Who's watching Frontline?

[proud2BlibKansan]

It's about health insurance.

I am crying.

This makes me so angry.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

1. The doctor says the insurance people get too much money.

The insurance guy says the doctors are paid too much.

In the meantime, people die.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. 20,000 a year

They told the saddest story about a young girl with lupus. :cry:

[Olney Blue]

5. Yes, the lupus story was heartbreaking.

[SharonAnn]

10. She died because here in Tennessee, our Democratic governor cut her off Medicaid

(which is called Tenncare here). I don't agree with what he did, but I understand what he was dealing with. Runaway TennCare costs were going to bankrupt the state. He needed to be a transformational leader and it's just not his strength. He's a good administrator who was the founder and CEO of a health insurance (or HMO?) company before he sold it.

He tried to get benefits reduced so that costs could be managed, but a "progressive health care activist" sued and wouldn't agree to any changes. So Bredesen shut down part of it, removed some people from the rolls, kept Tennessee from going bankrupt, and some people died. And some are still dying.

It is an ugly environment here for anything progressive. We've turned into more guns and no taxes state which is blest by Gawd.

[Olney Blue]

12. Yes, I know Tennessee very well. Went to college there.

Pretty state, but not progressive at all.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

6. I know.

It's criminal. It's evil. No one should have to die because they do not have insurance.

The thing that really killed me about her case was that she rang up over $900K in hospital ICU bills because they wouldn't pay for her meds.

[dflprincess]

11. The doctor at least provides a service

the insurance company just takes your money and does its best to avoid holding up its end of the contract you have with it.

[Pavulon]

2. Dangerous Times

this debt system is a threat to the system as a whole.

[Captain Hilts]

3. The one I was watching was about the deficit. nt

[malaise]

7. Some very upset DUers

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5366247

[Lint Head]

8. The insurance carriers are scared to death. I know many people

that work in the insurance industry. They have bottomless buckets of money and lobbyists working 24 hours a day.
It will take a major effort to guarantee the American people the right they have to health care.
:dem:

[rurallib]

9. I couldn't take it.

I just hate the senators that are shielding these bastards.

[Vinca]

13. I was so angry at the insurance people I wanted to jump through the screen

and go for their necks. Like the CEO who is a doctor who said that of course everyone deserves cancer treatment, but if they can find a tiny flaw in patients' histories, they're not going to pay for it. And the other CEO who said that "of course" everyone should be covered and when asked why he doesn't do it he said becaue he doesn't have to. The real wolf in sheep's clothing was the woman insurance lobbyist - the one who was at Obama's seminar. She's all smiles and kumbayah on the surface, but beneath the surface she's plotting what loopholes she can get into any legislation that will screw the masses. They view the 47 million who might be required to buy into insurance as an opportunity. 1/6th more of the population to gouge.