Comments on: Final health care plan falls short of Obama’s promises

By: Jim C

Jim C — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:30:54 +0000

Yeah , you do know that according to the insurance industry they only have a 2
% profit margin ? Of course they also are allowed to make up their own formula for what is profit . The rate you mentioned is only for the largest groups , the smaller groups in these new scam collectives will have a 20% allowable margin . But don’t worry , I’m confident the oversight will be fierce . All they now have to do is jack the rates up and up go the profits with them , who’s going to stop that ? Plus , they will now be subsidized with our tax money so the actual rates won’t be as noticeable to most policy holders , we’ll be paying them right out of the treasury . Sounds like a great deal to me , for the insurance industry .

By: Jim C

Jim C — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:09:23 +0000

I just wish this grinning jackass would stop worrying himself sick about republican ideas and perhaps put maybe one or two democratic ideas in this sorry excuse for a bill . The only ” ideas ” in this bill seem to be to force us into the tender grasp of the insurance industry and allow them access to the treasury with no real rules or strings attached . I know , I know , the insurance industry hates this bill . You can tell by all the adds etc they’ve been running against it . I know they must be , I just seem to have missed them . Then of course there was the little ruse of raising the rates in California , just what you would expect from an industry trying to fight the implementation of a bill they hate . Yeah , just pull a stunt like that right at a critical juncture to give the proponents of the hated bill ammunition , yep , they’re that stupid . They did supposedly run some adds ( a couple of million dollars worth ) on some cable channel somewhere , anybody see those ? I didn’t either . That’s certainly what one would expect from a multi billion dollar corrupt industry fighting tooth and nail to kill a feared and hated piece of legislation . The only real fight going on here is the fight for corporate money between the republicans and the new third way corporate democrats . I knew as soon as Obama started putting together his administration we’d been had , not a liberal in sight , all these guys would be perfectly comfortable in a republican administration. One more thing , has anyone else noticed that the so called liberal talkers and commentators ( except for a few ) have become nothing but Obama cheerleaders ? Schultz and Miller and that little smart aleck twerp Hal Sparks etc are marching lockstep waving pompoms making excuses for his lies and deceit , it’s sickening , I can hardly listen to them anymore . If a liberal calls in and dares to bring any of these double cross’s up they are berated and essentially dismissed as left wing liberal extremists . They might as well be talking to right wing radio . It seems that the corporate boys have gained complete control of both right wing media and what used to be liberal media with a few and declining number of exceptions . We are in big trouble people .

By: WayneKDolik

WayneKDolik — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:53:50 +0000

The time for democrats to stand up for the Constitution has already expired. I’ve always said if the shoe fits wear it. We have been sold out.

A work in progress? How preposterous, like the loss of habeas corpus, or the patriot act? People wake up you have been had.

By: dtotire

dtotire — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:06:03 +0000

True, the bill is flawed. It should be considered as a work in progress, which needs improving. I believe that one provision requires insurers to pay 85% of premiums collected to paying medical bills. This will limit their profits, and can be increased at a later date.