Friends, these are some recent Comments on various articles and blogs from the New York Times, Daily Beast, to the wonderful Wendell Potter. I post these here for you to take phrases or thoughts or info to be arrows in your quiver re the healthcare debate.
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081509
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/obama-death-panel-argument-dishonest/health-care/?cid=cs:comments2#commentarea
Senator upChuck Ghastley is a slitherer. He *knows* that the insurance corporations operate under a "medical-loss-ratio" and that, my compatriots, really is a death panel. Wall Street considers *any* claim paid out to a sick person, a "medical loss." If your gigantic greedy insurance corporation has a ratio of paying out too many claims, it gets brutally punished by Wall Street. (Recently a 2% rise in claims-paid resulted in a 20% drop in the stock price. Google Wendell Potter, Cigna whistleblower.)
If you want to keep paying Aetna slitherer CEO Ron Williams' $24 million dollar annual compensation or slitherer United Wealth Care Corp Steve Hemsley's $102,741 dollar per hour compensation, please I beg you to do that. Be my bloody guest. I, thanks, would prefer a choice. I'd rather pay 4% administrative costs rather than 20%-24%. It's up to you. Let my choice be up to me. Hmmmm, sounds like liberty to me.
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2nd comment
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08collins.html?_r=1We all need to know that the Wall Street Orcs-in-Suits control your health non-care. Google Wendell Potter the ex Cigna big shot PR guy who's now a whistleblower (
http://prwatch.org/user/35267/track) & you'll see that people like CEO Ron Williams of Aetna making $24-million-dollars a year are not going to moderate quietly. Mr. Williams is the Rescind-And-Purge=Evil champion of the Universe.
There's RAPE -- Rescind-And-Purge=Evil. If you get sick, that Mr. Williams of Aetna got the Gigantic Bucks because he fomented a computer program to comb any claims for the slightest pretext for the insurance corporations to rescind the coverage you thought you had. It's enough to gag a maggot.
Re Purge, if you're a small business and have a modest group plan, if one of your employees actually gets sick and needs to interfere with pure unfettered bloodsucking of premiums, your small business will get a huge increase in premiums to purge or force you from their rolls.
The unspeakable medical-loss-ratio means that a health-scam corporation's stock is flayed by Wall Street for any health care they actually pay out to sick people. Any claims paid are a "medical-loss" -- they want them premiums for stockholders, not for patients. Incredibly, payment for patients is considered a "medical-loss" by the Vampire Capitalism of our current Wall Street.
My mind reels at the deep ugliness of the system. This is Bernie-Madoff-League scamming, done by the best confusion & legerdelying that fathomless Big Bucks can buy.
If you want to keep paying an average of $14 million dollar annual medical-industrial-complex CEO salaries, be my guest. I'd prefer the choice of a public option where the money goes to help me or you. Gee, what a novel idea. (Self-employed, I haven't had health coverage since 1979 -- 262,800 hours waiting in line . . .)
LBJ said, "I will fight for Medicare as long as I have breath in my body." Our current leaders need an injection of LBJ-Fight. Speak boldly. …
Friends, these are some recent Comments on various articles and blogs from the New York Times, Daily Beast, to the wonderful Wendell Potter. I post these here for you to take phrases or thoughts or info to be arrows in your quiver re the healthcare debate.
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081509
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/obama-death-panel-argument-dishonest/health-care/?cid=cs:comments2#commentarea
Senator upChuck Ghastley is a slitherer. He *knows* that the insurance corporations operate under a "medical-loss-ratio" and that, my compatriots, really is a death panel. Wall Street considers *any* claim paid out to a sick person, a "medical loss." If your gigantic greedy insurance corporation has a ratio of paying out too many claims, it gets brutally punished by Wall Street. (Recently a 2% rise in claims-paid resulted in a 20% drop in the stock price. Google Wendell Potter, Cigna whistleblower.)
If you want to keep paying Aetna slitherer CEO Ron Williams' $24 million dollar annual compensation or slitherer United Wealth Care Corp Steve Hemsley's $102,741 dollar per hour compensation, please I beg you to do that. Be my bloody guest. I, thanks, would prefer a choice. I'd rather pay 4% administrative costs rather than 20%-24%. It's up to you. Let my choice be up to me. Hmmmm, sounds like liberty to me.
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2nd comment
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08collins.html?_r=1We all need to know that the Wall Street Orcs-in-Suits control your health non-care. Google Wendell Potter the ex Cigna big shot PR guy who's now a whistleblower (
http://prwatch.org/user/35267/track) & you'll see that people like CEO Ron Williams of Aetna making $24-million-dollars a year are not going to moderate quietly. Mr. Williams is the Rescind-And-Purge=Evil champion of the Universe.
There's RAPE -- Rescind-And-Purge=Evil. If you get sick, that Mr. Williams of Aetna got the Gigantic Bucks because he fomented a computer program to comb any claims for the slightest pretext for the insurance corporations to rescind the coverage you thought you had. It's enough to gag a maggot.
Re Purge, if you're a small business and have a modest group plan, if one of your employees actually gets sick and needs to interfere with pure unfettered bloodsucking of premiums, your small business will get a huge increase in premiums to purge or force you from their rolls.
The unspeakable medical-loss-ratio means that a health-scam corporation's stock is flayed by Wall Street for any health care they actually pay out to sick people. Any claims paid are a "medical-loss" -- they want them premiums for stockholders, not for patients. Incredibly, payment for patients is considered a "medical-loss" by the Vampire Capitalism of our current Wall Street.
My mind reels at the deep ugliness of the system. This is Bernie-Madoff-League scamming, done by the best confusion & legerdelying that fathomless Big Bucks can buy.
