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  • I will never give private health insurance a dam penny of my money... Go @#$^ yourselves you greedy pigs.... Doctors and hospitals also need to start charging less.. .. Problem is these greedy bastards OWN our politicians ... THAT IS THE PROBLEM!!!!

  • Gold plated flatware??? F YOU!!!

  • I just recently lost my job. Without insurance my 3 monthly rx are arouned $2,000. Who can afford that? I can't. I have 4 more days of rx left. Missing 1 day of rx may cause me to go into a condition known as status epilepticus--that being have a seizure over and over and over until you get treatment or die. I've been there once. Luckily I was at work when it happened.

    Healthcare is a human right!!! Canada can do it. France can do it. UK can do it amongst others. Why cant the US?

  • You could also call this "Death for Riches!" Fucking murderous CEOs. Good work BNF. I like real people telling real stories.

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  • THANK YOU DAD, THAT YOU EMIGRATE TO CANADA NOT USA.

    I WOULD BE DEAD LONG TIME AGO DUE TO MY PRE EXISTED CONDITIONS

  • Good you get this out to the public. Cigna's a bunch of frauds. We care.. my god, they don't care! All they care about is themselves! While I'm in favor of Health Care reform. to force people to pay for their own health care of fine them, disturbs me. There's so many people out there now, who've paid thru the nose, on their health care premiums, they can hardly afford to keep their homes, or pay their basic bills. Yes, let Health Care reform go thru, but don't force people to pay or be fined

  • I like this information. thanks boss............

  • Pathetic.. Truly pathetic... Mr and Mrs politician.... You know it's pathetic because you have government run health care... pretty much sums it up.. Can you say contradicting ...  Jokes on the American people.... PROBLEM is the joke is not funny and people are dying....

  • Everyone in Washington knows that Paul Ryan has been told he has a million dollar a year lobbying job for the health industry if he gets his health care law passed.

    Here's how it works-he lies through his teeth to get it passed-the healthcare insurance industry makes billions more from vouchers while still denying it's customers health care.

    Meanwhile this nigger gets a cushy one million dollar a year job as a lobbyist. Way to sell out your own people Ryan!

  • Ed Hanway is guilty of crimes against...

  • DO NOT LIKE OBAMA HEALTH CARE ? TRY GOP NO CARE !!!

  • Healthcare is too important to be manipulated by private health insurance companies. Some (or most) might say that they would never allow the government to stand between them and their doctor, but that is exactly what the private insurers do - for profit. In addition to eliminating private insurance, we need to determine WHY healthcare is so expensive (something rarely - if ever - discussed in Congress) and find ways to reduce those costs across the board.

  • @ahoog69

    Why is healthcare so expensive? How else would an insurance executive afford to live in a gated community similar to a redoubt in enemy territory? A lot want to protect their looted wealth. Because slavery is illegal corporations need to find another loophole to reduce workers' spending power and potential to improve one's position, and one such loophole is big insurance. It is meant to be a pretext for siphoning off the working and middle class' wealth.

  • @ahoog69 I agree. The right-wing propaganda machine, while fighting healthcare reform, tried to convince people that there would be "death panels". Those death panels did and do exist in the offices of insurance companies not the government. People accept from the private sector what they fear from the government. I also agree that insurance is a secondary problem to the out of control costs of direct healthcare. But gee, the free market will take care of it. Right?

  • Deny care or dump the sick, just to maximize profits? That could never happen in America!(Irony if you don't get it, so no flamming please)

  • I'll be sure to never go to Cigna . er Sickna

  • Do you have known that kaiser permante is a Nonprofit organisation.

    Good for their tax, bad for people

  • FUCK PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES! I HOPE THEM PEOPLE WILL ROT IN HELL!

  • I don't support Obamacare because I think its long-term effects will be negative (tax spikes which hurt the economy, ridiculous waiting lines such as those in the UK under the NHS, etc.) its constitutionality is highly dubious, and the majority of Americans have stood against it; but there is no doubt that health insurance company execs need to be held accountable for the unethical and tyrannical way they operate. People on the Left and the Right can unite in agreement over the need for reform.

  • @ElasticGiraffe Wait times are a reflection of the number of doctors per 1000 people. The USA has 2.4, Canada 2.2, Greece 4.6. How does Greece have more doctors then the USA and be not for profit? And don't say just look at their economy, everybody's economy is in the toilet right now thanks to Wall Street. Their Medical system is one of the best in the world and they could lose it, why does America with all it's money only have 0.2/1000 more then Canada? Please explain these things.

  • Insidious as all this is, there is a far bigger problem. Most managed care organizations and insurers are not on the hook for these costs because they transferred their insurance risks to health care providers. So doctors, hospitals, nurses, and nursing homes get flat payments regardless of what their costs are. This make these providers tiny, inefficient insurers leading to poor profitability, high losses and severe constraints on patient benefits.

