It’s still the Health Insurers that are screwing you. Remember?

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http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/its-still-the-health-insurers-that-are-screwing-you-remember/

" Lots of people are blaming ObamaCare for their health policy cancellations and premium increases. These people are either stupid or have no long-term memory functions. The health insurers have been screwing us and in some cases killing us, all so they can make obscene profits and live lives of luxury while we go bankrupt or worse. And they are still doing so. Note this well, Cranky Nation: the real enemy has not changed.

The reason policies are being cancelled and premiums jacked up is a business decision: to increase profits for the health insurance companies. It has nothing to do with Obama. Same with network limitations, co-pay increases, and the other impacts we are seeing. It is a way for the business to make money.

And that is what for-profit businesses do. They make money. They always have, and always will. In fact, that is the natural order of things.

Now, if the government ran the health care system, none of this would happen. You’d pay your taxes and get your health care, because governments don’t have to make a profit. In fact, they can’t. They are graded on how well or poorly they deliver services, not on how much money they make. So they will deliver better care. Look at every other industrial democracy if you don’t believe it.

But the same memory-challenged fools that are stupidly blaming Obama for raising their rates are in most cases also the same idiots who oppose national health care, so we should not be surprised when they say stupid s***. And we shouldn’t expect the media to report these stories accurately, or for the greedy motherf***ers who run for-profit health care companies to be honest.

But we SHOULD expect ourselves to remember that insurance companies have been f***ing us for many years now, and we should blame them first when they continue to f*** us. Otherwise, WE are the idiots, and deserve those painful, unhealthy reamings."

Just a bit more at the link.

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1. Single Payer, Universal Health Care

Our government is charged with providing for the general welfare of this country. How does the health of the people in this country, NOT be included in that general welfare? Really, some important and powerful people need to answer that question.

And this question: Why should your health and even your life be dependent on the bottom line of a for profit corporation? The ACA has not really removed the "Your Money or Your Life" operating slogan of the private insurance companies. They are still there and already are finding ways around the new rules.

Nothing short of Single Payer, Universal Health Care will actually bring our health care costs down. Get the private, for profit health insurance companies out of our lives, for longer, healthier, better lives! The Money we save will be our own.

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2. Just so. Profits and care delivery are inherently in conflict. nt