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Health care executives make hundreds of millions and spend added millions traveling on corporate jets and eating from gold plated dinnerware.
Reports from Wendell Potter exposed CIGNA Health care Profits as $4.8 billion while claims payments were just $787 million. Do we suppose those excessive profits, salaries, and compensations have something to do with the health care industry being exempt from proper oversight and anti-trust laws?
The industry campaigns with our money, their lies, and ridicules assertions to convince us we don't need reform or competition. Every dollar not paid to a claim is added to their exorbitant profits and salaries. Generally, they insure people with the least risks, exclude people with preexisting conditions, charge women more than men, rip-off the seriously ill with higher rates, cancel the insurance of those that develop severe illness, constantly increase premiums, and raise co-payments for the rest of us. Moreover, hospital emergency rooms are burdened by millions of American's not having health insurance.
The Republican party first fought health care reform by claiming it was socialistic, because it advanced a public option. However, now that the public option is off the table the Republicans say the reform is a train wreck. And that's just the way they fought Social Security, Medicare, banking regulation, minimum wage laws, a women's right to vote, the Veteran's Administration, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the National Parks to name a few reforms and programs they delayed and tried to defeat.
Once again, it is obvious Republicans continue to represent big moneyed interests and are now agents of the health care industry, but at least after more than 40 years we have started reforming and regulating health care nationally.
Worth F. Crouch
Auburn
Reports from Wendell Potter exposed CIGNA Health care Profits as $4.8 billion while claims payments were just $787 million. Do we suppose those excessive profits, salaries, and compensations have something to do with the health care industry being exempt from proper oversight and anti-trust laws?
The industry campaigns with our money, their lies, and ridicules assertions to convince us we don't need reform or competition. Every dollar not paid to a claim is added to their exorbitant profits and salaries. Generally, they insure people with the least risks, exclude people with preexisting conditions, charge women more than men, rip-off the seriously ill with higher rates, cancel the insurance of those that develop severe illness, constantly increase premiums, and raise co-payments for the rest of us. Moreover, hospital emergency rooms are burdened by millions of American's not having health insurance.
The Republican party first fought health care reform by claiming it was socialistic, because it advanced a public option. However, now that the public option is off the table the Republicans say the reform is a train wreck. And that's just the way they fought Social Security, Medicare, banking regulation, minimum wage laws, a women's right to vote, the Veteran's Administration, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the National Parks to name a few reforms and programs they delayed and tried to defeat.
Once again, it is obvious Republicans continue to represent big moneyed interests and are now agents of the health care industry, but at least after more than 40 years we have started reforming and regulating health care nationally.
Worth F. Crouch
Auburn
