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eridani

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8. Which would be fine, if only insurance companies added any value

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Sun Jan 22, 2012, 03:25 AM

Jan 2012

They don't. They are effectively engaged in mass murder for profit, preventing as much utilization by sick people as they possibly can. We still need health care reform, meaning that we need a public non-profit way of making sure everyone, no exceptions, has access to health CARE.

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please...stop calling it "health care reform" it was never that [View all] SwampG8r Jan 2012 OP

Connecticut's insurance oligarchy got some props from their boy Lieberman. phasma ex machina Jan 2012 #1

delaware probably had a lot of input too SwampG8r Jan 2012 #2

The Insurance companies were losing money. Unemployment affected them also, probably sabrina 1 Jan 2012 #3

i have been a manager SwampG8r Jan 2012 #4

I wish insurance companies had gone out of business. Lint Head Jan 2012 #6

does that talk about SwampG8r Jan 2012 #7

Agreed. I've always referred to it as "Health Insurance Reform" BlueDemKev Jan 2012 #5

Which would be fine, if only insurance companies added any value eridani Jan 2012 #8