The Truth Comes Out: Shameless Greed On Full Display

[sarahlee]

Today The New York Times reported in a big story on the front page of its Business Section that while seniors remain confused and unable to sign-up for the overly complex and confusing Medicare Part D, “for many big insurers, the new Medicare program is shaping up as a great opportunity.”

As if the image of big insurers laughing all the way to the bank while seniors are turned away at the pharmacy is not enough, the Times story continues, “If things play out the way some big insurers hope, the drug program could prove to be a feeder system into a much greater private presence in Medicare - a longstanding goal of the Bush administration.”

So, what is this all about? Money, of course.

According to Charles Boorady, a health care securities analyst at Citigroup, as quoted in the Times, with the further privatization of Medicare, “the insurance industry had a potential revenue opportunity of more than $450 billion a year or enough to almost double the revenue of the managed care industry."

Today’s Times story gives a rare unvarnished and uncensored look at the Administration’s and the for-profit health care industry vision of the future of health care in America.

Health care should be about patients, not profits. It is time to end health care for profit in this country, and make high-quality health care accessible and affordable to all.

http://www.kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=41653

The PNAC/GOP just isn't going to stop until everything is privatized.

[LuckyLib]

1. It's their foot in the door. We ain't seen nothing yet.

[sarahlee]

3. I fear

you are correct....

[Erika]

2. Bush gave the carriers a blank check

While forbidding us to buy drugs out of country. W is only a world corporate mouthpiece. Anyone who thinks he has American workers as a concern, is a total fool.

[LSK]

4. K & R

Everyone is arguing about immigration and this important stuff goes almost unnoticed.

[sarahlee]

5. I think immigration is immportant

But so is this. Thanks for the kick... I'm off to bed....

[magellan]

6. Of course it's about money.

Everything these bastards do is about money. More precisely, how to make our money theirs.

[sarahlee]

7. That might be a good bumper sticker

"The GOP - Making Our Money Theirs"