Carl Bernstein criticizes as "nonsense" media's deference to "insurance industry" in health care reform debate
July 27, 2009 9:53 am ET
From the July 27 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:
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They have taken a legitimate discussion into a spin zone of government interference when it is really government protection and relief!
Most hospityals are non-profit entities. Doctors charge for services, but that's INCOME, not PROFIT. And I won't begrduge the DRUG-COMPANIES their due of profits, since the engineer the medicines and devices that doctors use to treat us. (IOW - they SUPPORT, and CONTRIBUTE to providing, health care.)
The insurance companies, and their pursuit of profit, does the opposite: They make MORE money, the LESS care they provide. The current model could only work if they were non-profits and required to provide coverage, never drop customers, cover pre-existing conditions, etc...
Note: No one is asking that representatives of the health industry downgrade in service or pay.
This initiative is to stop government overspending and misuse.
If they wanted coverage or spin offs, how about "GOVERNMENT MISUSE AND FRAUD." How much of that 24 trillion would that be, 8 trillion maybe?
If they wanted coverage or spin offs, how about "GOVERNMENT MISUSE AND FRAUD." How much of that 24 trillion would that be, 8 trillion maybe?
The problem is that "misuse" is entirely dependant on who you talk to. One man's "pork" is another man's salary. As for "fraud"... Exceptiong when a few billion mysteriously disappears, unaccounted for, or (perhaps) are found in some dude's freezer I think you'll have a hard time showing (Any)Trillion dollars worth.
At that point, where I was being successful in passing policies that would allow my interest to swell and accounts to grow, I am haulted. ALl that you have to do is follow the money. In what era do people grow in worth. This will tell you what that individual or group is involved in. Look at the arguments being raised?
Health Care Reform is not being challenged because it is a bad idea, you can see this in the lies they use to argue it. It is being challenged because of the profitting hault it would create to those who pass the policies. Give me a calculator and some figures and I can show you the amount.
The President is under seige about Health Care because of his war on drugs which is real and active, and his investigation and revisiting of policies that are inept, to say the least. He is tampering with the sophisticated method of embezzlement, OOPS, I mean government sanctioned!
GIVE ME SOME FIGURES AND A CALCULATOR AND I WILL POINT YOU DIRECTLY IN THE PATH OF WHAT IS USEFUL, WHAT IS MISUSED, AND WHAT CAN BE SALVAGED. SOMEWHERE IN THE LINES OF 3 TRILLION- 8 TRILLION.