Gee! CNN is now a patient advocate ..

[SoCalDem]

They have a new column starting today.. The CNNies are cheerfully advising people to send them emails so they can send them to insurance companies..

and they also advise us to fight fight fight, for our rights, but "be nice"..

I wonder what advice they have for people who are so damned sick, they have little energy to sit around writing letters and playing phone-robot tag all day long...just to beg some faceless voice on the other end of the line, to please pay their medical bills..

I know this is in response to SICKO emails we (and others) have sent to them..

But they still have it wrong. They are still telling us that WE have to prove to the insurance company that we are worthy of getting what we paid for.:grr:

[aquart]

1. Yep.

[Unreconstructed Lib]

2. It's all about market share, which is why this is a cynical move on CNN's part.

But it does seem to indicate that Sicko has hit quite a nerve. Hopefully, the broadcast networks will follow suit. Popular will has to precede change and, toward that end, this issue needs to be embedded in the forefront of American consciousness.

[Yael]

3. Its spaghetti on the wall

They don't know what to do or how to go about it, so they are tossing pasta onto the drywall to see what sticks.