Insurance premium increases = higher taxes!!!
This needs to resonate with every person not informed about the math behind the Republican logic along with corporate whores like Max Baucus (turncoat, traitor, sellout Democrat) and Lindsay Graham who would sell his family to the any special interest who gives him a buck.
The insurance companies have produced a 428% profit margin off the backs of American tax payers and people who have managed health care.
So if your a company selling healthcare, you can produce a 428% increase in profits, you dam sure don't want a cheaper government OPTION (not mandate) ruining your scheme. It is no different than Bernie Madoff's scheme to screw people out of money while they screw people out of health care and constantly raise the cost of people's insurance.
If I were to use the whole right wing logic in regards to their views on abortion than one could conclude that Health Insurance companies are proponents of letting innocent people die everyday by denying them access to affordable healthcare!!!
They are no different than a serial killer who's twisted and derranged view of the world ruthlessly kills innocent people.
The Republican's will cry "higher taxes" but isn't the exact same when insurance companies selectively game the system and tax your paycheck at a much higher rate than inflation? Isn't it a back door tax?
I can attest as a neuromotor-therapist working in an outpatient clinic, insurance companies are continuing to cut back therapies, length of stays in rehabilitation, the reimbursment rates, durable medical equipment (they want you to buy toilet seats at Walmart), etc. While they continue to make more and more profit.
I'll never forget the look in a patient's eyes when they are rehabilitating from a stroke, heart attack or a traumatic brain injury when you have to use language like "maximized your benefit that your insurance will allow" and send them home depressed and broken. Especially those patients who have worked hard their entire lives, been relatively healthy and paid into an HMO or private insurance only to be told that all those years of paying into a private insurance paid off for a finite amount of visits.
It's a very sad thing!!!
The insurance companies in this country are the epitomy of what is wrong ,with our country. Any politician, especially Democrats who don't support the publicn OPTION should either switch parties, have their health care taken away, or be ran out of country.
They are not good people by any stretch of the imagination!!!
If you want to lower taxes (which is basically the amount of money that comes out of your paycheck, than cut the corporate greed out of your paycheck!!! Lower insurance rates = lower taxes!!!