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Obamacare 2010 a/k/a “Penalize, Overcharge, Deprive, Let em Die": Part 1 – The Mandate Insanity
Corrente —
Authority: 640
We are about to lose another freedom. The right to die uninusured. The right to die uninsured, that is, without paying a fine for being uninsured because we cannot afford the insurance that would keep us alive. I think we can safely categorize this as an “insult to injury.” You thought you and your fellow ...12 hours ago -
Wendell Potter: Why Im Not Joining the Call to "Kill the Bill"
HOWIEINSEATTLE —
Authority: 499
Wendell Potter: Like many people who hoped the stars had finally aligned for a fundamental overhaul of our health care system, I have been going through all of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross stages of grief and loss -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance -- as Ive watched what has been happening in the ...1 week ago -
Who’s Enforcing the Medical Loss Ratio?
Firedoglake —
Authority: 748
Last night, former insurance industry executive Wendell Potter appeared on Countdown , claiming that the industry could get around the requirements on the medical loss ratio through accounting tricks. To recap, under the Senate bill, the insurance industry would be required to spend 85 cents of every dollar in the ...2 weeks ago -
Project 5 to 5: My Personalized Chain Letter To "Kill the Bill" -- FWIW!
Corrente —
Authority: 640
I AM SENDING THIS EMAIL TO AT LEAST FIVE FRIENDS AND ASKING THAT THEY CONTACT AT LEAST FIVE GOVERNMENT REPS TO KILL THE HEALTH CARE BILL: Subject line: PROJECT FIVE (friends) TO FIVE (Congress people): from libbyliberal asking for help to kill the “mockery of democracy” health care bill being rammed through ...2 weeks ago -
Wendell Potter on Countdown
WOK3 —
Authority: 140
While there are some good things in the reforms being proposed, the proof of who will really benefit is fairly evident as insurance stocks tick ever higher. How difficult is this to figure out really, if the reforms were really going to be making things difficult for the insurance companies, would everyone be buying ...2 weeks ago -
When Corporations Run Government This Is What You Get
Coffee, Tea & Hypocrisy —
Authority: 109
When corporations have undue influence on government you can count on one thing: the interests of the corporations will always be placed before the interests of individuals. Never has this been more true than in the devolution of the Senate version of H.R.3590 - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aka ...2 weeks ago -
Howard Dean in 2012?
4WRD THNKN DAD —
Authority: 114
So far, Howard Dean is the only politician willing to speak up and call out Obama and the Democrats for being wimps. He is calling for the Dems to scrap the current healthcare plan that appears to do nothing but insure that insurance companies get richer. Sure they can argue that 30 million people will [...]2 weeks ago -
Health insurance bailout
Phuck Politics - Titty fucking Nancy Pelosi one post at a time. —
Authority: 430
I knew the health care bill was bad , but I didn’t know it was that bad.2 weeks ago -
Big Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter: Senate Health care Bill is a BIG GIFT to the Insurance Industry
ProgressPolitics —
Authority: 126
Wendell Potter, a former top executive at Cigna, says that the only winners in the Senate Health Care Reform bill are CEO’s and executives of the insurance industry. So far two people that I trust, Dr. Howard Dean and Wendell Potter, says that the bill is not worth passing. And attempting to discredit Dean who ...2 weeks ago -
Stay Tuned…
Pennsylvania for Change —
Authority: 112
Wendell Potter will be speaking at Kutztown University on January 20. Mark you calendars. I will provide more details once they become available. Posted in Health, Health Care, Politics Tagged: Cats r Flyfishn @ Pennsylvania for Change, Cigna, Health Care, Kutztown, Kutztown University, News, Politics, Wendell ...3 weeks ago -
Cap the profits of health care insurers.
Dangerous Intersection —
Authority: 137
Former CIGNA executive Wendell Potter reports that in the early 1990s health insurance companies devoted more than 95% of every premium dollar to paying doctors and hospitals to reimburse them for health care provided to insurers. Things have changed: Today, insurers only pay about 81 cents of each premium dollar ...3 weeks ago -
Wendell Potter Speaks About the Health Insurance Industry’s Lethal Bottom Line – The Algorithms
The Medical Quack —
Authority: 449
Wendell Potter is now writing at the Huffington Post and write very clearly here and I agree whole heartedly, it’s the formulas as he calls them, in other words the complicated algorithms that cut you off and deny care when you or your group no longer provides profit. In the text he makes one point very clear ...4 weeks ago
