Read about this bullshit here:
Domestic violence is a "pre-existing condition"?
and here:
Big Insurance Defines Abuse as a Pre-Existing Condition
Reflect on what this means and take it to the logical conclusions. If you have fallen out of a tree and broken your arm, you are now uninsurable. If you were in a car accident and broke bones, you are now uninsurable.
This is madness.
Keep in mind that the "Public Option" is a Windfall for the Insurance Corporations. IT IS NOT REFORM.
Reform means the end of insurance.
Insurance is the PROBLEM.
Say no to this latest bailout scam!
Call your representatives and demand support for HR 676.
Remember:
Single Payer (Medicare for all) HR 676 which has 93 sponsors is the solution, not massive profits for insurance companies due to mandatory buy ins as proposed by the so called "public option."
We need heathcare access, not access to insurance.
Health insurance should go the way of the buggy whip.
Heath insurance is the problem. More of it is not the solution.
Health insurance adds 15 to 30 percent to the cost of healthcare, but what value does it add?
Read the text of HR 676 which is more than what most Congressional Reps do before voting on bills. You will ask yourself, why is this not the bill being championed by the president and passed by those big majorities in both houses?
Call the switchboards and demand true reform. Demand HR 676.
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Keep doing what you're doing BBE and maybe the country will grow a brain.
Affordable insurance?
Bullshit.
Make health care affordable and there is no need for insurance.
Corporations are the de facto government in this country. Try reading about us in the European press and they think we have lost our minds and sold our souls. They are right.
Final exit is what is needed for the insurance corporations.
FUCK! I'm in total agreement, but is the corporate stranglehold already too tight? Yeah, it is, due to the ignorance of our average citizen. I admire the fight you're waging though BBE.
They can't base a preexisting condition on your relationships. I would be totally screwed, because even if I am no longer and never will be again in bad relationships, I have in the past.
Basing it on relationships there would be more then just the poor having problems getting insurance. Because domestic violence has no preference of race, financial status, or religion.
Great post
When I hear Republicans say, "This is just the first step on the road to socialized medicine," all I can think is, "I sure as hell hope so."
Most people want single-payer. Most doctors want single-payer. Why this is a problem is beyond me.
Insurance is not needed, care is needed. The folks in charge of this debate need to "ball-up" and get the entire insurance "industry" out of the fucking discussion. They MUST be denied a seat at the table.
There has never been any sweeping reform in this country without very large balls.....without true leadership.
I love Obama, but I'm not seeing it here. (Or with the agreement to continue the hateful "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. He needs to stand up to those homophobic old-school military leaders, and say to them, "YOU work for ME. Get over it."
President Obama can't do anything without bringing the DINOS (Democrats in name only) along. Sorry. The democratic party truly is a big tent, and the fairly right has to be brought in with the fairly left. Compromise is all we're going to get this time around. This is just the start of the eventual victory. This battle should be won so it can be built on in the next battle.
If indeed the country is wholly or partially controlled by big biz,then the President can only do so much. There is a lot of disappointment, but no democratically elected official can do more than he is doing by working out the best agreement that will pass a vote. Inch by inch, this elephant is getting eaten.
Quote heard in a women's shelter "If I'd shot him when I met him I'd have been out of jail by now."
I guess the silver lining is that this system is so fucked up that even Republicans will one day support reform. After all, no matter how much money they get, they can't win elections if all their voters are either CEO's of insurance companies or dead from lack of treatment.