't have a proper perception of liberals and their views of capitalism. Shocking as this revelation may be to you, we aren't communists. And we don't all hold the same views, either, so quit trying to lump us into some kind of like-minded herd.
You sound like a Ferenghi. Or Gordon Gecko.
Pull the string and out comes more ignorant crap.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
That reference is to the limited, repeating talking points of AC, ala a Chatty Cathy doll (most here too young to remember those . . . not me and Bluecat however) not to something else equally as disgusting as AC.
AC = Moddy . . .
. . . they're interchangeably ignorant!
I too am old enough to get the reference. It was the phrasing.
Sorry divad.
I think most here get the reference. We're a pretty senior group
AC – Review your history. Health insurance rate increases have been an annual occurrence since decades before the ACA.
Moddy – Profit is great, but consider whether basic health insurance coverage should even be allowed to profit the health insurance countries. Please read the excellent book "The Healing of America" by T.R. Reid, where he states that even with the ACA that the US will continue to be the only developed nation that permits health insurance companies to make a profit on the basic package of coverage. Please also read the excellent book "Deadly Spin" by Wendell Potter for a detailed discussion of the medical loss ratio.
Everybody have a great day.
The point isn't that profit is bad. The point is that people should get what they pay for and profit should directly coorelate with performance. In a market with perfect information, there would be no need for the ACA or any medicare for all scheme. Because that's not the case, it's good to band together, through Government if need be it doesn't matter how, to avoid getting scammed i.e. paying someone to do something and they not do it.
In a world of perfect information we still have greedy people and opinionated ones.