A new report estimates that currently 68 adults under age 65 die every day because they don’t have adequate health insurance coverage.
That’s over 2000 Americans every month, almost as many as were killed on 9/11.
9/11 is happening every month.
(but only if you’re under 65)
Because those over 65 qualify for our wildly popular single-payer socialized-medicine program, Medicare.
Sure, you can challenge the numbers, but let’s say it’s greatly exaggerated. What if it’s half that?
What if it’s only a quarter?
Hell, what if only ONE American under the age of 65 dies each month from lack of health insurance? Is that acceptable?
NO FUCKING WAY.
I encourage you to share this with your friends, neighbors, followers, parents, uncles, aunts, pundits, naysayers, doom-and-gloomers, eternal optimists, Senators and Representatives.
On the Fox Business Network, a host chided a vice president of WellPoint, which has just told California customers to expect huge rate increases: “You handed the politicians red meat at a time when health care is being discussed. You gave it to them!”
Nearly 1 million self-insured individuals (self-employed, small business owners, etc) in California who buy insurance on the individual market — as opposed to getting it through their employers — are covered by Anthem Blue Cross, a WellPoint subsidiary.
These are the people who were recently told to expect dramatic rate increases, in some cases as high as 39 percent.
But WellPoint says it’s not that…they had to raise rates because they’re in a Death Spiral.
“Every time the reform seems less likely that it will happen, the entire group trades higher,” said Perry, who has advised his clients to buy shares of Wellcare Health Plans Inc. (WCG), recently up 1.3% to $36.74, and Humana Inc. (HUM), up 1% to $42.26.
Among the other recent gainers in the sector, Aetna rose 2.7% to $32.65, Cigna Corp. (CI) added 2.3% to $36.41 and Well Point Inc. (WLP) gained 2.7% to $58.07. Meanwhile, UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) added 1.6% to $30.99.
Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee rebuffed two amendments to include the public option in its health care reform bill. The first amendment, offered by Jay Rockefeller went down 15-8. Chuck Schumer’s amendment failed to pass by a 13-10 vote.
I like this video…it’s about 5 minutes and it explains what is so freaking obvious to me but apparently is not so freaking obvious to certain people who love death panels.
I know this seems redundant, but this one has it’s own webpage and I spent like 30 minutes working on this video so I figured it deserved a second posting
My simple 2-minute how-to video on how to solve the health care crisis in America. Feel free to forward this to your representatives and tell them you think they’ve been working too hard.
It’s all about health care reform Diggz, Michelle, and Ryan talk to Ryan’s friend Dan, and Diggz friend Dave for a two-hour, non-stop, wacky, zany, exciting in-depth discussion about health care. Hold on to your sides folks, this is a rib splitter.
Sunday, February 28
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