Insurance Industry: "What do you expect us to do? We have to make a profit!"
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Jason Rosenbaum in Profits Before People
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While I'm still waiting for video and news reports from the insurance industry's "listening tour" stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday, here's the report we got back from our people on the ground:
Karen Ignagni's [the CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, the insurance industry's front group] moderator blew his cool with a group of ACORN people [who were protesting in support of Health Care for America Now], pointing at them angrily and calling them aside.
With the rest of the audience silent and watching, he spat, "What do you expect us to do?! They [the insurance industry] HAVE to make a profit!!" He went on, and then - with the whole auditorium's wide eyes on her - an ACORN member burst back in response, "These are the corporations that killed reform efforts back in '93. Are you honestly telling me that they're working for the people now? That they honestly want reform?!"
The moderator guy was so startled by her forcefulness that he physically back-peddled and stumbled over someone else.
So, they know we're here.
Damn right they know we're here. Americans want real health care reform. We can see through the insurance industry's blurring strategy. We know that no matter what language the insurance industry uses, they are fundamentally against health care reform. They are working against the American people, and everyone knows it.
We're here. We're not going away. We're going to win real health care reform in 2009.
Oh, and no word yet on the dates, times, and locations of the next stop on this sham listening tour in Providence, RI. As soon as we know, you'll know, and we'll all make sure they know we're there.
The corporate rich get richer I get more scared and they get more of the money I do not have. Same old song that not enough Citizens who could vote for reform know how to sing the tune. I work part time as a substitute teacher. I have no benefits from my jobs. I purchased private health insurance, on my own (so I am counted as having some) BUT it has a $7,500.00
(Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars and no cents) deductible, and pays 100% of the usual and customary charges after that. If I get very sick will I have to pay out of my pocket more than $10,000.00 and fight with the insurance company for every dime they will have to pay on my behalf? You bet your sweet ass I will! Am I happy about it? No. Can anything be done? Get rid of all the corporate welfare programs in our government and then there will be PLENTY of money for health care. Put people before the military industrial complex, Yeah! (I know this will never happen) Lets educate the poor about just how bad our school system really is and how little detail anyone without a college education actually understands about how our government works(or doesn't). Good try preaching to the ranks of the already converted, reach the ones who are clueless.