If you want to keep paying an average of $14 million dollar annual medical-industrial-complex CEO salaries, be my guest. I'd prefer the choice of a public option where the money goes to help me or you. Gee, what a novel idea. (Self-employed, I haven't had health coverage since 1979 -- 262,800 hours waiting in line . . .)
LBJ said, "I will fight for Medicare as long as I have breath in my body." Our current leaders need an injection of LBJ-Fight. Speak boldly.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08collins.html?_r=1Joe Califano recalled this afternoon (08.07.09) that LBJ said,"I will fight for Medicare as long as I have breath in my body." We need this explicit passion from President Obama re the public option.
I'm amazed that people are so vehemently eager to have Wall Street between them and their doctor. The medical-industrial-complex insurance corporations are only rewarded for collecting your premiums and then *not* paying your claims. It's called medical-loss-ratio. If a health-scam corporation starts paying too great a ratio of medical losses (aka patient claims), its stock gets punished. (I learned this from the wonderful Wendell Potter, whistleblower, ex-Cigna PR chief.)
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email to David Sirota 080709
Dear Mr. Sirota,
Thanks for your town-brawl primer.
I hope you'll spread the word about
medical-loss-ratios, the odious detail that finally pushed me off the Sickened Cliff into a free fall of dumbfounded disgust.
I'm amazed that people in these town brawls are so violently eager to use their premiums to pay CEO Ron Williams of Aetna's $24-million-dollar annual compensation. I'm happy for them to do that, but I'd like the choice, the public option, not to buy the gold-rimmed luncheon plates on the Aetna jet.
I'm amazed that people are so vehemently eager to have Wall Street between them and their doctor. The medical-industrial-complex insurance corporations are only rewarded for collecting your premiums and then *not* paying your claims. It's called
medical-loss-ratio. If a health-scam corporation starts paying too great a ratio of medical losses (aka patient claims), its stock gets punished. (I learned this from the wonderful
Wendell Potter, whistleblower, ex-Cigna PR chief.)
I think if people knew more and weren't responding to fortune-cookie propaganda, there'd be no question that they'd demand a public option to at least slow the juggernaut of the built-in rapacious greed-for-profit of the current gold-rimmed-plates Let's Dupe the Sheeple arrangement.
According to Joe Califano, President Lyndon Johnson said, "I will fight for Medicare as long as I have breath in my body." We need this passion in the current Democrats.
Thanks again,
Wendy
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http://www.russfeingold.org/blog/a-thank-you-message-from-russ.htmlIn a sea of Profiles in Jellyfishism, you have always been a Profile in Courage. Progressives are grateful. I'm amazed that people in these town brawls are so violently eager to use their premiums to pay CEO Ron Williams of Aetna's $24 million dollar annual compensation. I'm happy for them to do that, but I'd like the choice, the public option, not to buy the gold-rimmed luncheon plates on the Aetna jet. I'm amazed that people are so vehemently eager to have Wall Street between them and their doctor. The medical-industrial-complex insurance corporations are only rewarded for collecting your premiums and then *not* paying your claims. It's called medical-loss-ratio. If a health-scam corporation starts paying too great a ratio of medical losses (aka patient claims), its stock gets punished. I think if people knew more and weren't responding to fortune-cookie propaganda, there'd be no question that they'd demand a public option to at least slow the juggernaut of the built-in rapacious greed-for-profit of the current gold-rimmed-plates Let's Dupe the Sheeple arrangement. President Lyndon Johnson said, "I will fight to my last breath for Medicare." We need this passion in the current Democrats.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/opinion/07krugman.htmlI'm amazed that people are so violently eager to use their premiums to pay CEO Ron Williams of Aetna's $24 million dollar annual compensation. I'm happy for them to do that, but I'd like the choice, the public option, not to buy the gold-rimmed plates on the Aetna jet.
I'm amazed that people are so violently eager to have Wall Street between them and their doctor. The medical-industrial-complex insurance corporations are only rewarded for collecting your premiums and then *not* paying your claims. It's called medical-loss-ratio. If a health-scam corporation starts paying too great a ratio of medical losses (patient claims), its stock gets punished.
I think if people knew more and weren't responding to fortune-cookie propaganda, there'd be no question that they'd demand a public option to at least slow the juggernaut of the built-in rapacious greed-for-profit of the current gold-rimmed-plates Let's Dupe the Sheeple arrangement.
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labman57 & periscope are near the bullseye. We all need to know that the Wall Street Orcs in Suits control your health non-care. Google Wendell Potter the ex Cigna big shot PR guy who's now a whistleblower (
http://prwatch.org/user/35267/track) & you'll see that people like Ron Williams of Aetna making $24 million dollars a year are not going to moderate quietly.
Note the odious medical-loss-ratio which means that a health corporation's stock is punished by Wall Street for any health care they pay out (aka medical-loss --they want them premiums for stockholders, not for patients. Payment to patients is considered a "medical-loss").
Then there's RAPE -- Rescind-And-Purge Evil. If you get sick, that Mr. Williams of Aetna got the Gigantic Bucks because he invented a computer program to comb any claims for the slightest pretext for the insurance corporations to rescind the coverage you thought you had.
Re Purge, if you're a small business and have a modest group plan, if one of your employees actually gets sick and needs to interfere with pure unfettered bloodsucking of premiums, your small business will get a huge increase in premiums to purge you from their rolls.
If you want to keep paying an average of $14 million dollar annual medical-industrial-complex CEO salaries, be my guest. I'd prefer the choice of a public option where the money goes to help me or you. Gee, what a novel idea. (Self-employed, I haven't had health coverage since 1979 -- 262,800 hours waiting in line . . .)
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