Nuremberg style trials for Health Insurance Co's/HMO executives?

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Poll question: Nuremberg style trials for Health Insurance Co's/HMO executives?

Once private insurance is put out of business, it will be time to deal with these monsters whose greed has led to the deaths of millions.

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1. I'm expecting Diebold to march in...

...and perform an "audit" on this poll any minute now....

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2. kick

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3. This is personal for me...

Some brief background...in Dec 1999, my beloved sister-in-law, age 42, had pains in her chest, trouble breathing, and a bad cough. My brother took her to their HMO primary physician, who, without bothering with an x-ray or antibiotics, or any other test, diagnosed a pulled muscle, and sent her home with pain pills.

Three days later it was worse; my brother bundled her up, took her to the E.R., where she died 18 hours later of viral pneumonia. My non-smoking, health food-eating, workout regularly brother died a few months later of a heart attack. I spent a week with him after his wife died, and I will always be convinced, as corny as it sounds, that he died of a broken heart. He was 12 years my junior, I helped raise him, and dammit, he was like my first child.

I could recount other stories, all people covered by HMOs, who were denied timely medical care; one died of cancer, another survived, but minus a leg. Damn straight I want to see them prosecuted, and in prison.