Obama pissis off america.... Again

[A Black Falcon]

Did you read my last post, Weltall? You honestly think that it's a good thing that healthcare companies answer to Wall Street, not to what their patients need?

Did you hear how recently one large healthcare company announced that they were going to be dropping 650,000 people from their rolls not because they did anything wrong or because the company was losing money, it actually made a big profit last year. Instead, it was because their profits weren't high enough to satisfy Wall Street expectations, so the best way to up profits was to cut people.

Or how about all the people who get paid to, every day, find ways to drop peoples' policies as soon as they actually get sick and need them?

These kinds of disgraces are the kinds of things that should never, ever happen. Yet if Republicans get their way, they will continue to happen into the indefinite future. And that's why reform is so important... and why I think the public option is best, public companies have utterly failed.


As for costs, the Senate bill as it is might not do so great, no. That's because of how almost completely crippled the public option, which is the only real way of getting the private companies to put any effort into controlling costs; as it is, they benefit from out-of-control costs, so they have no interest in doing so. Only public competition might, and I do mean might, get them to change.