Former Cigna exec describes industry's "close ties" to conservative media, to which "they feed the talking points"
August 14, 2009 11:31 pm ET
From the August 14 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360:
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Palin's book and Obama's bow: a media week to forget
Media Matters: The Palin chronicles
The Friday Rush: A series of conflicts
They're vehemently opposed to innovation, invention and competition ...unless it's their own. (note: I'm and inventor and entrepreneur and I keep finding them behind some of the nastiest 'only the big boys are allowed' policies such as patent protection, other intellectual property, and how entrepreneurs are taxed more than passive capitalists.
So when you read about "free market system" they're not talking about Adam Smith's vision. In fact, re-read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations where he specifically warns against mercantilism which requires two key parties: A controlling government, and a merchant class which has sufficient wealth to direct the government to protect the interests of the merchants in the guise of protecting the government's wealth in the form of gold. Few people read this far.
Adam Smith promoted the concept of the wealth of nations is not the gold in the hands of the government (or the merchant class) but in the nation's capacity to produce valuable goods and services.
However, private insurers could offer specialty insurance, as they do in France, England, and elsewhere for people who may want special services such as cosmetic surgery or concierge hospitals.
Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, etc etc
The Master/Slave relationship is essentially the same in the end.
Any system Mankind can contrive, Mankind can also corrupt.
He was on Bill Moyers about a month ago. If you want to watch an amazing interview--watch this.
Go to Bill Moyers.com for video or the transcript.
Do you know what the medical loss ratio is? Wall Street knows. Oh yes!, they know. It's the way that Wall Street rations care. Why do so few know about it? ...Maybe we should ask the corporate media?
Try watching him, you might actually learn something.
Moyers conflict of interest
Being a deep running democratic shill means you never have to say you're sorry or own up to your conflict of interests for that matter!
More on the saintly B. Moyers
Thanks to the investigative work by Discover the Networks, I've got the whole damning rap sheet on Moyers, topped by this juicy and incriminating nugget;
# Host and Producer of many programs and series on public broadcasting
And this maniac walks the streets ???
http://www.truthout.org/081509Z?n
The Gorilla Dust of Health Care
Saturday 15 August 2009
by: Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
The attacks on Bill and Hillary Clinton's plan for health care reform back in the '90s were a tiptoe through the tulips compared to the current assault. That's because it's about a lot more than attempting to ease the financial pain of illness - or a socialist government takeover of medicine, depending on your point of view. Organizers (such as former Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey's FreedomWorks), special interests and people who are just plain mad as hell have turned it into a shrill national referendum, reigniting age-old prejudices and fears that bubbled at the surface during last year's presidential campaign.
Is it Glenny talking, or the money?
Grassley brings Glenn Beck’s book to town hall meeting to ‘pass it on.’
Beck is getting the money and he's feeling he has power! Dang,my question though is why is a learned man like Sen. Grassley falling for his BS. Is this an indication of Grassleys intellect or opportunism?
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Flag@whitehouse.gov
Quite a stretch of the crazed imagination to project like you do.
You wingnuts, always about three steps behind the humans.
You're posting false information regarding a program wherein people were simply to send the false e-mails so that the White House could counter the lies that people like you are forwarding to people like me? The WH doesn't CARE who sent the lies, they just want to know what the lies are.
Parnoid, much?
You used something hosted on rense.com as a source ??? (You must know they are largely controlled by Alcoa)
Anyway, I do agree with you to counter with Bush's domestic spying/informant program(s). Ugly, disgusting, very dangerous business, that. Was and will always be an un-American/anti-American undertaking. One instance of it will never excuse or legitimize another.
Ashcroft may have hoped for a snitch program but Obama actually got it done! Thats hope we can all believe in:)
And I just love his transparancy -- isnt it great the way he said he'd put bills up online for 5 days prior to debate so the public could read the issues?? Do you feel deceived, sunshine?
Snitch sites,death panels,government takeover!?! You seem to argue against your own best interest while promoting profit of the insurance company over your own self-health interest.
Can you name one advanced industrialized country that has what you call death panels? Can you name a socialist country that has death panels? You cons are being duped, and the sad part is you enjoy it. Your being played to go against your own interest yet you continue to chew at your limbs.
Amazing is too soft a word for your actions.