Fight Back - 7 Families Stand up to the Health Insurance Lobby

Seven families from around the country appeared at the same hotel as the health insurance lobbys annual State Issues conference in downtown D.C. today to recount the mistreatment they and their loved ones have endured at the hands of the private health insurance industry. Outside the Capital Hilton, 600 hundred supporters gathered in solidarity, holding large signs with messages like ITS A CRIME TO DENY CARE and BIG INSURANCE: SICK OF IT.

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[whatnowgop]

LMFAO, So you think private insurance companies are going to reform themselves?

[antonscottgoustin]

If we let the K Street lobbyists and Max Baucus call the shots on health care reform--the US will continue to slide further downhill. Congress--please listen to THE PEOPLE, and not Max Baucus and K Street!

[unelmitchell]

demonpreyers you are half right about the watered down healthcare but it won't be just obama's fault it would be 100% fault of the republicans and the blue dog conservatives & Joe Lieberman that have sold there souls to the big insurance companies. both blue dog democrats & republicans are selling out the american people. they are the true unpatroitic Nazis. that are selling out the american people.

[unelmitchell]

we have one of the worse VA system in the world. just like the usa healthcare system. its all about greed. and the conservatives can't even see that they would perfer war over people's lifes. if we get rid of this war we can have more then enought for healthcare. but this country can't afford to have anymore republicans

or conservative on both sides running this country. we have seen what the out come was the last 8 years. i am a indenpendent & i hope that i never see that never again !!!

[unelmitchell]

i agree with you more then 100% about those conservatives. they are so blinded from the truth. they can't even see that fox , beck ,limbaugh and the whole party is brought by these big companies. that is how all of them made there money.just from being puppets for the big companies. and these conservatives don't check this out for themselve. well if they did check it out they will just blame others for it and not seeing the truth for just that the truth. keep up the good work disturbed341.

[unelmitchell]

not true all of the republicans r brought & just half of the democrats the ones that calls themself the blue dog democrats they r just as worse as the republicans. i am a indenpendent & i know who the true unamericans are, those that working with the evil insurance companies & aganist the american people. they have a website that u can check to see how much the people in congress & sentors or taking. 100% of the republicans are brought & just half of the democrats, the "Blue dogs" sellouts !!!

[actualizeU]

It sounds like the insurance companies have a monopoly and politicians in their pockets. A lack of choice is one of the biggest problems that must be overcome. In Va Well Point and Aetna control 85% of the market. My rates have doubled in five years, and I'm healthy. I can't afford that kind of increase. BTW, I did read the article on insurance profits. it focused on 2008 data, to get the low percentages. Profits were down for everyone that year.

[jeffmagic32]

The policies I speak of are heavily influenced by politicians at the state level. In my state, the biggest insurance companies have teamed up with special interest groups to make sure I have to pay for things I do not need, such as prenatal care. Women who intend to get pregnant should get policies that cover prenatal care. For everyone else, its a giant waste of money and yet another limitation on our freedom to buy what we want to suit our own particular needs.

[actualizeU]

The federal government doesn't set up policies, does it? Don't we all pay for coverage we don't use. Thank God I don't need chemotherapy, but I"m happy it's covered for the people who do. That's really the theory behind insurance, spreading the risk over a large pool. We really are interdependent. We need roads, schools and healthcare so our society can flourish. Caring for the sick is a basic moral teaching,

[jeffmagic32]

The government is smack dab in the middle of the way. Here in CA, I have 3 health insurance options, and all 3 include prenatal care and a host of other things I am biologically incapable of ever needing. Contrary to the propaganda coming from the white house, health insurance companies are less profitable than the average company in America.

[actualizeU]

thanks.. Please excuse the guys on here.. they get all excited watching Fox and have to come here and hate on everyone because the gubment is out the get them. They don't realize they are just pawns.

[actualizeU]

The government has been out of the way. That is how we have arrived at the status quo. Health Insurance companies have even been exempt from anti trust laws.

So how do we fix it? The Republican answer is let them die quickly, they cut into the profit margin.

Is human life worth less than profit?