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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Never mind

No, there's just too bloody much insanity and stupidity to not write.

Check this out:

"Insurance premiums have risen by 73.8% from 2000 to 2006, while the U.S. median income has increased 11.6% during that same period, according to a study released Tuesday by Families USA, the Helena Independent Record reports (Harrington, Helena Independent Record, 10/18)."

This report just came out in the middle of trying to get our health care overhauled in the US.

Read it again, ladies and gentlemen, and remember this.

The above statistic is further proof that, not only do we need health care reform in the US but we need it badly and it must, by necessity, include the government-run "public option" of insurance.

The corporations, I will say again, are eating us alive.

And we're letting them.

If you aren’t for health care reform in general and the “public option”, in particular, you’re voting against your own self-interests, in favor of the corporations.

Which, normally, would be fine except the rest of us would all suffer along with you, with much higher costs, ad infinitum.

Link to story:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/54522.php

5 comments:

Tony said...

That was quick and for the better. Free advice (take it for what it's worth) . . . Put blogging on your schedule not the other way around.

You regularly come up with AWESOME stuff.

Mo Rage said...

First, Tony, thanks. I appreciate the compliment.

It isn't that I don't have time to schedule it, it's that, really, it's just one more opinion out there. What brought me back is just the insanity in the world, that's all. I'd like to shine a light on the really obnoxious and/or stupid stuff.

Mo Rage said...

That said, Tony, I'm requesting you show up at the Aug. 25 bloggers get-together at Spin on Main.

FletcherDodge said...

"it must, by necessity, include the government-run "public option" of insurance."

Medicare/caid ?

I agree that we need drastic reform in health care, I just have absolutely no confidence that our government can provide a national health care system without fucking it up worse than it already is.

GOPnot4me said...

Another telling stat....

During the last 8 years (2000-2008), CEO compensation at the 10 biggest insurance companies rose in excess of 400%!

I'll take government bureaucrats over those jackels, anyday.

Plz, I can haz singul payer, pleez?