Lack of Insurance Deadlier Than Terrorism

yeah so? Buy insurance.

hey dickhead, some people like my stepmom have had cancer and cannot qualify. She wants to buy insurance and can’t because she’s too big a risk. This health care bill will help her.The fact that you make such an offhand calloused comment shows you’re either a heartless asshole or just don’t understand how big a problem healthcare is in our country.

10,000 swine flu deaths? really?

@eljefejeff:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/health/11flu.html

Jonah gets the award for “Flaming Asshole of the Year” for 2009.All of his posts are juvenile.I really like this one from Bob . . .”Lack of insurance is something that’s truly scary. Terrorism is only conceptually scary.”So damn right on.

Hey, Jonah, fuck off and die. How do you like that calloused comment, you worthless piece of shit?In other news, yeah, 10,000 Swine Flu deaths. I actually know someone who’s sister died of Swine Flu. But in comparison with death from regular seasonal flu, it’s not as awful as we think.

Sorry but, I’m single and can’t afford insurance. It’s either a decent apartment and the bills that come with it or insurance and skipping something like…eating or having lights and gas in said apartment. Oh, and I don’t have a problem with a body scan. I know that many feel it’s an invasion of privacy but, I don’t mind. Or, you could just not fly. Or maybe it’s because I had just left the 22nd floor of the Trade Center in 1993 and I was on the escalator at the Trade Center in 2001 at exactly the same time I always came up the escalator, at 8:47am.

I say we invoke Cheney’s 1% Doctrine. If there’s a one percent chance that an insurance company may act in a way that results in the death of Americans, we should act preemptively to prevent that.Of course, if we apply the same principle to Dick Cheney himself…

Don’t worry, Mr.Barcelona is just showing us insight into the conservative mind. That it is easy to buy and maintain insurance, be damned the facts. That it is easy to go to war, be damned the facts. That it is easy to push a Republican Presidents failures unto the Democratic Presidents before and after him, be damned the facts.Or as FDR so wisely put it in this Youtube video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqe4aeublo

Damn right! Consider this, man lights nuts on fire and is taken to hospital at taxpayers expense!I’ll bet the dude that helped take him down gets a fucking bill in the mail.It’s just wrong, dead fucking wrong, that anyone in this country has to go without medical care!

This is funny you mention this. I was just saying the same thing a couple days ago. 45,000 people die from auto accidents. Yet we do not even bat an eye, when a family is wiped out because of an auto accident.

This post gets to the heart of the problem for me. You will be forced to buy expensive insurance, without cost controls on the insurers.The “coverage” you attain will come with deductibles and co-pays so high that many people can still be bankrupted.In essence, you’ll have extremely expensive insurance, increasing in cost each year (Anthem’s going for 18.5 percent here in Maine) for this level of protection: after you’ve exhausted all your savings, there may still be a considerable gap between your outlay at that point and your deductible. Ahh, peace of mind. Change we can believe in. Yes we can (as long as “we” = BigInsurance).As for the earlier post about cadillac plan taxes resulting in lower cost insurance and thus bending the cost curve…the cost curve doesn’t bend until insurers have to live with cost controls.

Blue Texan doesn’t say where the data comes from. CDC’s most recent cause-of-death data is from 2006. FBI murder data is still only as fresh as 2008. The point of the chart is an important one to make (and Nate Silver has produced crushing data on the tiny chance of being killed by a terrorist on an airplane), but it doesn’t help us when we appear to be fudging the numbers.