Why are people not angry at private insurance company death squads?
They have a bottom line that is more important than granny and her health care needs any day of the week. They are more likely to pull granny’s plug if her care cuts into their profits. So why aren’t the same folks shouting at their representatives at town halls not giving hell to the private insurers?
They won’t even ask granny, your mother or anyone they will just pull that plug.
where did I say I liked Obamacare?
OK, not Granny. Let’s say Bob’s plug or Betty’s plug…OK?
I don’t beleive you Queen.
Tags: angry, company, death, insurance, People, private, squads
January 10th, 2010 at 12:33 am
Why do you like Obamacare?
January 10th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Some are, but there’s really nothing you can do about it. It’s either
a. fight the health insurance companies, lose coverage, and go without health care
b. shut your mouth and do what they tell you to do
Unfortunately, most people opted for B. until now.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:44 am
Although you are being sarcastic, and your assumptions baseless, the idea of “death squads” may become a reality at some point in the near future, and go beyond just denying people health insurance coverage. Adolf Hitler wrote in “Mein Kampf” that individuals who could not contribute to the good of society should be eliminated (executed). He specifically mentioned deformed babies, mentally ill, the aged and infirm, the sick… anyone who was incapable of work or whose existence was a drain on the resources of the society as a whole must be killed off.
In the future, if overpopulation becomes an issue, it will be impossible for a society, especially an aging one where older persons far outnumber younger workers, to care for all those who are sick, feeble, aged, or otherwise unable to take care of themselves. The solution may be euthanasia. If each worker must devote part of his income to support one or two unable to work, that is one thing, but if he must support ten, or twenty, or fifty, it simply is impossible. When that day comes it may become, out a sheer economic necessity, necessary to put them to sleep to save money and resources. In this, then, Hitler was way ahead of his time.
Humans are the only animals on the face of the earth that try to keep terminally ill people or sick and disabled people alive long past the point where they would have died on their own. In the rest of the animal kingdom, the sick or injured are killed right away.
January 10th, 2010 at 2:25 am
Because in a free enterprise system it’s ok to kill people and rip people off as long as you are making money and you don’t work for the Government..
January 10th, 2010 at 2:52 am
Kind of hard to be angry at figments of right-wing dullards’ imaginations.
January 10th, 2010 at 3:25 am
I have a medical condition that needs constant monitoring. I have never had a problem with my insurance saying – that’s all we’re going to pay, good-bye to you and your problems, or sorry you can only have that test when we tell you. I pay my deductible and they take care of the rest. I’m also able to get in for a test within a week – not having to wait months. I think it’s going pretty well myself.
January 10th, 2010 at 3:49 am
Can you post a source that proves this is a common practice of health insurance? Otherwise, this is just a wild accusation, whereas the death panels in the House bill were right there in print.
January 10th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Actually your analogy sounds more like what would happen under universal health care. The insurance company would probably ask you to fork over more money unless they offer full coverage. However, most elderly people are insured by medicare which pays for mostly everything.
January 10th, 2010 at 4:27 am
Granny has Medicaid, a government program that will take care of her no matter what. Hellooooo. . . .
But you’re right. Those that are against healthcare reform (because it would cut into their profits) are using the death squad thing to scare people into opposing reform. How sad is it that people can be so afraid of dying that they will act against their own best interests? How said is it that people can be made so afraid that they will believe anything you tell them instead of thinking for themselves? Are people really that dumb?
It’s been scientifically proven that conservatives scare way more easily. Look up Terror Management Theory.
January 10th, 2010 at 5:13 am
No such thing, just what the gov is pushing down our throats now that’s scary!
January 10th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Probably because unlike Claire McCaskill they are not advocating taking away motorized wheelchairs/scooters away from the disabled to redistribute the wealth to the young and healthy!
Medicare sucks and it IS expensive. I have to choose between eating and medicine. It costs, plus a huge deductible. Just wait folks, it ain’t free.
MR
January 10th, 2010 at 6:50 am
Many are which is why we need health care reform. This aspect is not being given the propaganda coverage that right-wingers are giving to the imaginary death panels that they attribute to the proposed reform.
January 10th, 2010 at 7:29 am
Insurance companies *cannot* pull the plug on anyone, the premise of your question begins and ends with a fallacy.
January 10th, 2010 at 8:27 am
That is not true.
I have dealt on behalf of elderly family members with their healthcare. And Never Once did their supplemental insurance refuse to pay their bills or suggest to “pull the plug.”
January 10th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Because I’m not forced to join one.,