Please tell me again, wingnuts, how America has the best healthcare system in the world. Tell me again how private insurance allows us to walk into any clinic and be treated on demand.
And while the far-right is making up crazy phony-baloney arguments about how healthcare reform will kill old people, in reality this is happening:
An insurance company that initially refused to pay for a liver transplant for a 17-year-old Northridge girl who died in a hospital should face criminal charges and pay civil damages, an attorney for the girl's family said Friday.
Cigna HealthCare "literally, maliciously killed" Nataline Sarkisyan, attorney Mark Geragos told reporters in downtown Los Angeles.
Sarkisyan died at 5:50 p.m. Thursday after being pulled off life support at UCLA Medical Center.
But Cigna cares:
Friday, CIGNA released the following statement: "Our deepest sympathies are with Nataline's family. Their loss is immeasurable, and our thoughts and prayers are with them. We deeply hope that the outpouring of concern, care and love that are being expressed for Nataline's family help them at this time."
Best healthcare ever. They even write thoughtful condolence messages after they allow their customers to die after being denied treatment. Good people.
Let's say all things are equal and there are wait times and rationing in any system -- public or private. Which is less moral: the system with wait times and rationing due to the volume of patients in the system, or wait times and rationing due to maximizing corporate profits?