I saw this entry posted over at Docudharma and thought I'd share the link to it. I'll post as much as I can, but really, it's worth checking out the entire entry. It's by the user known as FreeSociety.
The total vacuum of any principled leadership from President Obama, has inevitably produced the most directionless, anti-consumer, Insurance Monopoly boondoggle fraud imaginable -- which is now masquerading before Congress as "reform".
In fact, the Insurance Companies are silently doing cartwheels over this, and stand to jack up rates even more, and fatten their considerable death grip over the American public. The people who bother to read the fine print, like Congressman Dennis Kucinich, know this.
Who's to blame?
Well, for starters, Capitulator-in-Chief Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi (who lied to us, and promised "a robust public option"), Max Baucus, .... and the list goes on and on. In other words, The Democratic Party and it's entire leadership structure (do we have any?) created this fiasco all by themselves -- the same people who also want to keep funding and expanding the Bush Wars, Bailout Goldman Sachs and give them (crooks) your tax money for CEO profits, and who blindly support the unconstitutional Bush U.S. Patriot Act.
I also saw a comment by by tahoebasha3 that contained the following video.
This is an excellent means of combating our enemies within the Democratic Party, as well as turning members of the blog community who are queasy about jumping ship on the so-called public option and need that extra push.
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welcome to corrente
please come back again and treat us to your fine blogging!
Kwiatkowski, DCB and I welcome you to the Outer Void
nice to see you migrating here from OL. heh. i won't make the joke i'm thinking right now...
Aw, c'mon, CD, make the joke!
You just aren't any fun any more!
(Or, if I'm in the Midwest, "Anymore, you aren't any fun.")
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Yoda's from Illinois!
I never knew
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
Oh come on, live a little!
I'm a grown guy. I can handle a good, filthy joke. Hell, I can handle bad jokes (which I excel at making).
that's terrific framing in that video
but the 'raise your rates immediately by 25%' isn't quite accurate.
the section of the bill [pg 22] shown in the video is about premiums for the national high risk pool, which is for people who have NO insurance and can't get insurance because of serious pre-existing conditions. premiums for high risk persons are limited to being no more than 25% higher than the standard premium that would be charged for low-risk persons.
so YES, sick people will have to pay 25% more than healthy people would for the same policy, and NO, premiums for healthy people are not going to be raised 25%.
[always keeping in mind that the insurance companies will probably try to jack up their rates as high as possible before all the reforms are supposed to kick in, but that's a different issue from the stated 25% in the bill]
Thanks for the info!
That's definitely worth including in any video.
Insuring only healthy people...until they get sick NOT insurance
"so YES, sick people will have to pay 25% more than healthy people would for the same policy" - By hipparchia
Which of course defeats the purpose of insurance doesn't it? Insuring only healthy people until they get sick, then dumping them is And don't talk about risk, if that were the case, Texans would pay 1.5 time as much because they are so much fatter than the rest of the nation as a group...they don't, it's political.