Friends, these are some recent Comments on various articles and blogs from the New York Times to the wonderful Wendell Potter. I post these here for you to take phrases or thoughts or info to be arrows in your quiver re the healthcare debate.
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2nd comment
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/
We
all need to know that the Wall Street Orcs-in-Suits control your health
non-care. Google Wendell Potter the ex Cigna big shot PR guy who's now
a whistleblower (http://prwatch.org/user/
& you'll see that people like CEO Ron Williams of Aetna making
$24-million-dollars a year are not going to moderate quietly. Mr.
Williams is the Rescind-And-Purge=Evil champion of the Universe.
There's RAPE — Rescind-And-Purge=Evil. If you get sick, that Mr.
Williams of Aetna got the Gigantic Bucks because he fomented a computer
program to comb any claims for the slightest pretext for the insurance
corporations to rescind the coverage you thought you had. It's enough
to gag a maggot.
Re Purge, if you're a small business and have a modest group plan,
if one of your employees actually gets sick and needs to interfere with
pure unfettered bloodsucking of premiums, your small business will get
a huge increase in premiums to purge or force you from their rolls.
The unspeakable medical-loss-ratio means that a health-scam
corporation's stock is flayed by Wall Street for any health care they
actually pay out to sick people. Any claims paid are a “medical-loss”
— they want them premiums for stockholders, not for patients.
Incredibly, payment for patients is considered a “medical-loss” by the
Vampire Capitalism of our current Wall Street.
My mind reels at the deep ugliness of the system. This is
Bernie-Madoff-League scamming, done by the best confusion &
legerdelying that fathomless Big Bucks can buy.
If you want to
keep paying an average of $14 million dollar annual
medical-industrial-complex CEO salaries, be my guest. I'd prefer the
choice of a public option where the money goes to help me or you. Gee,
what a novel idea. (Self-employed, I haven't had health coverage since
1979 — 262,800 hours waiting in line . . .)
LBJ said, “I will fight for Medicare as long as I have breath in my
body.” Our current leaders need an injection of LBJ-Fight. Speak boldly.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/
Joe Califano recalled this afternoon (08.07.09) that LBJ said,”I will
fight for Medicare as long as I have breath in my body.” We need this
explicit passion from President Obama re the public option.
I'm
amazed that people are so vehemently eager to have Wall Street between
them and their doctor. The medical-industrial-complex insurance
corporations are only rewarded for collecting your premiums and then
*not* paying your claims. It's called medical-loss-ratio. If a
health-scam corporation starts paying too great a ratio of medical
losses (aka patient claims), its stock gets punished. (I learned this
from the wonderful Wendell Potter, whistleblower, ex-Cigna PR chief.)
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email to David Sirota 080709
Dear Mr. Sirota,
Thanks for your town-brawl primer.
I hope you'll spread the word about medical-loss-ratios, the odious detail that finally pushed me off the Sickened Cliff into a free fall of dumbfounded disgust.
I'm amazed that people in these
town brawls are so violently eager to use their premiums to pay CEO Ron
Williams of Aetna's $24-million-dollar annual compensation. I'm happy
for them to do that, but I'd like the choice, the public option, not to
buy the gold-rimmed luncheon plates on the Aetna jet.
I'm amazed that people are so vehemently eager to have Wall Street
between them and their doctor. The medical-industrial-complex insurance
corporations are only rewarded for collecting your premiums and then
*not* paying your claims. It's called medical-loss-ratio. If a
health-scam corporation starts paying too great a ratio of medical
losses (aka patient claims), its stock gets punished. (I learned this from the wonderful Wendell Potter, whistleblower, ex-Cigna PR chief.)
I think if people
knew more and weren't responding to fortune-cookie propaganda, there'd
be no question that they'd demand a public option to at least slow the
juggernaut of the built-in rapacious greed-for-profit of the current
gold-rimmed-plates Let's Dupe the Sheeple arrangement.
According to Joe Califano, President Lyndon Johnson said, “I will fight
for Medicare as long as I have breath in my body.” We need this passion
in the current Democrats.
Thanks again,
Wendy
Wendy Fleet
Mountain View CA 94041
wendyfleet@gmail.com
650.966.1542
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http://www.russfeingold.org/
In a sea of Profiles in Jellyfishism, you have always been a Profile in
Courage. Progressives are grateful. I'm amazed that people in these
town brawls are so violently eager to use their premiums to pay CEO Ron
Williams of Aetna's $24 million dollar annual compensation. I'm happy
for them to do that, but I'd like the choice, the public option, not to
buy the gold-rimmed luncheon plates on the Aetna jet.
I'm amazed that people are so vehemently eager to have Wall Street
between them and their doctor. The medical-industrial-complex insurance
corporations are only rewarded for collecting your premiums and then
*not* paying your claims. It's called medical-loss-ratio. If a
health-scam corporation starts paying too great a ratio of medical
losses (aka patient claims), its stock gets punished. I think if people
knew more and weren't responding to fortune-cookie propaganda, there'd
be no question that they'd demand a public option to at least slow the
juggernaut of the built-in rapacious greed-for-profit of the current
gold-rimmed-plates Let's Dupe the Sheeple arrangement.
President Lyndon Johnson said, “I will fight to my last breath for
Medicare.” We need this passion in the current Democrats.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/
I'm amazed that people are so violently eager to use their premiums to
pay CEO Ron Williams of Aetna's $24 million dollar annual compensation.
I'm happy for them to do that, but I'd like the choice, the public
option, not to buy the gold-rimmed plates on the Aetna jet.
I'm amazed that people are so violently eager to have Wall Street
between them and their doctor. The medical-industrial-complex insurance
corporations are only rewarded for collecting your premiums and then
*not* paying your claims. It's called medical-loss-ratio. If a
health-scam corporation starts paying too great a ratio of medical
losses (patient claims), its stock gets punished.
I think if people knew more and weren't responding to
fortune-cookie propaganda, there'd be no question that they'd demand a
public option to at least slow the juggernaut of the built-in rapacious
greed-for-profit of the current gold-rimmed-plates Let's Dupe the
Sheeple arrangement.
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labman57 & periscope are near the bullseye. We all
need to know that the Wall Street Orcs in Suits control your health
non-care. Google Wendell Potter the ex Cigna big shot PR guy who's now
a whistleblower (http://prwatch.org/user/
Note the odious medical-loss-ratio which means that a health
corporation's stock is punished by Wall Street for any health care they
pay out (aka medical-loss –they want them premiums for stockholders,
not for patients. Payment to patients is considered a “medical-loss”).
Then there's RAPE — Rescind-And-Purge Evil. If you get sick, that
Mr. Williams of Aetna got the Gigantic Bucks because he invented a
computer program to comb any claims for the slightest pretext for the
insurance corporations to rescind the coverage you thought you had.
Re Purge, if you're a small business and have a modest group plan,
if one of your employees actually gets sick and needs to interfere with
pure unfettered bloodsucking of premiums, your small business will get
a huge increase in premiums to purge you from their rolls.
If you want to keep paying an average of $14 million dollar annual
medical-industrial-complex CEO salaries, be my guest. I'd prefer the
choice of a public option where the money goes to help me or you. Gee,
what a novel idea. (Self-employed, I haven't had health coverage since
1979 — 262,800 hours waiting in line . . .)
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