    "Professional Caregiver Insurance Risk"

  • Question: How can a person who has been diagnosed with cancer, apparently a serious form, get an individual / family policy with any insurer, including Blue Cross, or did you get on a GROUP policy in california?

  • @forwardmover

    If you read the whole story you would see. I went to washigton to lobby for a patient bill of rights in 1995 so people with pre exsisting conditions could be allowed to change insurance. To stop the abuse of people. Under emergency regulations people can change Insurance when the employer feels it is necessary, my husband worked for the US Goverment. My family was lucky, not everyone is so lucky.

  • @JoJoshua1

    Well you know I work two jobs. One is supposed to give me benefits, but not until they hire me permanately. I'm just a Temp now. So I need a second job, and I don't get any benefits.

    Maybe I'll try to work for the Government so I can get coverage.

  • Have you just read about my recent experience with my Insurance company. I would be happy to share how they tried to bully my doctor into not providing the appropriate care, and share those bullying documents. marked NOT TO BECOME PART OF THE PERMANENT MEDICAL RECORD>

  • @JoJoshua1 Who is the person that asked that documents NOT TO BECOME PART OF THE PERMANENT MEDICAL RECORD?

  • @forwardmover Directly from the insurance company. The army of people they employ to bother doctors and patients alike.

  • @JoJoshua1 They bullied my doctor too, when I got injured on the job at a company who used Cigna as their worker's comp insurer, to not allow me to stay out of work.. My doctor even gave me a doctor's sign letter saying I needed to stay out of work, to heal up. When I brought it into work, I was promptly FIRED by my company! They were also trying to force my medical doctor out of practice, in the state of CT. Which figures, since CT is an insurance haven. Many insurance co. have bases there.

  • Is it possible for Greenwald and Brave New Films to interview you about your experience with Anthem Blue Cross, California largest private health insurance company, to provide a fair & balanced perspective?

  • Google on: Two women battle the insurance giant (Digital Journal, Posted Sep 29, 2009 ) ... where it says:

    "After many hurdles today Godfrey is with Blue Cross and couldn't be happier.

    "Blue Cross has always treated me right. ..... The good news is that the Godfrey family is now healthy and have health care that they can trust.

  • Would be interesting to find out what ties greenwald has to California trial attorneys, many of whom feed off of litigious attacks on doctors and insurers? We all pay for this, due to this parasitism, which is large especially in LA.

  • When is greenwald coming out with "Hungry for Profit" "Clothing for Profit" "Housing for Profit" ? "Horny for Profit" Wake up folks. This loser is a collectivist capitalist who wants to be another rich capitalist doing the Michael Moore thing. Why does he not do a documentary about his friends in the porn industry?

  • HERE IS QUOTE: After many hurdles today Godfrey is with Blue Cross and couldn't be happier.

    "Blue Cross has always treated me right. I want to let it be known that corporations own our country, people have no voice," she adds.

  • @forwardmover

    Perhaps that was because I had been Well. Recently however I had to be hospitalized. Day one fax to doctor market NOT TO BECOME A PART OF THE MEDICAL RECORD. Does not need to be in the hospital. 

  • @forwardmover

    Day four and five two more faxes. MARKET NOT TO BECOME A PART OF THE PERMANENT RECORD. does not need the kind of care you are providing. Luckily I have a good doctor, not one employed by CIGNA. Yes this time I will go to washington with these letters. Why do people not want to face the facts.

  • @forwardmover

    Why not tell people the rest of the story, instead a scrap of the truth. People should read the story for themselves.

  • @JoJoshua1 This unfortunate incident happened 10 years ago? According to news on the internet, as you stated, you are now with Anthem Blue Cross of CA (Wellpoint) and are happy with them. (Digital Journal Sep 29, 2009 by KJ Mullins) If that is true, can you elaborate on that?

  • Sorry to hear about this incident. Glad you are well. In the late 80's and early 90's, CIGNA and others tried to emulate Kaiser. Your treatments were initially denied by Medical doctors, who so sometimes make mistakes, and not CIGNA, insurer. According to news on the internet, you are now with Anthem Blue Cross of CA (Wellpoint) and are happy with them. If that is true, will you be doing a video about that? (Digital Journal Sep 29, 2009 by KJ Mullins)

  • This money is a fraud. Have you seen the latest MoveOn RepublicCorp scam video. Another commie caught lying. This lady is lying or retarded. CIGNA is an insurance company and does not give anyone medicine; generally only physicians can do that. The Bolsheviks are looking to destroy private enterprise and property, and have picked insurance as their target. Profit margins are approx 2%, and some years zero. Unions seek maximum "profit", as do doctors, lawyers etc. Can you see thru this scam?

