[Peace-discuss] Fw: Grand Theft Health Insurance

Sat Oct 19 03:50:01 UTC 2013

George Carlin made the analogy of being continually
subject to the raw abuse of a red-white-and-blue phallus.

One part of the society seems to accept it passively.

Another part seems to enjoy it.

Perhaps another part doesnt even recognize it.

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/*Given that the USA will not have a
"single payer system",
what should you do?
*/

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Clearly the Teabaggers were right about one thing.

Fukuppy should take the place of the eagle as the symbol
of the amerikan government.

"Hajimemashite. Fukuppy desu." = "My name is Fukuppy. Nice to meet you."

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I am shopping for a microscope these days.  I note that some
models of microscopes are not available for sale in the usa
because they havent been approved for use there by the FDA.

The tentacles of Amerika reach around the world.

I think they should have held your federal government under the water
until the bubbles quit coming up.

On 10/19/13 7:34, David Johnson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* David Johnson <mailto:davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>
> *To:* JWJ C-U <mailto:centralILJwJ at yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, October 18, 2013 6:33 PM
> *Subject:* Fw: Grand Theft Health Insurance
>
> Forget the corporate controled DNC propoganda about the fraud that is 
> Obamacare, read this from a Working class person dealing with the 
> reality of Obamacare, NOT the propoganda fantasy from non-Working 
> class people who HAVE decent health insurance.
>
>
>   Grand Theft Health Insurance
>
>
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/17/grand-theft-health-insurance/
>
>
> *by RUSSELL MOKHIBER*
> *Here I sit, in West Virginia, staring down at January 1, 2014.
> That’s when my health insurance policy expires and I have a decision 
> to make — renew or not renew?
> Right now, I’m paying about $7,000 a year in premiums for a monster 
> deductible and yearly out of pocket of about $15,000 for myself and my 
> family.
> My health insurance company informed me yesterday that my premium will 
> doubled to $14,000 on January 1.
> I’ve been trying to get onto the Obamacare web site now for ten days 
> to search for an alternative.  No luck. I made it through four pages 
> yesterday — then got a message saying I’d have to wait because there 
> was too much traffic. When I clicked the continue button, it wiped out 
> the information I had typed into the first three pages.
> But even if I do get onto the exchanges, it’s probably not going to 
> matter.
> I **read in a newspaper that Highmark* 
> <http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/highmark-to-be-alone-on-wva-exchange-702974/>* is 
> the only health insurance company on the exchange in West Virginia. 
> Yesterday, I called Highmark and spent an hour on the phone with a 
> nice young man — but the results were not good. The skimpiest plan is 
> going to cost me more than I’m paying now for a higher deductible and 
> out of pocket result.
> Thank you Obamacare.
> My insurance agent told me yesterday I had only one alternative — wait 
> for six years until Medicare kicks in and keep fighting for single payer.
> Obviously, the Democrats and anyone who defends them are not going to 
> be of any help in the next round. They are irrevocably tied to 
> President Obama and Obamacare and even those Democrats nominally in 
> favor of single payer **refuse to criticize it for the industry 
> written law that it is.* 
> <http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2013/10/03/single-payer-bernie-sanders-and-ted-cruz/>
> *I agree with Dr. Quentin Young of Physicians for a National Health 
> Program when he says that Obamacare should have been defeated* 
> <http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2013/10/08/single-payer-advocate-quentin-young-passing-obamacare-worse-than-doing-nothing/>* because 
> it enshrines and solidifies corporate domination of the health care 
> system.
> But what to do next? Well, first thing is to watch a movie called 
> **Healthcare — The Movie.* <http://healthcaremovie.net/>* It’s a short 
> documentary — 62 minutes — but packs a big punch. The movie was 
> produced by a husband wife team — the wife Canadian — Laurie Simons — 
> and the husband American — Terry Sterrenberg.
> The movie toggles back and forth between the USA and Canada — with 
