Now the Republicans are sending in irate voters who are disrupting town hall health care reform meetings held by Democratic representatives. At one meeting, someone shouted: What's wrong with profits? That's what a moron asked in the Napa Valley. Too much wine perhaps?
What's wrong with profits? This is what: some things shouldn't be a profit center, because too much is at stake. Competition among insurance companies hasn't produced a lean, mean health machine. Instead it has produced a system of squeezing out the sick and making sure that only the healthy have health insurance. And the salaries. David Klein, the CEO of Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield makes $2.73 million. It's his profit that's at stake!
Ummmm.
Remember those phony demonstrations outside of the ballot recounts in Florida after the 2000 election debacle? It sounds like these phony demonstrations at town hall meetings come from the same Republican playbook.
Now it has been revealed that insurance companies are urging their employees to write to Congress telling them not to reform health care. See the piece in talkingpointsmemo.com.
Read the email sent to employees of Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, explaining to them how to fill in the postcards to their Senators, also posted on talkingpointsmemo.com.
Now take out a pen and piece of paper and send your own letters to Schumer, Gillibrand, and your representative saying that the future of this country is tied to health care reform that streamlines the system, encourages healthier habits, and takes the decisionmaking away from the insurance companies and back in the hands of doctors. I sent mine last week to Peter King, who has never responded to any letter I've sent. Such a dear!
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That's because, unlike the Democrats, they don't control the discussion from above. The Democratic Party has systematically cut the discussion of single-payer universal healthcare out of any discussion in Congress, the White House or healthcare forums. You won't hear about that in the corporate media because they don't want single-payer either.
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