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liberaldemocrat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-30-07 05:53 AM
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Will universal health care destroy the health insurance industry?
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Edited on Sun Sep-30-07 05:59 AM by liberaldemocrat7
The health insurance industry appears quite capable of destroying itself and the middle class.

I will give you history. The banks and the stock market destroyed themselves in 1929 and the great depression occurred. The Democratic party does not destroy industries. The industries apear quite capable of destroying themselves and the middle class and the poor even as far back as 1929.

FDR and the Democratic party saved capitalism. FDR and the Democratic party saved the Banking industry and the stock market.

Today's health insurance industry appears quite capable of destroying the middle class. I'm seeing it right now. A friend of mine had to sell his home because he had cancer. He lost a lot of weight and never gained it back and still needs expensive treatment that meant that he could not afford to keep his home. He sold it in July 2007. He now waits in another state with a relative waiting while his name apears on a waiting list for inexpensive housing.

You DLC and corporatists and Hillary supporters would just ignore this problem.


"Hey Hey Hey DLC how many middle class homeowners have lost their homes today?"

So just as the importance of an industry what about the middle class that appears to get destroyed in 2007 because Hillary's supporters want the system to still get run by health insurance companies where you still have premiums, deductibles, copays which many middle class people might not afford if they get cancer or another devastating disease that costs them a lot of money over a long period of time.

The Health insurance industry has helped companies like Century 21 and Coldwell banker, and other real estate brokers, etc. with their insistance that the system stay as it appears now. I imagine the health insurance companies have helped morticians, coroners, funeral directors and cemeteries as well, financially.
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