> Americans struggling with bankruptcy, death from lack of health 
> insurance and the dark cloud of health insurance armageddon menacing 
> their lives from cradle to an often early grave.
> The Canadians, by contrast, are living in a relative health care 
> nirvana, thanks in large part to Tommy Douglas, a boxer and Premier of 
> Saskatchewan who stood up to the red baiting being dished out at the 
> time by the Canadian medical establishment. Douglas emerged victorious 
> and his efforts resulted in the creation of Canada’s single payer 
> Medicare for all. The movie is narrated by actor Kiefer Sutherland — 
> Tommy Douglas’ grandson.
> The film features great historic clips — including a remarkable scene 
> where a CBC television show host asks the question — who is the 
> greatest Canadian? And then, in reality show format, puts it up to a vote.
> “After six weeks, ten finalists, and more than a million votes,” the 
> CBC host says, “it ended tonight with one name . And I have the 
> envelope here. The greatest Canadian as decided by you is — Tommy 
> Douglas.”
> Imagine that — the country says that Tommy Douglas, the father of 
> single payer in Canada, is greater than its greatest hockey player — 
> Wayne Gretzky.
> Tommy Douglas’ courageous act — standing up for the people of Canada 
> against the vicious attacks of the powers that be — has resulted in a 
> system that delivers health care for all Canadians — no complex bills, 
> no deductibles, no deaths from lack of health insurance, no medical 
> bankruptcies — all funded by a progressive tax system.
> The movie profiles Canadians with serious medical illness — who come 
> out financially unscathed — no bills, no bankruptcy, no health related 
> financial worries.
> And then compares those Canadians to the suffering human beings south 
> of the border.
> The movie does a good job of making us Americans feel like crap 
> compared to our cousins up north.
> Check out this sequence, for example:
> How many people in the United States die each year because they have 
> no health insurance?
> 45,000
> How many people in Canada die each year because they have no health 
> insurance?
> Zero.
> How many people go bankrupt each year in the United States because of 
> medical expenses?
> 922,819
> How many people go bankrupt each year in Canada because of medical 
> expenses?
> Zero.
> How many Americans do not have health insurance?
> 50 million.
> How many Canadians do not have health insurance?
> Zero.
> How many Americans go without medical care because of costs?
> 115 million.
> How many Canadians go without medical care because of costs?
> Zero.
> One of the stars of this film is a young American from Portland, 
> Oregon named Lindsay Caron.
> “I was a free-lance artist for a long time,” Caron says.  “I gave that 
> up to go sit in an office and file papers so that I could have health 
> care.  And it amazed me that other people in other countries never had 
> to think about that. I kept hearing that Canada’s system was broken, 
> and that Canadians were flocking over the border to get US care.  And 
> so I wanted to go to Canada with a camera and ask a couple hundred 
> people. I bought a ticket up to Vancouver, Canada. I rented camera 
> equipment. And I took my bicycle. I thought maybe I would stay  in 
> Vancouver for a couple of days and cycle on back to Portland. I ended 
> staying there the whole week.  I got up in the morning, set up a 
> camera on the street and just start asking people questions.”
> Caron finds out what polls in Canada consistently confirm — that the 
> vast majority of Canadians would never in a thousand years give up 
> their Medicare coverage for the nightmare south of the border.
> It all came about because Tommy Douglas had the guts to stand up to 
> the political and medical establishment and do what is right for the 
> Canadian people.
> Canada did it.
> There is no reason we can’t do it.
> It’s simply a matter of reordering our priorities.
> Let’s put aside, for a moment, our millions of copies of Grand Theft 
> Auto 5 and start playing a new game — Grand Theft — Health Insurance.
> The goal of the game is to become a boxer, like Tommy Douglas — and 
> fight back against the insurance industry and its Frankenstein monster 
> — Obamacare.
> Repeal Obamacare.
> Replace it with single payer.
> */*Russell Mokhiber* edits Single Payer Action 
> <http://www.singlepayeraction.org/>./
>
>
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