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  • @forwardmover You my friend are very misinformed Cigna owned 29 wholly owned health clinics where they employed the doctors. The people should simply go to jail. I am that person, and since it happened to me I certainly know what I am talking about.

  • Doctors and lawyers are making big money. This who insurers pay, folks. Why does this Commie Capitalist  Greenwald not do a video about his Mercedes Benz Beverly Hills doctor and lawyer friends? Cuz he wants to be a Michael Moore fat cat. Wake up folks. Greenwald is a scammer.

  • @MoneySpan Everyone pay out of pocket...the welfare you give the insurance companies will buy you any ER visit for most of you. 5 years of coverage not paid can net you 20K in a bank account, getting interest.

  • @psynema Stay in school. Get your GED. Learn to write with complete sentence, or at least in a way that will allow people to comprehend what you are trying to say. If you have a disability, sorry about that. Just being honest.

  • @forwardmover Learn to read, how about that. 

    and honestly,

    "Learn to write with complete sentence"...PKB

  • @psynema There is a difference between typos and being incoherent, no? Based on your writing, now it occurs to me that English might not be your primary language.

  • @psynema Sure thing ... DMF

  • @forwardmover You're not sorry about anyone with a disability. You cud care less about them! You are batting for Cigna.. the king of insurance fraud! Health insurance, is where, if your health is bad, your insurance pays for your dr's treatments! Gosh, who do you think you are really fooling with these posts anyway forwardmover. Where you moving forward to now... ? the Holllywood Hillls. How's your Bentley driving? ROTFLOL

  • CIGNA profit ratio = 1.5%%  So what! What about the losing years? Pay attention folks, this is a scam video. USA is full of "ambulace chasing" mostly democratic trial attorneys who can and do %$#& insurers in the ^%$ if they renege on insurance policies. This video is a Marxist scam. These bolsheviks want you to destroy capitalism so they can getting that politburo working again, Greenwald is Commie!

  • Much marxist class envy propaganda, including the Young Butch Hybrid aunt Jemima. Jim Rodgers has a great video out on youtube where he talks about how capitalist China is now, compared to "Communist California" How I See the World Today | Jim Rogers. Wake up America!

  • The attack on profits is all part of the Fabian Socialist agenda, puched by reich, Obama and other NWO commies. These power mongers (like Stalin) want your support, and will have you before death panels, and make fertilizer out of you in future years. Its part of the beast's plan.

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  • The American System is so bad because former CEOs or top-rankers of banks, insurance, pharmaceutical, housing, food industry... you name it, end up working in law making or government jobs. Who's interest do you think they'll defend? Theirs (as a shareholder), their former company (lobbyists) or yours? Each time something good goes to congress, you hear them scream! Then they throw money on telling you how that 'good thing' is bad for you. That's how it works.

  • A Jewish journalist proudly exposes his own race's capitalization of the porn industry: Nathan Abrams on Jews in the American porn industry

    Just google on the above.

    Greenwald = Political Porn Peddler

  • @forwardmover ALL U HAVE TO DO IS LIVE UR LIFE AND WE WILL ALL BE HAPPY. YOU SEE OLD MAN NO MATTER HOW MUCH KICKING AND SCREAMING U DO UR WHITE RACE IS DWINDLING, ILL BET U HAVE A FEW DAUGHTERS THAT ARE SUCKING BLACK DICK AS WE SPEAK. U WILL BE DEAD SOON, A VICTIM OF TIME, AND ALL YOUR STUPID POLITICAL VIEWS FROM FOX NEWS WILL ALSO JUST BE DUST IN THE WIND. UR THE MINORITY NO MATTER WHAT U HAVE TO SAY, LOOK AROUND U, DOES IT SEEM LIKE THERES MORE AND MORE"SLACKERS"? MAYBE THAT MEANS LESS GREED?

  • @sactowncr1minal HeadsUp, trailer or garage dweller. All CAPS is considered just plain ole stupid. Looks like Obamacare crapola is either gojng to get repealed or not funded. Howdee! Thank God for Sarah Palin and all those real Americans who seems outnumber the slackers and deadbeats.

  • @forwardmover well ill tell u i live neither in a trailer nor garage, i rent a small 2 br home for 800 a month, because i refuse to have my life crippled by debt taking out a mortgage. but old people like u would have young ppl like me believe that corporations r looking out for me so they will loan me money with no hopes to repay it. but its ok, insurance companys r looking out for u man, pay 800$ outta pocket so some dude can make 23 million and not even be a doctor, then get denied cover!

