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   blackash said, 25 days ago

   Leave it to Oliphant for pure demagogic propaganda.

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   slavetofashion69 said, 25 days ago

   Good lord. Wake up, blackash.

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   motivemagus said, 25 days ago

   Zing!!

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   scottfreitas said, 25 days ago

   Demonizing private business fools all the fools who reject our Constitution’s meaning, nothing new there.

   Unionized Government bureacrats all beholden to the Demoncrat Party will NOT do a better job controlling costs or providing health care services than the private insurance companies.

   Stop muzzling interstate competition among insurance companies, reign in the gd tort lawyers like John “Crybaby” Edwards who get rich suing doctors nonstop, and do a host of other constructive things that gets the government OUT of healthcare (ala the Swiss model), and then get back to me on what sort of plan I want to “opt into”…

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   Madman2001 said, 25 days ago

   The insurance companies have one of the lowest profit margins of any American industry. At least the majority of voters realize (as shown in recent polls) that the quality of their health care is likely to decline if health “reform” passes.

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   hlp54 said, 25 days ago

   When the health insurance companies take their 30% off the top for their ceos and stock holders, and to pay off the politicians, before providing care? Of course a NON-PROFIT will be cheaper and better.
   All people should have food, shelter and health care - get your profits over and above that.
   I’m sure the health plan you want will be for MEN ONLY. Most private health insurance companies provide for VIAGRA but not for birth control. Won’t insure underweight or overweight babies and throw off many who get cancer OR OTHER ILLNESSES. I FOR ONE DO NOT WANT THE CURRENT HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES BETWEEN ME AND MY DOCTOR.

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   cartwrights said, 25 days ago

   If their profit margins are so low, why are they spending millions every day on lobbying?

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   Alan Miller said, 25 days ago

   I so wish they’d up the resolution on these. The little duck or whatever the little commentator is called’s words are so pixelated they’re illegible.

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   cartwrights said, 25 days ago

   Punk (he’s a penguin) is saying, “…And remember, you’re covered unless you make a claim.”

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    bradwilliams said, 25 days ago

    Lowest margins? Ever see a insurance companies HQ? I think they do fine.

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    fennec said, 25 days ago

    I know nothing much about business, but aren’t profits what you have after you pay all the expenses? You know, after the advertising budget, lobbyists, salaries, bonuses, etc.? So the stockholders aren’t making a mint (although they are still making money…they’re not nonprofit co-ops in most cases).

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    av8tor said, 25 days ago

    Yah, why should the insurance companies be makin all dat dough when we can have an Obama takeover and his buddies can make it instead? screw doze companies, put em all on the public payroll and increase the dim o krat votin base. youze media guys shut youse pie holes about dis and the udder stuff dats bad for us dim o krats.

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    Simon_Jester said, 25 days ago

    So says scottfrietas….who has been demonizing a private business all week.

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    dtroutma said, 25 days ago

    The toon sorta’ insults the mafia. While I do have one insurance carrier who has served me well for many years (auto insurance)- recent experience has emphasized just how BAD most insurance companies are, especially unregulated health insurance companies who yes, take their CEOs cut OFF THE TOP!

    It’s a lot like the credit card note I got that the bank’s APR is going up to 30%– wasn’t that once called usury? It just happened to be one of our most impoverished, and bailed out, banks to boot.

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    charlie555 said, 25 days ago

    [Off topic, but A. Miller has a point. Cartoonists have been complaining for years about being squashed in the newspapers. Now they can be HUGE and we can barely read them.]

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    wminfield said, 25 days ago

    If it weren’t for the sign on the door, I would have thought it was an Illinois legislature in session. Doin’ it the Chicago way!

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    michaelwme said, 25 days ago

    cartwrights said

    “If their profit margins are so low, why are they spending millions every day on lobbying?”

    Lobbying expenses are all tax deductible, so are deducted from profits. Get a decent accountant before you criticise good, honest, American businesses, who have almost no profits after paying their lobbyists (but not, of course, their claimants whose claims, thanks to laws put through by their lobbyists, are not legally valid).

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    dtroutma said, 25 days ago

    Minefield- Chicago also gave us Friedman’s economics, and bankruptcy, moral and fiscal.

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    ahab said, 25 days ago

    Ah, the master cartoonist’s sword stays sharp!

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    cartwrights said, 24 days ago

    @ Michaelwme: I assume you’re joking when you talk about “good, honest, American businesses.” That simply does not apply to health insurance companies. And are you saying that no claims made against these companies are valid?