Will you TRUST the health insurance companies

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

IF THE HEALTH CARE BILL PASSES?

[Warpy]

1. Sure, just as far as I can throw a grand piano by one leg.

Y'all do remember I have rheumatoid arthritis and a busted bone in my spine, right?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Hell no.

[RKP5637]

3. It's highly doubtful I will trust them as none has any leverage to keep them

honest and under control IMO. I also wanted a strong public option.

[kenny blankenship]

4. No, and I won't trust the govt. to regulate them either

Big players like banks and insurance companies ALWAYS get the better of their regulatory overseers. They have too much money and hire too much legal talent to fail at it over the long run. In this case, the inmates will be in charge of their warders from day one. In the first place they've already shown they can buy off Presidents and Senators. In the second place they will demand "representation" on whatever board is supposed to oversee them -and they'll get it. Staff and elected officials on the various committees with oversight responsibility will cycle through the insurance industry through a revolving door, like the way defense contractors "share" a personnel base with the Pentagon and the Congressional committees that oversee defense appropriations. Conflicts of interest will be so endemic, they won't be conflicts at all.

You will not "finesse" these people. You can either face up to the problems of our system, and the people who cause them - and put them down like the gangsters they are. Or you will be ruled by them.

[enlightenment]

5. You need a 'sputter and laugh hysterically'

option.

'No' just doesn't quite cut it . . .

[daleanime]

6. Not just no....

Hell no, not sure about trusting elected officials any more either.

[subterranean]

7. No. I won't trust them if the bill doesn't pass, either.

[YOY]

8. No and tag in health care providers and big pharma on the don't trust list.

All three of them are bastards to varying degrees in this sorid tale.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

9. Who the hell voted Yes????

2 yes votes (as of this post), and I can't figure out how anyone could trust these slime balls. They don't give two shits about the health of consumers.

[Denver Dave]

10. Collection of Health Care Stories

If helped pull together a collection of health care stories, most involve interactions with health insurance companies:
http://www.hctalk.com/viewforum.php?f=40

Somehow, I'm having a hard time with being "mandated" to buy health insurance from for-profit companies. I hope HR 4789 - The Public Option Act, with 81 Congressional sponsors (including Grayson) and over 37.000 signers on the petition as of today gets to see daylight.
www.WeWantMedicare.org

Perhaps you know some people that may be interested in HR 4789? Can you let them know before Sunday (expected vote on the main health care bill).

Thanks.