WHY INSURANCE COMPANIES SPEND $1.4 MILLION A DAY?
July 23rd, 2009 By RingTalk
San Francisco, CA- I have an HMO (Heath Maintenance Organization) that my employer pays about $450 a month for. With co-pays, it’s about $20 bucks to visit my personal physician. When I was self employed, I paid about $6,000 a year for what my job pays for now. The question I ask of you, not the sports fan, but the average American, why are insurance companies flooding the TV & radio airwaves daily with $1.4 million worth of ads knocking the President’s Health Care program? And yet at the same time, 14,000 people a day in the US are losing their health care.
US DOCTORS ARE TOPS BUT OUR CARE IS RANKED #18 OR 37!
Having traveled to 33 foreign countries, I needed medical attention once in Macau, and another time in Colombia. The south American nation known for it’s Coke trade, the Doctors treated me right away and without any charge on a Sunday. Don’t believe the bulls*it emanating from a group headed by a man that was so hooked on Vicodin (Demerol), that he had to have an audio device implanted in his ear he couldn’t hear today. The World Health Organization rates the US at #18 or 37, or far behind Colombia.
BOXING FANS, ASK YOURSELF THE QUESTION?
If the president’s health plan is so bad, why are the insurance companies, the bastards that they are, why are they spending $1.4 million a day to fight it? At the same time why then are 14,000 Americans a day losing their health care coverage?
POLITICAL BULL SHIT NOT NEEDED HERE
Don’t come at me with anything but answers to the two aforementioned questions.
Pedro Fernandez
Pedro – Government is notoriously wasteful and until it proves it can manage money the way we serfs have to they can keep their health care plan.
Gabe–Govt. is wasteful, unlike insurance companies, which keep careful track of every dollar they pick out of your pocket and squirrel away into their own.
Why are they fighting it? Because they want to keep their jobs.
…and then there is the irony of Bill “The Falafal Enthusiast” O’Reilly, Lou Dobbs et. at., how they pretend to look out for the little guy while shilling for Big Pharma and the health insurance industry…
being from Canada and having social health care I say this our system works well. It may not give every person the absolute best service but everybody gets treated well. Yes there are horror stories I m sure, but no one I know has had them. It costs tax payers a lot but everyone except a few polliticans and business men want to change it. Look what banks and insurance companies have done to everybody already all in the name of profit.
Who ranks these companies? The WBC?
A national health plan is essential for any civilized country. Being from England I am very used to one. It works and works well.
The benefits are obvious, firstly, it is not free, every working person pays into it. The premiums are low because acturaries base it on the overall health of the country. If you are out of work it is free. Secondly, you cannot be refused due to a precondition. (Something that happens quite frequently here), thirdly, prescriptions that can cost over $50-$100.00 here are less then $10.00 in the UK.
These prescription medications are manufactured by the same major companies, such as Pizer, Merck, etc, and they still make handsome profits.
Another point is that if you have a national plan, you are more likely to partake of health maintenance, therby cutting down on costs later on.
The average life span in western europe where NHP’s are a fact of life is some 5 years longer then the US, and so they must be doing something right.
As a self-employed man who has private health care – affordable private health care – I can say that my insurance provider is not 26 billion in the hole but the state I live in is. Private companies have an interest in staying solvent.
A decent private health care plan costs me (individual) about the same as satellite TV with HBO and Showtime. When times are tough I live without TV.
Much like boxing, Pedro, it’s all about greed. Sky is the limit! We should regulate pricing!!! The system goes that you can name your own price. If there are takers, good for you. If no takers, lower down your price and improve your services. Unfortunately, there will always be takers and that is the problem. I guess people should just get together solidly and if they don’t like a system, they should act as one full force to reckon with. That’s almost impossible to do, but with the advent of the internet and the cooperation of all, it can be achievable (in paper at least). Greed destroys everything, from a $5 million NASA toilet, to $1,000 screw… They’re really screwing us!
The problem is the very powerful med. insurance lobbies. They want to keep things just the way they are. And the GOP is in their pockets. They don’t care about the 40 million Americans that have no health coverage.
If Obama can get a health care plan passed it will go down in our history as one of our great accomplishments, comparable with the passing Social Security.
The biggest problem is the GOP who also fought Social Security back in the old days.