—Come on. Efficient public program is an oxymoron. The gov’t cannot do anything efficiently. See Medicaid and SS. This will just be one more way for the populace to elect “free” gifts from the treasury. Once the AAA rating of the US is down in the dumps following the dollar, alas there will be no way to pay for the elephant. And by the way…The gov’t does not “compete” fairly in anything. The gov’t has “unlimited” resources and the ability to change the rules. That is not competition.

Having said that, Insurance companies are a big part of the problem. But what good does replacing one administrative bureaucracy with another?

I hate having to continually pay for the bad decisions of others. This is the Land of the Free and most seem to think that means “Free of consequences”.

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate $4,852,725 (career total)
The SOB has received almost 5 million from the industry he protecting from us “mice.”

Complements of http://www.opensecrets.org

Free market capitalism is great for the CEOs,
not so much for their customers.

Too bad that when it comes to inefficient corporate welfare, republican scum are agin it.

Take away all the FREE, Premium, Tax-Payer Funded, Socialist Health Care Republicans members of Congress and their families are given and make them fend for themselves in the private market. Then we’ll see who’s the Elephant and who’s the mouse!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Republican party is known as the GOP, and that acronym obviously stands for “Guardians of Privilege”

Yesterday I found out that our insurance carrier, BC/BS, is instituting pre-authorization for certain prescription medication. If your doctor thinks you need a particular medication, and it’s on a list, s/he will have to call the insurer before they will cover a prescription. It has nothing to do with human health, it’s because even the insurance companies don’t want to pay the outrageous cost of prescription medication.

I bet Lamar thought he was so clever when he came up with that one. Frackin’ dipshit.

So just let the govt program compete with the private and the private will leave the govt standing.

That is so true!!! Here in Canada, becaues of single payer, money can’t get you to the front of the line!!! We don’t care how much money one has becase of this basic rule….I will get the same service as you (rick folk)when it comes to health coverage.

This pisses off the rich here. So they feel they are above the rest of us because they fly down to the US, open up there wallets and pay through the nose for the privillage of saying “I got treated right away” . WHAT FOOLS!! I have seen first hand when someone is really sick here and I can tell you there is no WAITING!!!

YOU ARE SERVED ACCORDINGLY TO YOUR SAVERITY OF YOUR HEALTH…IN OTHER WORDS, YOUR NOT GOING TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A COLD AND HEALTH INSURANCE!!! It may take 4 weeks to get a MRI but if your really sick…IT’S DONE RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!!!! So please don’t buy the lies that there are huge lines.

One last point….I’d rather wait in line knowing I’m going to get treated, then not being able to stand in line because I can’t afford coverage!!!

It’s incredible. Opponents of a “public option” and single payer say this all the time, but all it proves is how terrible the private system is and how it should be scrapped all together.

There is no better argument for single payer than the one Alexander just made

If the insurance industry giants are doing everything right business-wise, then why are they afraid of a little competition?

They don’t see health insurance as a right but as a privledge given to those who are wealthy, white and Christian. Phuck Republicans.

Our single payer is GREAT!! no forms to fill, get to pick my own doctor. My wife’s contribution (through her taxes)$1300 for the year(or $108 a month). Everything is covered that has to be covered. Hospital stays, tests, specialists etc.

You could not pay me enough to have private only insurance!!! Especially when the insurer can drop you as soon as you get to sick. So what is the point of having private insurance??? The point is “the illusion that you are getting something great becuase its private”. It’s just an illusion!

I was an outpatient from the time I was 4 until 18 (now im in my 40’s)I spent 4 months in the hospital. Total cost to my parents $0.00!!!

My parents were not slaves to the insurance companies, or doctor bills! This allowed my parents (who were imagrents at the time) TO BUILD UP THERE OWN PERSON WEALTH BECUASE MY PARENTS DID NOT HAVE TO SPEND THERE HARD EARNED CASH TO KEEP ME ALIVE!!!

I hope from the bottem of my heart, the citizens of the US get a government plan (single payer). YOU WILL BE AMAZED HOW YOUR PERSONAL WEALTH WILL ACCUMULATE OVER TIME WITHOUT GETTING RAPED BY INSURANCE COMPANIES!!!

Fight for your right…human right!!!! like others in the industrialized world have.

In response, the health insurance lobby group AHIP has insisted that such competition would be “potentially lethal” to their industry.

At the risk of repeating what so many others have said so well here: Expose them to this lethal potential and bid them adieu.
From one who is running out of COBRA and been turned down by three health insurance comapanies for “pre-existing condition”. How many people over 50 don’t have a pre-existing condition?

using United Healthcare as an example — your insurance company paid their CEO — one man — $324,000,000 over a recent five year period.

http://blogs.webmd.com/mad-about-medicine/2007/08/ceo-compensation-who-said-healthcare-is.html

If the insurance industry giants are doing everything right business-wise, then why are they afraid of a little competition?

May 6th, 2009 at 11:07 am
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According to the laws of cartoon biology, they are, and cartoons never lie.

I don’t know how Lamar Alexander could have forgotten that. He must be suffering from amnesia. Quick – someone drop another anvil on his head!