  • @sactowncr1minal Congrats on your living within your means; that is smart. Don't know of any corporations looking out for you or me. In CA you can start your own corp for $100, if you want limited liability. Insurance policies are contracts, so ne honest on appls and read the policy, including arbitration section. SAC is full of crooks, many lawyers, most of the State Assembly. And, health insurers, the ones left in CA biz,avh approx 2% profit ratio. So much for that liberal media crapola.

  • @sactowncr1minal Something tells me you might be related to Maxine, forget that Ho's last name. Are you related to here. I am sho you don't know who your daddy is, but are you related to that commie Ho?

  • Profits of health insurance companies (when they have profits) are on average 2% of revenue. Just google on it. Go to your state website and many have much of this information, including loss ratios. And, don't lie to an insurance company about any pre-existing conditions, when the doctor says you need more tests. This is what socialist slackers do. Get insurance beforehand.

  • Communist Scam video. First person, lady, says CIGNA offers her medicine? CIGNA does NOT offer medicine or care. Doctors do. Farmers make profits too, as do doctors, auto mechanics, etc. Don't fall for this scam. These communists and slackers want a welfare state. Do you want USA to turn into Cuba?

  • Quite a scam of a video from Greenwald, American communist. Why doesn't he do a documentary on the Jewish PORN industry? Or the Jewish trial lawyers who start most of the class actionsuits? He can possibly interview some relatives. Or what about a documentary on the wealthy federal government union employees who now make over 150% of what average American private employees make. As far as I know MOST people want MORE money. So, WHY attack free enterprise which COMPETES for dollars?

  • Jesus is my Health Insurance!

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  • The Best excuses that the republicans can ever come up with is childish name calling. calling something that will help mankind childish names because they have heard it from ; Fox News, Rush Limbaugh,Glenn Beck & The GOP. All brought by ; insurance companies, Banks & Big Corperations. it's very sad that the people that votes Republican is working against there own interest. i guess it have to effect them personally for them to "WAKE UP !!! "

  • @slayerfan84

    While reform is needed if anyone learned what was in the bill you would learn very little has anything to do with reform.

    I do not need 2000+ pages to eliminate pre-existing conditions - allow anyone to join their municipalities group health plan.

    To stop the abuses in this video - a simple patients bill of rights AND ENFORCEMENT

    But sadly the sheeple believe the crap the news puts out about this bill being reform... it is a power grab...WAKE UP, and maybe read, yes read!

  • In America, Law abiding tax paying citizens must pay for health care, But if you commit a crime and you go to jail, you get that AWESOME Free SOCIALIZED UNIVERSAL Health care! Memo to sick Americans who can't get health care, rob a bank, you'll get about 5-10 years in jail, along with a free bed, free food, and Free SOCIALIZED MEDICINE Courtesy of the U.S. Government!! God Bless America, where Jail sounds like a better option!

  • Does anyone know why every Republican voted against health care reform?

  • @Slayerfan84 Because Obamacare is absolutely idiotic! Do your homework. Actually, Obama's key advisers told him NOT to push Obamacare! Go to realclearpolitics and you can read the polls. This is a major reason Democrats will be in a bloodbath in November. 85%+ have great insurance, rest have welfare. Get educated.

  • Get educated? So you really believe that the 85% who have health care, have adequate care? You must be well educated yourself. But do let me point out that you Failed to mention the fact that 700,000 Bankruptcies are filed each year because of medical bills. 44,000 People die each year because they have no health insurance. You already have to deal with a 3rd party before seeing your doctor, its called the Insurance company.Get educated eh? Yeah sure I can see how educated you are!

  • @Slayerfan84 Just read the polls. Consider stopping video game playing, and move out of the folk's garage. Most of the world males don't act like sissies wanting Obama to wipe their rear. Maybe you can get youtube to reinstate your channel, slacker.

  • @forwardmover Yeah the polls are going to provide the much needed information right? So we are suppose to ignore the fact that 700,000 people file for Bankruptcy, let me repeat that again for you elementary morons out there, 700,000 Americans file for bankruptcy every single year because they can no longer afford the ridiculously large insurance premiums! Moron, how bout you check how much did Blue Cross raise their premiums from one day to the next you idiot!

  • @Slayerfan84 Blue Cross is a service mark for an association, not an insurer. Which BC affiliated insurance company are you referring to? be prepared to intellectually anihilated. Idiot check coming!

  • @Slayerfan84 You welfare slackers need to leave the cocoon, and stop making stuff up. Many people who don't buy insurance spend it on drugs, and then have kids like you. Stop listening to America's pig (Moore), who's making millions off the leftist flake niche, along with that dyke at MSLSD. 

