If the insurance companies win, you lose - around the country
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Take Action!
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Some final photos of real people around the country real pissed off at their insurance companies for denying their care, incentivizing employees to deny more care, and using our premiums to lobby Congress in opposition of health care reform and a public health insurance option.
In a phrase: They're sick of it!
In Palm Beach, FL:
In Washington:
In Wisconsin:
In Indiana:
From the web:
Las Vegas, NV:
In Nebraska:
And from Philedelphia, PA (via phillybits)
Is Congress getting the message?
Health Insurance companies will loose only if we voluntarily refuse to buy health insurance rather than wait untill we loose insurance when we loose our jobs. How do we manage without health insurance? By taking care of ourselves. By doing what people of underdeveloped countries do. Yes even then only the rich will benefit but not from the pool of money we middle class people have contibuted to, through our health insurance carriers. If we show unity and tell insurance companies that we do not want their services, sooner or later they will go broke and will be forced to hand over the responsibilty to people.
We could stop the health care companies (eg Cigna, Wellpoint, et all) from parasiting upon true health care professionals and generating obscene profits for their CEOs and top management. If the government took over their oprations and revised the true mission of those companies and let the top execs keep their ill gotten gains and their jobs but with more reasonable compensation, we would have a health care system beyond the wildest dreams of anyone who is presently for health care reform.
I do not envy doctors. I would not want to be in their shoes(not that I could ever be.) I have been bothered by the fact that hundreds of my co-workers lost their jobs and are now faced with only two hard choices ie to loose their and their families health insurance or buy the alternative at double the cost of what they were paying,(because their ex-employer will not pay the company's part.) How is a family suppose to survive without the money coming in and also having to pay for the health care coverage? I do feel sorry for doctors because their desire of releiving pain and saving a life are hampered by insurance rules and regulations, approval and denial of procedures and looking up Rx to match with the network. I understand that doctors have tons of student loans to pay back and in order to balance their own check book they end up working for HMOs that may or may not be linked with Health Insurance Companies. Hence they are obliged to see as many patients as possible in a given day and in order to do that they are neglecting doctor- patient relationship. The protocol is designed that way and therefore the whole infrastructure has changed. So yes, a doctor's noble aspirations are smothered as well as the compensation per patient is are far from reasonable. It is a sorry scene when a doctor's freindly good bye has changed into a nod as he is busy on the key board typing the patient's particulars !!!!