another reason to pass health care reform

[luckyleftyme2]

In2009,our worst economic year since the great depression. Our top 5 insurance
companies, whose CEOS SALARIES WERE IN THE MULTI -MILLIONS, STILL MANAGED TO RAISE THEIR PROFITS BY 56 PERCENT!
What are they doing with this excess profit? for one thing spending 1.4 million a day on lobbyists hell bent on defeating a health-care reform that would help people and begin bring this country into parity with the rest of the civilized world.the reform bill is far more efficient than the present system which is accountable to only their CEOS and their stock holders.(subsidizing bonus -hungary ceos , its an outrage that pvt. health care ins. is such a profit
driven industry).
Republican fear mongering talk of a"government take over" of health -care isis nonsense. what we are talking about is another option. Didn't republicans use to want choice? bedsides the government is now administering almost half of our health care with Medicare and medicaid, and is doing it more efficiently than the private sector.
the reason the public option is gone is because of the lies the right spread and the lobbyists.(the obstructionists have so poisoned the air that the bill will now go to a reconciliation vote. the bill is less than it should be but far better than the broken private sector can offer.
the choice of public option was what the public wanted but the power and money of the insurance industry over our elected representatives had more influence than the people.
how very sad!

[Donnachaidh]

1. with 30 million more people forced to purchase from them -- expect MORE profit increases

Math an issue? :sarcasm:

[mdmc]

2. you are wrong about the public option my friend

We didn't lose it to rw lies, we lost it to payola from the insurance lobby to the Dems.
Dems didn't want to get rid of the for profit health insurance industry - they just wanted to "reform" this industry.

[luckyleftyme2]

3. that is looney tunes

that is the first thing that jon boneher refuted! and he done it publicly many times- and it was headlines on media many times-the party of no wanted no single payer or private option! check your facts!
of course you have to go back a few months to do this!
just like the tea party they are trying to control!