  • Making stuff up? Really you uneducated misinformed pathetic excuse of a voter? So Harvard University lied? oh no wait let me guess, you are going to call every report that presents facts, such as, the Harvard University study that states that "44,000 Americans die each year for lack of health care. You are going to call this Published Peer Review 'Liberal Bias' Right? Stupid Fuck! Go listen to Rush Limbaugh or some shit you moron, You voted for that Retard Sarah Palin didn't you? don't lie!

  • @Slayerfan84 update: harvard is alma mater of worst president we have ever had.

  • @forwardmover Ah yes, lets see, who do I credit regarding information from Harvard University, 1 a respectable source that clearly stated that Harvard University is one of the nation's top schools, or 2, some moron who probably voted for Sarah Palin and now has no clue about the current issues so now he or she decides to attack President Obama on anything he or she can. Well, Tough choice! LMFAO! Moron!

  • @Slayerfan84 Bill O'Reilly has a Harvard degree. so, OK Harvard has at least one real smart grad. No wonder he is so succesful, and can work at Fox. A conservative populist with street smarts, unlike a ivory tower spineless bobble head / egghead like krugman.

  • @forwardmover Bill Oreilly smart? Nah! Not one bit! You can't be when you base your show on lies. Well actually you can be smart and still lie to morons who buy into his crap. Bill Oreilly is good at misinforming idiots like you! Your so called Harvard Grad Bill got owned on his own show by a high school kid! You don't have to believe me, type it in, in the search box! search for, "Bill Oreilly gets Pawned by High School Kid"! Priceless!

  • @Slayerfan84 People USUALLY get paid what they are worth. $10 million 2008 salary, just from Fox, who can easily pay this, because Fox is top-rated by Americans, especially those with jobs. So, advertisers, who sell things, like this. O'Reilly writes books for kids, such as "The O'Reilly Factor for Kids," last year's best-selling nonfiction children's book. (Forbes). Have you read it?

  • @forwardmover Why would I read trash like the Oreilly for kids. What After Bill flips out and curses out his staff WELL DO IT LIVE! I am then supposed to let him tell me how to raise my children? You truly are an imbecile! Hey Rush Limbaugh Makes Hundreds of Millions too, and don't get me started on the dissemination of Misinformation that he offers to morons like you on a daily basis!!

  • @Slayerfan84 When you pick your Blue Cross insurer, we can get down to some nitty gritty real financial facts. And, then I can show who you, and everyone else here, what a real trash-talking intellectual pinhead you are. Like most lefty airheads. Are you ready to have that bowel movement yet?

  • @forwardmover Pinhead? Really, is it because I, unlike you, have actually provided real numbers and facts from credible sources. And all you have done is pull crap out of your ass with nothing to back it up with. Look you moron I am no Economist but when 700,000 Bankruptcies are being filed each year, I think that it becomes imperative for officials to take note on what is bankrupting American Tax Payers you fucking shit for brains!

  • @Slayerfan84 Youtube still hasn't changed its mind on giving you your channel back? Did you tell your mother, so she can stand up for you? O'Reilly interviewed Obama. I missed your interview.

  • @Slayerfan84 slackers can come up with an excuse for socializing anything. did you get your free burger king wopper today? Its not fair that some people have above average IQs, are not lazy, and eat so much filet mignon. Wahhh! Sob sob.

  • @forwardmover

    But there are people who are disabled who can't work. Is that fair they should go without. Every other industrialzed nation has public healthcare, why not the USA.

    And Great Britain and Canada do have a better healthcare system. This I have first hand knowledge on.

  • @forwardmover

    You seem to have a lower IQ. I bet that if you were on a bus you would not give up your seat to a blind or disabled person.

    Whatever happened to the needs of the disabled comes first before profit?

    If you were in the world trade center, I bet you would only be interested in saving your own ass.

    Think outside the box. Its not just about you. Its about all Americans.

    You are the one with the lower IQ.

  • @pluto4847 Quite a bit of speculation. Do you take illicit or psychotropic drugs? Pluto IS way out there. Not a coincidence? This anti-selfishness campaign is an old game created by manipulative slackers. I am supposed feel guilty when I put my needs before YOURS? This ruse has been busted. Clue time!

  • @Slayerfan84 you have to realize that 44k out of 300 million is no big deal, considering over 3 million are illegals, and probably 10 million are 28 year old video game playing, marijuana smoking slackers, who also drive without auto insurance. welcome to reality.

  • @forwardmover ITS EASY TO SAY UNINSURED PEOPLE SPEND MONEY ON DRUGS U FUCKIN BIGOT FAT PINK SON OF A BITCH. U WILL BE IN A HOSPITAL FOR A HEART ATTACK SOON AND UR PRECIOUS INSURANCE COMPANYS WILL DENY U COVERAGE , EVEN THOUGH U R FIGHTING TOOTH AND NAIL FOR AN INDUSTRY THAT WOULD TOSS UR SORRY ASS ASIDE JUST TO NOT HAVE TO PAY

  • @sactowncr1minal Hey, call Obama and tell him to up the age from 26 to 36, so you can be on your folks insurance. Buy why live in a garage or trailer, playing video games or skateboarding. You are almost over the hill, and might look for work, no?

