Comments on: Will 2009 be a Year for Health Care Reform?

By: chad

chad — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:09:41 +0000

for myself and my wife our health ins. cost has increased over two thousand dollars for this year . thannks allot blue cross. increases such as this will help welcome a public option .

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:50:21 +0000

I’ve been interested in taxes for longer then I care to acknowledge, both on the individualized side (all my employed life-time!!) and from a legal viewpoint since satisfying the bar and pursuing tax law. I’ve furnished a lot of advice and righted a lot of wrongs, and I must say that what you’ve posted makes impeccable sense. Please persist in the good work – the more individuals know the better they’ll be armed to comprehend with the tax man, and that’s what it’s all about.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:49:35 +0000

Since a “public option” is so terrible, let’s cancel all “public option” coverage for our omnipotent legislators. Love that Free Market

By: John J.

John J. — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:19:33 +0000

Source:
Will 2009 be a Year for Health Care Reform?
Just so you know where I come from, my brother is one of the 47 million in this country without health insurace because he has a “pre-existing condition”. Rejected because his cancer treatment might cut into the insurance company’s executive bonuses.
Please watch the Bill Moyers You Tube excerpt on Health Care Reform:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8IeZHZRwC4
And when your company holds it’s annual “health care fair”, ask your insurance representative what would happen if you lost your job. Then ask what happens after your “Cobra” period runs out. Assuming you can afford those premiums on your unemployment benefits.

By: John J.

John J. — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:10:12 +0000

Source:
Will 2009 be a Year for Health Care Reform?
All we need to know about Health Care Reform and the for profit insurance and pharmacutical companies is exposed in this excerpt from the Bill Moyer’s Journal.
See the lengths these companies will go to keep the status quo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-M10jDkmm0&NR=1
Part two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv1FwOCNoZ8

By: kathy

kathy — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:27:21 +0000

I think that they should not touch the health plain becasue it might hurt people in the long run. and they really need to think about it before it go to far.

By: Kenneth Majerus

Kenneth Majerus — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:12:15 +0000

I am a healthy middle-aged man. I don’t need much from you, and I feel sorry for those that do. I do not think that as an insurance company you are working in my best interests, or that you will. You are a business and built to make money, andu that there is little effective competition. If you want to keep my business, you’ll have to do much better, because I’ll move the minute my doctors do, or as soon as another company provides me a better option.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:19:05 +0000

Mike S Says: June 4th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Great. Medicare is going bankrupt and we want to use it as the model for Obama-care. And, by undercutting private insurance by 30% we can destroy an industry at the same time. Yeah!
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You are sadly misinformed like I have found with most people who think the insurance industry is a legitimate business or that they only want to survive through competition. Or they are just there to help us and the rising costd are because of law suits, and so on. Now the truth. The insurance industry is the boys club and has very little to do with competition and even less to do with helping its policy holders. They are about huge profits. The point of single payer is to drive costs down and when there is real competition that is not motovated by profits these big companies have no choice but to become more efficient or go out of business. I am angry, not so much at you, but for the greedy people out there feeding people like you false and misleading information. I have only told you a tiny amount of what you need to know to be informed.

By: Theodore H. Barrett

Theodore H. Barrett — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:32:13 +0000

Has anybody done a list of the porfits of say, the 10 largest Health Inusurance companies?? I strongly suspect that the fraud in the Medicare industry and the Earned Income Credit for income taxes far exceeds these profits. Point: The so-called bad guys- the Insurance industry- pays taxes on their profits but the real bad guys – the millions commiting tax and medicare fraud don’t ( the EIC is not taxable income and the medicare fraud bad guys don’t report their ill gotten gains. If I’m correct, how in the hell can the goverment hope to run a Health Insurance Company??? Please, THEY CAN’T DO IT!!

By: Mike S

Mike S — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:36:10 +0000

I’d like to write an article for your blog. Please let me know if this would be possible. Thanks!