Nation's Hospitals Agree to Forego $155B in Revenue

TELL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAT YOU HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF MODERATES AND CONSERVATIVES IN OUR PARTY SABOTAGING PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION

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SIGN THESE PETITIONS FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE.

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that sound you hear is the cringing of those of us with private insurance plans when we hear how much this will cost us now.

Cost-shifting at its best. Its amazing how well Obama plays the shell game. First Pharma increases their costs over the last 6 months and then pledges $80 billion in decreases and Obama buys it. Now hospitals. Who's next up to lie to us all?

visionbrkr, that sound we hear is the panicked scrambling of the axis of evil, insurance corporations, drug companies and the American medical association.
They are quickly throwing out meaningless concessions because they know a public health insurance program will mean the end of their monopoly.

I was at a barbecue on the 4th, talking with a couple I hadn't met beofre. We're all in our 50s, so there was some moaning about the health issues of that decade.

This couple tells me they pay just over $2K a month for private health insurance for the 2 of them (they run their own small business). They tell me only one company would even offer them a policy. They tell me that their pre-existing conditions are not covered (by 55 or so, everything is a pre-existing condition)so they are picking up a lot of uncovered expenses.
I figured they'd be ready for helath care reform, right?
No, they worry that they will have to pay to insure a lot of other people!
They are missing the fact that *their* premiums will drop and their coverage will improve. They are missing the fact that now their insurer can drop them at any time between now and 65 and they will be UNINSURED until they qualify for Medicare.

Insured people need to look at what they are paying and what they are getting and realize that this system we use now is a mess. About the only people with well-defined coverage at a reasonable cost are government employees. That program pays for itself and should be available, at cost (what the employee pays directly plus what the Feds pay in), to everyone in this country.

TELL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

To quit spending money that TAXPAYERS DO NOT HAVE!!!

TELL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

To quit spending money that TAXPAYERS DO NOT HAVE!!!

Let's spend less on war and defense and more on health care. Let's screw the rich for a change instead of the poor taking it up the wazoo. Let's beat the insurance and drug companies at their own game. Call your representatives. Let them know you count.

to margaretmeyers:

WHEN IT COMES TO REPUBLICANS, YOU CAN'T PUSH A ROPE AND YOU CAN'T TEACH A DOPE. THEY DON'T MATTER BECAUSE THIS TIME WE DON'T NEED THEM. ALL DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO IS STICK TOGETHER.