  • these motherfuckers want us to think that the free market ideal is a good enough reason to keep these bastard fed and cozy..you know what? health isnt a commodity...its a basic premise for a functioning society.period.there is no way to refute this. removing money from this aspect of the capitalist machine can only IMPROVE health and indeed remove a tremdendous stress from people which will then in turn improve their health even more.its exponential.what idiot cant understand this?

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  • If even capitalist Ireland can provide universal health care for it's people, why can't we? The nature of free-market health care encourages these practices because actually treating people means a loss of profit. I'll never get health care in the current system because "high functioning" autism is a pre-existing condition that can't be blamed on a poor lifestyle. The sooner we join the rest of the world in providing non-profit universal health care, the better.

  • insurance is a SCAM! there are certin things in life that should be non profit...

  • @jjonathan360 perhpas if they were to make health insurance more of an investment opportinty where you get a set amount back for using the insurance left and become and individual partner in the system (i.e. stocks) while your basical policy covers you at 100% bor basic services and hospitalization. Though it was never about insurance it was address true medical costs and perhaps the industry should based rates on a sliding scale based on ones income keeping it affordable for all.

  • @jjonathan360 Howard Dean said it best. All they had to do was expand Medicare for all (i.e. up the premiums from our paychecks) and so long private healthcare. Instead the bill just seemed to keep supporting a corrupted industry that is highly biased based on risk and zip code you live in.

  • @shaithis45 i couldnt agree more

  • @jjonathan360 unrestrained capitalism = facism and controlled murder. people for some reason worship at this alter and condemn millions to die and suffer needlessly for it. corp of all kinds need to be checked and have alot more regulation. but this industry needs to die completely. and forever. the bottom line is people not fucking money. if our national economy isnt strong enough to withstand a temporary hit from removing this corner than maybe the whole thing needs to be scrapped.

  • @runelord37 People die, everywhere, in ALL types of economies. Get over it. So, why blame it on liberty, private property and free enterprise? Actually, capitalism is the opposite of fascism. Why does USA have so many ignorant slackers? How do you like the new Capitalist china? Just google on it.

  • Obamacare will not help. There are 47 other nations where they live longer than we do.

  • @josephdupont Yeah and the majority of those 47 nations have socialized medicine.

  • SHAME SHAME SHAME THIS IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA the #1 country in the world??? My tuchas(tush)

  • @mikecher123 America IS NOT THE NUMBER ONE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, NOT EVEN FUCKING CLOSE.

    When will you Americans stop pretending that you are the greatest, every single news story, every single revelation, every single international statistic SAYS YOU ARE NOT NUMBER ONE!

    You used to be number one, AND YOU COULD DO IT AGAIN, but you as country are in denial. Admit you've lost your standing and the world AND GET BACK TO WORK AND REBUILD THE USA!

    GET BACK, GET BACK TO WHERE WE ALL BELONG

  • @mikecher123 Number one in killing people maybe. Not even in the top twenty in health care. We are 37 last time I checked and lower rated by some standards.

  • @Textynn

    Known as the richest country in the world, yet does nothing for its people.

  • These Thiefs, will all go down the drain soon thanks to Obama, I wish all those cigna executives will die slow & painfully hahahahaha

  • We have an infant mortality rate of about 630 babies per 100,000 per year. Evidently the Republicans want to kill 27,000 babies each year. They claim to be pro-life but they don't care about the increasing number of newborns who die each year.

  • Just OPT OUT of anything

    oblummacare..

    Its poison..

    Nobody wants it...

  • Look, We can all agree NOONE ever wanted blummercare....Never did never will...

    It be POISON...

    118 NEW structured HI PAID salaried bloated IRS STYLE buorcracies that get between you and your physician and serve to only interfere and skim all your premiums to exorbidency as they have no function in HC and only serve to self perpetuate themselves and bloat government...

    To cut medicare a HALF Trillion w/ bomacare and to throw your hands up and say if ur against it we're done is pure dumb..

  • I have had enough now of the TROLL under the bridge here.

  • jes PAY for ME and my Byotches an all dem kids be poppin out Man wid all da paychecks and all to da man fo da HELF CAYA now man....it all be worf it man...all be worf it..

  • I pay about $1000 a month.

  • Am I the only one broke due to the fact that I pay so much for insurances?

    Every month, I felt like half of my paycheck goes to insurance companies. I pay $870 a month for health insurance. I pay $165 for life insurance. I pay $154 for home insurance. I pay $210 for car insurance. I pay $90 for flood insurance.

