Fox News, Insurance Industry Say There’s No Health Care Crisis. Yeah, Right!

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/07/29/fox-news-insurance-industry-say-theres-no-health-care-crisis-yeah-right/

by Mike Hall, Jul 29, 2009

Maybe we’ve been ignoring the good news for these past several months as we’ve covered the debate on health care reform.

For example—there really isn’t a health care crisis and everybody is just gosh-darn happy with their insurance providers. Did we mention that the health insurance industry is doing such an above-board, honest job that it doesn’t need any new rules or regulations?

Somehow, we missed those stories, but when you consider the sources—Rush Limbaugh, the insurance group America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.), perhaps the loudest voice in the U.S. Senate screaming to scuttle health care reform—we didn’t miss much in the way of truthful news after all.

Click here, here and here for more on the dubious claims by Limbaugh, AHIP and Kyl.

In the interest of balance and fairness, here a few health care reform news nuggets of the truthful variety.

• Right-wing pundits are lying their ***** off about health care reform, says Joshua Holland, and he has the video to prove it. Holland notes that on several Fox News shows and other reactionary opinion shows, conservative blabbers are claming health care reform legislation will make private insurance illegal—in fact, one even claims reform advocates “will kill the private insurance companies.”

Did we all miss that meeting? Click here for more from Holland and the ludicrous lies from Fox, et al.

• Author David Sirota writes that it’s actually the super-rich who are looking for a kill shot. In a recent column, he details how the ultra-rich are trying to kill health reform. He writes that the wealthiest 1 percent—whose share of America’s total income is the highest it’s been since 1929 and their tax rates are the lowest they’ve faced in two decades—have deployed

an army to destroy an initiative that would tax the super-rich to help pay for health care.

Read Sirota’s entire column here.

FULL story at link. A few more links in story.

[ejpoeta]

1. of course THEY would say that.... there isn't a crisis for them... they are making

huge profits while their customers get less and less coverage. what's wrong with that!!

[liberal N proud]

2. That's Obvious - They are the only ones making money these days

:sarcasm:




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[wtbymark]

3. the Insurance industry is doing great, no problem there

affordable, accessable Health Care, on the other hand, is almost extinct.

The lower the medical outcome = the higher the prophit margin

Single-payer please

[azmouse]

4. Every RWer needs a good doctor

to help pull their head out of their ass.

[Wapsie B]

5. That's been the mantra of the conservatives for years now.

Every time there's discussion of really overhauling the health care system in this country you'll hear them parroting those words nonstop. I remember listening to one town forum with a repug state senator there. One person got up and starting chanting, " There’s No Health Care Crisis" continually for several minutes as if that somehow proved his point.