Quote Ned Lamont
"Employees and businesses alike are paying more and more for health insurance, and receiving less and less health care security. More than one in ten Connecticut residents lack health insurance and many others are underinsured. Most of the uninsured are working, but don't get coverage at work and can't afford it on their own.
I believe employers should be required to pay their fair share for insurance for all full-time employees, and that all uninsured children must be covered. The federal government must provide subsidies to those who can not afford health care and help small employers buy into a pool to reduce costs and protect against catastrophic expenses."
WRONG!!!!!!!!!! How could CT people VOTE for this! You are pure idiots!
Read on....
The insurance that the uninsured will get, will be nothing but a bunch of expensive CRAP! The high deductibles on the policies will make the formerly uninsured STILL pay out of their own pockets.
Who will be getting the premium revenues which will be in the millions of dollars!?!?!? The huge health conglomerates because not only do they own the hospitals etc....they also own the health insurance. PLUS they will be getting more money when stupid formerly uninsured people think that they can go to the doctor now.
I know 'cause I've been involved with the health care industry since 1979. I've seen what has been developing. Now, I have no financial future, even though I have insurance!
Back in the 80's, the high prices that health providers were greedy enough to demand made a rebellion in the separate insurance industry. Pretty soon, the separate insurance industry owned the health providers...not really owned, but all balled up into one happy conglomerate....a trick of accounting. Then the conglomerates decided to raise their prices to hold onto their "plan members" with cute discounts for members and everyone on the outside of the "plan" were charged extreme prices. The uninsured really had to pay then. The conglomerates went into the very heart of working America and held a carrot to the employers, promising good things to them for favors.
Then the conglomerates weren't feeding enough to themselves and turned on the very businesses that helped them corral the now trapped workers. The congloms demanded higher and higher premiums and made their prices higher and higher than the regular rate of inflation. The businesses were bowing out.
They got a little pissed 'cause they got cheated. They thought that they were working a cool deal for themselves by letting the devil in. Wrong!
In a real world of decent economy, this business model would snuff itself out. And it was on the verge of just that. So...in.... steps Mitt Romney, Rep gov of Mass whose worried for people like the Frists and their multi million dollar Hospital Corporation of America and also interested in helping his Bain Capital LLC who now owns HCA get filthy stinking rich ! ( Didn't you see the news these last few weeks? Didn't you see how Bain (founded by Romney) used China money to grab onto the largest conglom in the world?)
Insurance For All, Romney's law passed -- 385 million dollars of fed money pumped into the health conglomerates hands just for the state of Mass.
John Kerry, likewise, won't be outdone. The same plan!!!! Only he's proposing the same plan for the nation as a whole!!! Little Ned is tagging along because he can't think for himself and puts this same stupid 'idea' (above) on his web page.
The problem is and always has been PRICE!
Where is the plan for PRICE CONTROLS!!!! Where is the Democratic Party's thoughts on real reform?
This is the Ugly, but REAL solution to the whole big shitting problem. The health conglomerates must be made to behave themselves in the business world, and act responsibly. They shouldn't be allowed to take America for everything it has, rape the sick, hold hostage the nation's economy. Right now they are eating up 16.9% of the GNP as we speak, and getting very fat.
Oh not fair, communistic to force things....???? What is fair?
Each and every American, enslaved to the health conglomerates with absolutely no financial future (I am one of them now)
or
each and every hard working, decent individual FREE like they should be, FREE to have a financial future and the poor conglomerates being the enslaved.
Tell your cute little Ned to THINK for himself when he goes to Washington. And you people in Mass, tell your man Kerry, he is in right field copycatting the Republicans.