Jerry Flanagan
Jerry Flanagan
afford cannot care crisis health people requiring solution solving
Requiring something people cannot afford is not a solution to solving the health care crisis.
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The drug industry dispensed $30 million in campaign contributions during the last election -- including $1 million to George W. Bush's campaign. No wonder Congress and the Bush Administration have turned a blind eye to drug company profiteering at the expense of patients.
benefit detriment health last looting medicare pumping seniors straw
HMOs and insurers pumping up their coffers at the detriment to seniors is a blight on the Medicare prescription drug benefit and is the last straw of their looting and pillaging of health care.
break companies coverage dare health insurance insure mockery national policy promises sell
This is a national problem. Insurance companies sell you a policy and then they break their promises and they cherry-pick and only insure those that are healthy. Dare you get sick, your coverage is revoked. This makes a mockery of health insurance.
conception devil
The conception of the idea is there, but the devil is going to be in the details.
afford allow cannot care cash executives feed health huge million millions obscene stock time
At a time when 6.5 million Californians cannot afford their health care and millions more are underinsured, it is obscene to allow executives to feed at the trough of huge cash and stock payouts.
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Recent mergers have given the industry a strangle hold over the health insurance market. With fewer pressures for efficiency and no government oversight of rates, insurers have been given free rein to spend more of our health care dollars on overhead, profit, and administration. The last decade of HMO mergers has taught us that when fewer HMOs dominate the health care market, quality goes down, premiums go up, and patients get short changed. Already, 45 million Americans are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the insurers' ransom.
money street talk talking wall
When Wall Street analysts talk about efficiencies, they're talking about more money for HMO profits, not better care.