    I need to get into the Insurance Business.

    What's next? Do we need Divorce Insurance too? I bet there is such a thing.

  • @iforgotmyscreenname1 At least those teabaggers don't have to pay taxes for state run health care - they just have to pay premiums that will do nothing but go up - up - Up, and AWAY!!!!!! Unbridled greed has absolutely NO checks or balances. I would mention that they have no transparency, but they are so arrogant they don't care. Entire call centers dedicated to denying benefits to PAYING MEMBERS!

  • Look chumps,,just start payin the blomadon fo da half caya NOW..I got a mess "o" byotches that I popped out tons "o" junkie babies wid that I spend my life in court denying cuz I need you to pay fo me now...so blomadon be fix my problems wid all yo money so git going wid da half caya NOW! chumps

  • That's capitalism.

  • What I don't get is why Robert Greenwald is defending a plan to make everyone by a corporate health insurance policy. The insurance companies aren't going to be regulated with a damn, and instead we are all just going to be forced into buying their policies.

    How did Brave New Films get suckered into supporting this? watch?v=M8esFJHLZ4o

  • EAT THE RICH!

  • @Balldez After Nov 2nd, with repeal, No free lunch/ ObamaCare welfare, including for loose women and illegal aliens. Slackers, you will need to get jobs. Put up those video games and get some coffee.

  • Republicans response to this video and this crisis is to engage in the same simplistic name calling they've been engaged in since Herbert Hoover's presidency. Anyone who wants to reform the health care system or anything else is a "communist." FDR was a "traitor to his class."

    Amazingly the Republicans haven't changed their arguments in 80+ years, but so many millions are profoundly ignorant of history that they continue to buy their crap.

    I hate Obama, but I think I hate the GOP worse.

  • I was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor in June 2007. My insurance woulldn't cover any of the costs of treatment since the oncologist determined I had had it for quite sometime. Insurance considered it to be a pre-existing condition that I had not reported to them. So, I am bankrupt because I paid for my own treatment out of my own pocket.

  • @anotherparadox - I'm so sorry you had to deal with such a health crisis. Over 700,000 Americans have to declare bankruptcy each year because of medical costs. None of our indusrial peers force their citizens tinto that situation. I wish you well. Take care.

  • REPEAL the TAX & JAIL Mandate bill nobody wants..

    Send it back to "real"senators next time..

  • I am packin approx $400,000 worth of med problems which I self medicate & have under control presently..

    I have no health Ins....Even cheap Insurance would be cost prohibitive for me, so I need to OPT OUT....

    I have to fight to be able to OPT OUT but shouldn't have to since I have no birthright to fix or participate in any program for any person for any reason against my free will..

    If, however, the gov't FORCES me to buy Ins, YOU will GO BROKE paying for me I guarantee that..

    Kill the BIll.

  • Your post doesn't quite make sense. If you have $400,000 worth of med problems that you're paying for why would you not want to buy insurance and if you can't afford it, why would you not accept a subsidy so you could afford it? Prior to my health insurance being canceled because I was no longer profitable, I know they lost money on me since my medications cost more than my monthly premiums. Continued...

  • Regardless, if you're able to afford $400,000 worth of medical problems, then the smart thing to do would be to have health insurance so you don't end up spending yourself into bankruptcy. So, I have a hard time believing what you write.

  • @anotherparadox you ever hear of this thing Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers were fighting for called a Public Option?

    watch?v=M8esFJHLZ4o

  • I'm sure that the money you'd need for health care is probably paying for that "self-medication". Do you smoke or vaporize that?

  • i want to address this to the people who supports the Republican & conservative democrat blue dogs ! if u really think that this party is the party of christian values then u really need to know what a true christian is. list of what the GOP does that prove they are not christians. lier,don't care for other's,racist , cares only for the rich and not the poor."HE WHO GIVES TO THE POOR WILL NOT WANT, BUT HE WHO HIDES HIS EYES{FROM THEIR WANT}WILL HAVE MANY A CURSE.PROVERBS28:27 THE REP ARE CURSED

  • the liar is the pres and all his commi friends!!! instead of fixing the problems ,they are bringing us all into communism, this is all spelled out in a few books and they are following a book written by a convicted felon. who buy the way is a congresswomans hubby! and was at the whithouse at the kast party they threw! but go ahead you blind sheep! follow you commi party into the depths of hell!

  • bush was the biggest commi then any president. with that patroit act. taking our civil rights away from us. wire tapping, reading people's mail and then syping on you. torture. Yep sounds like communism to me and if you really want to get into it . HOW ABOUT THE CORPORATE SOCIALISM UNDER THE REPUBLICANS. and you believe these crimals that have been lying to the american people.you must be pretty weak minded to believe those devils, if you do you are a sheep and a chicken coming home to roost

  • yes the bushes were a problem too and anyone who voted for the patriot act should be tried for treason! that being said obammy is going above and beyond what they've done and at record speed! ask yourself who is really running our country?

