Senate no on Healthcare

Senate Finance Committee votes against new government-run health insurance plan.

The Finance Committee voted twice Tuesday against the creation of a new government-run health insurance plan. The panel rejected a proposal from Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) on a 15 to 8 vote, then voted down one sponsored by Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) on a 13 to 10 vote.

Is this good or bad?

Consider these fact from Michael Moore:
1. Six of the biggest California insurers rejected, on annual average, more than one-fifth of all claims every year since 2002. Basically they are routinely denying the services they being paid to provide. That's FRAUD ... but it's California ... so nobody cares ... How about the rest of nation? Is the fraud rate greater or the same (we know it isn't lower).

2. Insurance companies continue to use marketing techniques to cherry-pick healthier, less costly enrollees. Basically selling a product they know the buyer will probably never need to use, thus is worthless to buyer ... Another form of FRAUD. But who cares.

3. Insurance company monopolies, like Anthem in Maine, are legal -- Free marketeers should be screaming about that ... but them thar Republicans a liars about their true beliefs ... and numerous Democrats are joining them.

4. There are no standards of care ... so die if you must ... so long as they make a profit.

As Moore says "We may be slow learners, but the rest of the industrial world has figured it out: Universal, single-payer or national health care systems. That's the reason why all those other countries cover everyone, have better patient outcomes, cause no one to declare bankruptcy or lose their homes because of medical bills, and spend less than half per capita on health care than we do."

"We could do it too, by reducing the starting age for Medicare from 65 to 0. There's still time to act." Which is to say, a third of the nation is already covered ... add those on Medicaid (eliminating that program and all the associated qualification paperwork ... and the real cost comes down to adding those who the insurance firms already know don't need to use the coverage ...

DUH!!!
NOMINAL COST and real savings to those families paying $500 a month, or $6000 a year for nothing but the right to be denied coverage if they ever really need it before they qualify for Medicare ...