A for profit "health" insurance system is dysfunctional, inefficient and corruptive

[Uncle Joe]

no matter how much lipstick you put on it.

[CBGLuthier]

1. Not to mention, immoral

[Uncle Joe]

4. Thank you, not to mention immoral.

[daleanime]

2. Actually it does it's job well....

it creates wealth not health.

[marmar]

3. Exactly, Uncle Joe.

Until that beast is slain, everything else is moot.

[gateley]

5. Agree. nt

[Uncle Joe]

8. Here's a nice little thread re: Wendell Potter talking about how the beast wants the law approved.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101485310

"Whistleblower: Insurance Industry Doesn't Want Affordable Care Act Repealed Wants Democrats Defeated"

It would be illogical for the industry not to want the law approved as it institutionlizes their industry into American Society and guarantees them a massive captive clientele, thereby strengthing their lobbying/bribing grip on any future Congress.

I do believe if this is approved by the SC, universal single payer or even a strong national public option will become all the more difficult to achieve.

[kentauros]

6. And that's why the people in power like it as it is.

So long as they get their cut, who cares about the rest of us...

[newspeak]

7. and I agree full heartedly

uncle joe!

[immoderate]

9. You got my vote.

I wonder if the president is aware of this...

--imm

[raouldukelives]

10. Yep. That's why investors & mutual fund managers love them.

Just like military contractor stocks. If the corporations profits are down just arrange to kill a few people and your golden again. I imagine a whole generation of investors smiling with joy when they see the amount at the bottom of their statements. Feeling warm & fuzzy knowing that medical insurers are working hard denying health care benefits to people so they can retire in comfort someday.

[RC]

11. How healthy can you afford to be when your health care is for profit?

When you get sick, you cut into the profits the insurance companies and the dividends of the stock holders.

Elsewhere, health care is a Human Right. Here health care is a Right of the Rich.