president: insurance for all!
insurance: YES!!
insured: i’m sick
insurance: um…maybe not
wall street: YES!!
this is fucked up. single payer please
F you United Healthcare.
You came late to the party. Joined years late and now you’re whining that you’re not the party queen.
I’ll take BC/BS coverage over yours any day of the week!
And THAT’S why you’re losing out!
The problem with United Healthcare is that it can’t compete in a market it’s completely uninterested in. Surprise, surprise. Here’s the LA Times’ Michael Hiltzik’s excellent analysis.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-united-health-obamacare-20160408-snap-htmlstory.html
Thanls Tio. Hiltzik has done some of tje best reprorting on this
Well, not too surprising. They’re not creaming the market with a guaranteed profit and now they’re having to think about what they’re doing.
It’s entirely understandable they’re having to pull out of the states with the highest rates of poverty, low public health indicators, and conservative dominated politics.
The CEO now realizes he can’t get the exaggerated bonuses and salary as in the past, so screw everyone.
well here’s what we cou;ld do tell the insurance comp’s to go pound sand and do like every other civilized industrial country has done and have plans like England Canada norway Germany france etc etc
Single payer’s what I wanted and I wished Obama had tried while he could, but even with a democrat legislature I’m not sure he could have. That said, hopefully what we have will lead to a relatively painless transition from insurance companies to medicare for all. An alternative might be like Germany supposedly has with several privately run but very regulated companies that people can choose from.
Hey, it’s competition baby. Creative destruction. Customers with skin in the game forcing insurers to be efficient. It’s real market economics, not monopoly capitalism, the way it is supposed to be. The free market fundies should be celebrating.
As Bernie Sanders said at his rally in Knoxville Iowa, he ( Bernie ) helped to write the ACA as it is because it was impossible ( there goes your Obama didn’t try theory) to get congress to I go along withh that idea. Of course the biggest source for all of this single payer / Medicare for all hype today is Bernie. Also Bernie has done nothing to work for others down ticket that support single payor or any of his other signature arguments. Some revolution when your only effort is to destroy those wanting to take steps in the right direction knowing you can not take one huge jump. Progressives need to remember the words of Hubert Humphrey, it is better to have bread without butter than to hold out for butter and end up with neither.
All major legislation like this needs some tweaking. Some tweaks to keep in mind: 1) public option (maybe start with states where private sector gives up or goes monopoly) 2) Medicare buyin for older folks
Re 2), I suspect the population with the largest percentage for whom coverage is still unaffordable are 60-64 year olds just above 400% FPL.
I can put up with his mild BS but his supporters are really starting to piss me off. Especially the BS articles in Huffpost, a recent was by Danny Glover against Krugman, and especially in the comments.
“Insurers” should not be a part of the healthcare system. They add nothing, and only exist to increase the bank accounts of the insurance companies.