Corporate Criminals

Single Payer.It’s the only answer. These organized criminals must find a new racket. No one has a ‘right to make a profit’. Particularly when your profit is based on denying the very thing you claim to be providing.

I wish single payer could happen. At this point, the public option is going to be a hell of a fight.

Bob what is up with Daschle? He came out yesterday totally against the public option. I hate to think he is only an industry shill but sadly that seems to be the case…

When I was in an auto accident, the my auto insurance paid for my medical. But they didn’t like the pace at which I was recovering, and called me, saying they wanted an independent(but not as she was paid by them) medical evaluation. And that until that happened, I should stop all treatment as they may not pay for it. Luckily my medical provider told me that was against the law, they couldn’t deny payment before the 2nd evaluation was done. They flat out lied to me. Now this is auto medical, not regular, but its the same principle. They want to take our money, but if you need something, they do whatever they can to minimize the payout, or cut you off altogether

I just had friends visiting me from Germany. They were laughing as my wife described what she went through to get our insurance to cover just some of my son’s autism therapy. It took months and months of phone calls, waiting on hold, filling out forms, getting our therapists to do the same, mailing them in, faxing them, never hearing back, finally getting a hold of them only to find out they never received our forms, doing the whole thing over again, meanwhile we’re paying out of pocket and going massively into debt.Our German friends said, oh in Germany, everyone has a card. You go to any doctor you want, you pay $10 no matter what. Simple as that.Yeah, why would Americans want anything so convenient? Why would we want to be efficient like those socialist europeans when we could go through major hassles just to bankrupt ourselves while CEOs get rich so they can bribe our congresspeople to keep the status quo?

This reminds me of the time the Enron CEO told a Senate subcommittee that he didn’t know anything about accounting. A load of crap…These CEO’s don’t have to package their explanation of their decision rules in a way that is “acceptable” to the committee. They need time to make it not look like what it is. It is reverse-engineered decision making based on profits, pure and simple.These guys told the truth, though. They will do whatever they can, within the law, to produce profits for their shareholders. If they said that they considered fairness or social good in their corporate strategy they would be immediately fired for failure to work in the best interest of the shareholders.There are no surprises here. The question is what Congress is going to do about it.As Jon Steward said last night, no government entity can be worse to deal with than insurance companies. At least the government would operate under the pretense of helping the sick rather than making a profit off them.

I wonder how many people have died because of lack of medical coverage. I bet its more than every terrorists attack on this country for the last 50 years combined.