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   oldlegodad said, about 1 month ago

   There is an ugly ‘crat trick at the door.

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   big G 3469 said, about 1 month ago

   More like the truthsayer terrorizing The GOP Monsters Ghouls & Fiends Oldie ( your kind of creepy creeps!) ‘D

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   scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

   Total amount of health care spending which consists of insurance premiums: 7%.

   That’s a FACT.

   Yeah, geniuses, we’ll “fix” health-care by ignoring the other 93% of the problem, you BET.

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   Amount of healthcare spending spent on private insurers’ overhead and profit: 30 percent.

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   cdward said, about 1 month ago

   Um, should we ever believe anything from ANandy?

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   M Kitt said, about 1 month ago

   Anandy and Fritos, what’s not to trust?

   http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/commentary/article/ED-MILL12_20090710-195604/279279/#

   http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=318508

   And since the insurance companies have immunity under employee provisions, their cancellations (or denial of coverage) can’t be pursued:
   http://smargus.com/2009/08/waxman-refuses-vote-to-revoke-immunity-for-insurance-companies-in-health-care-bill/

   And here’s where the money from policy cancellations and denials of coverage goes:

   http://sickforprofit.com/ceos/

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   charliekane said, about 1 month ago

   Puts me in mind of “Count Floyd” of SCTV, the host of the weekend cheap horror flick show on that mythical network.

   In supposed commercial breaks he would ramp up the “fear” by howling, and intoning (in a bad Dracula accent) “Oooo that’s scarrry”, “OOOOooo that’s rrreally scarrry!”

   One one occasion, he broke character, a la Groucho Marx, and admitted the cheap horror flick he was “hosting” was not really scary.

   He went on to conjure up an image of what was really scary: Losing your job, and losing your health insurance, when your kids are sick …

   Now that was ”rrreallly scarrry!”

   Heres hoping for universal coverage, or something close to it, and better solutions than we have for this problem.

   A properly run public option would get this done.

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   Magnaut said, about 1 month ago

   I may be mistaken but I believe that the Clinton Administration with a GOP congress suspended the anti-trust laws to allow for “managed Competition” which lead to the growth of HMO’s. If you believe in “free enterprise’ you would allow Doctors to publish their charges to encourage competition…and you’d let patients buy insurance across state lines.

   there are many things that are simple fixes that shoulkd be done before the whole system is scrapped. Canada went from a successful system of prepaid healthcare to a failed Gov’t system

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   InAnity once again offers a comment without content, without facts and without a discussion point. I still wonder if the imprint on his forehead shows up in the mirror as a ‘666’ or as an upside down ‘999.’

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    believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

    MKitt, thanks for that last link. And I’ve posted link before to Blue Cross’s practice of rewarding its employees in proportion to how much money they save a year by rescinding policies of its customers. One employee got top performance review for saving $10 million in medical claims by rescinding policies for one year.

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    believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

    magnaut, HMOs began in the ’70s, primarily on each coast and then spread throughout country. I had an HMO for a year in the late 70s. The Clinton’s managed competition legislation failed without passing even a single committee. Do you have some source for the claim about Clinton suspending anti-trust laws?

    Insurers can offer a policy in any state in the union today, as long as they abide by state regulations governing insurance within its borders. The GOP proposal is to eliminate state rights to regulate insurance within its borders and create a federal “hands-off” policy of no regulations.

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    Tigger said, about 1 month ago

    The Public Option is off the Table, this is how the Donkeys conned Ms. Snowe into voting for the Bill, else it would have died in Committie.

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    comsymp said, about 1 month ago

    The bill out of the Senate Finance Committee bill is only one of five different health care reform bills being considered. the public option is included in four of them. It’s definitely NOT off the table.

    My bet is, the final bill will include it.

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    d_legendary1 said, about 1 month ago

    Hope so comsymp.

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    believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

    ^^ hope so too.

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    cdward said, about 1 month ago

    ^^^Amen.