Healthcare article today Boston Globe. Grit your teeth.

[yy4me]

As you read through the whole report by this staff writer, you get the the heart of the matter.

The insurance industry would be devastated. Thats it folks!

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/06/03/obama_urges_senate_democrats_to_settle_healthcare_issues/

[Voltaire]

1. The left needs to stay strong on this one

Bastards like Baucus and the Republicans make me want to, well never mind, but WE need to demand a public option. If it kills the insurance companies, so the fuck what.

You know, it pisses me off that they always talk to and about the left as if we were fucking children. I am personally smarter than 4/5ths of the sons of bitches that walk the halls of congress and I have a shitload more morals and love for my fellow man. BASTARDS! I am not interested in a compromise. Compromise means shit doesn't get done, and we need healthcare to get done and done right this time.

[Hannah Bell]

2. they don't mean the workers in the industry, either; it's already obvious from

the various bailouts & bankruptcies that the workers aren't their concern.

they means "the owners would be devasted".

[Voltaire]

3. Exact;ly

And I say screw the owners.

Obama will not be able to get us healthcare unless we make him and the congress do it.

[Hannah Bell]

4. mandatory insurance = windfall for the corps, & same incentive to deny care.

[fascisthunter]

6. yup... the same pigs who pay off politicians

money is NOT free speech and lobbying should be called what it is... bribery!

[EC]

5. I'm sure they could think up new products

the health insurance isn't where they make the money anyway...it's life insurance they really make all their $$$$

[iamtechus]

7. My heart bleeds

Ask them: what about the home builders and the construction workers?
What about tne autoworkers?
What about the auto dealers and the many thousands who work for them?

SHIT HAPPENS!

[Hepburn]

8. Disgusting! N/t

[pleah]

9. As far as I am concerned they can die a slow painful death,

just like a lot of the people that they denied coverage or priced out of their market.

[Festivito]

10. The insurance industry can go the way of auto companies.

Massive layoffs. Product lines cut, factories closed.

Talk about an industry that has "made mistakes." Fine, down they go.

People want to buy foreign cars, well, let's have them buy foreign health care as well. Put hospitals out of business.

Or, we could hire all those people who worked keeping people from getting health care and give them minimum wages to greet people at emergency rooms helping the sick INTO the hospitals.

[FiveGoodMen]

11. With apologies to the workers in that industry ...

Fuck the insurance companies.

Every American can't go on suffering with the industrialized world's worst health care just so some investors can get richer.

Fuck 'em.

The displacement of workers in those industries IS a real problem, but not so much that we should just go on shooting ourselves in the foot forever.