  • Some people don`t have a conscience. They worship money and will sink to the lowest most evil and sinful to live like kings and queens. What could be worse than misleading and stealing from sick people? They are worse than those who once sold snake oil. The United States needs to pass healthcare reform and put these criminals in the street. These people have a lot of blood on their hands. One day they will stand before God and be judged for how they treated others to fill their own pockets

  • disgusting absoultely disgusting!!! This is a classic example of what happens when CAPITALISTIC REPUBLICAN PIGS and BIG BUSINESS run health care.

  • The denial of claims by the "bad" insurance companies are less than 15%, while the denial rates of MEDICARE is over 22%! So its actually the government who is denying more people healthcare then the "bad" healthcare industry.

  • Comparing those two numbers doesnt tell ANYTHING. Think about it.

  • It's mostly the evil catholic church that has made a war on poor Americans that owns most or parts of these evil companies. I believe this was one also.

  • "will be prohibited from denying coverage for pre existing conditions" ???? Why would anyone buy insurance if they can do so after a health problem develops?

  • Instead, they should make it portable from your employer, because otherwise you're in an untenable situation when you leave your job after having been treated for a condition.

  • Agreed. Insurance should be personal. Employers should have nothing to do with it.

  • They'd also have to prevent the insurance companies from dropping people. "Why not insure someone if you can just drop them when they get sick?

  • True. But insurance companies are paying for the treatment of millons of people(some very ill) every year and not dropping them. I have to wonder what is unique about the ones being dropped.

    How are these contracts written? I would assume "you can't drop me no matter how bad things get" is a feature of these policies. Otherwise you are correct. Why not insure anyone if they can just be dropped whenever.

  • Oh yes, they will drop you,

    uhm the worst cases, are those who are longtime ill,

    The company will loose alot of money

    and they cant do that, they have to make profit.

    So they hire, someone who will investigate you, and try to see anything that is wrong with your application, soo they can drop you off.

    its really a horrible and cruel thing,

  • I was just reading, there was this man,

    who paid his premiums for over 30 years,

    to his insurance company, and worked that long,

    but suddenly was hit with a heart disease,

    and they told him, he was born with it,

    so they could not cover him.

    How bitter would you be, after paying them for 30 years, and they wont cover you, when you need them most.

  • "The only two things Republicans hate are liberals and the truth!"

    - Randi Rhoads

  • Question...If insurance company knew insured had cancer ,wouldnt the drs that treated her of known for years to? Cigna has denied so many claims its criminal i agree!!!!

  • The republicans keep saying "we don't want a bureaucrat between you and your doctor", well right now we have assholes like Cigna between us and are doctors!!! A system where greed is the primary incentive will never work, and that's why Capitalism needs to go down!!! It's just too bad hypocritical liars like Shaun Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh have convinced the unsophisticated rednecks of America that the Government is out to get them.

  • So its only a bunch of dumb rednecks that believe in liberty over equality. Not everybody votes based on what free hand outs are in it for them. Billionaire socialists vote to have their taxes raised and middle(even lower) classes vote against government handouts. They both do so because of principal, it does not make either one of them stupid.

  • I used the term "rednecks" in a tongue and cheek tone (even though it probably didn't come across that way). Ultimately I was criticizing people like the Tea Party protesters who are out there opposing beneficial health reform because an extremist like Glenn Beck told them to.

  • umm but since this one's promoting health insurance reform...

    Get to an issue then. Has anyone read the 1000 page bill?

    go ahead thumbs down or w/e but i say that if you read the bill then you would also be against this "health reform"

    sure we need reform but not what Washington's proposing. Companies like cigna need to be stopped but i've never seen government run things better.

  • the guy in the beginnings a hypocrit >.>

    Buddha on the top shelf and a bible right below it >.> >.> >.>

  • Not at all. Both were great teachers. Not everyone is a Christian or a Buddhist, yet still respect the teachings of others.

  • @bardic68

    you guys gotta stop reading soooo late in the message, i had to read my own message to see what i said. i'm not gonna say anything on the topic. stay current!

  • i never heard of cigna until now >.>

  • corporations should not have the same rights as individuals. @ least the health care industry will no longer be except from anti-trust laws.

  • i'm sorry but the republicans seem to think our healthcare system is just fine. Well guess what? Most insurance companies do not cover vaccination for H1N1, which is now a worldwide pandemic. This among other things is what republicans for some strange reason want to keep in place while citizens continue to drop dead.