I had not heard that under this "reform" bill the penalty for insurance companies denying a person coverage is only a fine of a hundred dollars per day. While a hundred dollars per day is a large sum for most Americans, it is carpet dust for insurance corporations. What is even more insideous is that insurance corporations stand to make money by paying the fine.
At 3:32 in the video Moore makes this point. He says that for a year the fine would only total $36,500 which is a big savings over for example paying for a 100k operation. When doing the wrong thing has you coming out ahead $62,500 per person yearly, there isn't much incentive for corporations to do the right thing. The true solution is removing profit from healthcare.
To those who preach incrementalism and will comment that we should be happy with what little improvement this bill offers, you are like a beaten dog who rejoices in being slapped instead of punched.
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The clip is from tonight's Countdown on MSNBC.
Human rights have fallen far and been crushed most recently by NAFTA, and after the whole of the Bush administration, and was greased by this congress and the weakness of The Current President. It has no where to go but down because of the avarice and cowardice of this congress. Only a miracle can save blending 300 million Americans into Medicare from birth to death.
In my opinion any and every necessity of life, must, if this nation, this world is to survive, be NATIONALIZED. Medical Care, Water, Fuel, Drug makers, Certain basic Foods production, prisons and more, an Greed Avarice must be criminalized, lobbying must be made a capital crime, and men must learn to subjugate greed, or Homo sapien sapiens wil become extinct, so much the better for the rest of the planet.
Greed. It is all about greed, the new altar we all need to aspire to worship at.
Now is the time we will all pay the piper. With our very lives.
I don't disagree, either. The whole "incrementalist" approach is just shifting the blame to the next administration - nothing more. I have a better idea - let's do it RIGHT, and do it RIGHT NOW.
This is why I am all for term limits for Congress, and a ban on lobbying completely.
Rated.
Hyperbole like that just diminishes any point you may have. Anyone who has a differing opinion is 'a beaten dog who rejoices in being slapped instead of punched.' Get over yourself. You need a serious dose of reality.
Bill S. is right. Term limits and no lobbyists. Until then, get enjoy your Gremlin.
Read this brilliant piece from when Gore was running for president:
And Now for the Other Republican Convention
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/and-now-for-the-other-republican-convention