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ajl1239 commented on the diary post How Libby, Montana, Got Medicare for All by Kay Tillow.
Also, where was CIGNA to help these people? Where was Aetna? Where was WellPoint?
I thought those bastards care deeply about our health. That’s the question I’d like to hear a journalist ask their profiteering CEO thugs!!!
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ajl1239 commented on the diary post How Libby, Montana, Got Medicare for All by Kay Tillow.
Barack Obama: setting up single payer is “too hard.” If we didn’t have the current (horrible system), I would prefer single payer. Looks like you just need to say you want people in Medicare and it happens pretty fast. Heck, I’ll even let the low-level insurance bureaucrats from Aetna and CIGNA man the new Medicare [...]
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ajl1239 commented on the diary post Ezra Klein Says Government Health Programs Work, So Why Not Expand Medicare? by Scarecrow.
Very well said!
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ajl1239 commented on the diary post Ezra Klein Says Government Health Programs Work, So Why Not Expand Medicare? by Scarecrow.
Agreed — the mandate without a public option is positively disgusting.
Obama doesn’t care…
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ajl1239 commented on the diary post Ezra Klein Says Government Health Programs Work, So Why Not Expand Medicare? by Scarecrow.
On balance, I think that means that Medicare becomes the “public option” for everyone — either you choose Medicare or you choose a private insurer. That’s basically how the German system works — you can go public or opt out and go private as a young person, but opting out and going private as you [...]
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ajl1239 commented on the blog post Health Insurance Industry Loves That You Can’t Afford to Use Your Coverage
Agreed — thank you!
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ajl1239 commented on the blog post Health Insurance Industry Loves That You Can’t Afford to Use Your Coverage
Well, then doctors need to “man up” — put on their “man pants” — and demand a single-payer system. In a fight with big insurance, doctors win…easily. Too many doctors claim to “hate insurers,” but then they love the fee-for-service system that lets them bill big money for little things.
It’s time for doctors to put up or shut up on single payer.
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ajl1239 commented on the blog post Health Insurance Industry Loves That You Can’t Afford to Use Your Coverage
Google News “Aetna rate decreases” and see what pops up under “did you mean?”
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ajl1239 commented on the blog post Connecticut, Vermont Move Forward on Their Own Health Care Options
This post, I fear, does not accurately depict Sustinet.
It will combine by 2014, wait for it, the following pools: Medicaid, CHIP, State Employees, Retirees, Uninsured Individuals and/or Individuals or Families that want to “buy into” the program, Cities and Towns, Non-Profits, and…eventually, even large state corporations that choose to participate.
Sustinet is more than a basic insurance plan for the poor, it is a robust public option that will ultimately cover 1/3 of the residents of the state of CT, and probably more once corporations in the state realize it’s a better value than the bastards at Aetna or Cigna.
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ajl1239 commented on the blog post Connecticut Informed That Private Insurance Exchanges Are Bad Deals for Consumers, Taxpayers
You guys should really check out this site: http://www.universalhealthct.org/
Sustinet will be a truly ROBUST public option: it will pool Medicaid, CHIP, state employees, retirees, non-profit employees, individuals who want to buy in, small businesses, non-profits…and eventually, if they so choose (which, they will, because it will be affordable, high-quality coverage) CT corporations all together in one big pool that some estimate will eventually comprise 1/3 of CT’s insurance market.
Talk about sticking it to big-profits insurance right on their home turf. There’s no reason that other states shouldn’t pool all their state/gov’t programs together and allow individuals to buy in other than the insurance lobby saying “no.”
Luckily, CT has a super liberal governor and legislature that won’t screw this up. Luckily, Joe Loserman can’t screw this up either.
