CIGNA Exec Says Michael Moore Was RIGHT! Pt 2

With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Bill Moyers
• Wendell Potter
• CIGNA
• Michael Moore
• Health Care Reform
• Insurance Companies

[vicschleich]

Moore is wrong. The people under these socialized health care programs pay in Taxes and losses of freedom to choose and keep decisions between you and your doctor. Socialized anything is never the answer. Look at the other things that have taken place in GB since socialized health care. Programs like this create a rabbit hole that ends with the government having its hand in every aspect of your life.

[brynb2]

@vicschleich what other things have taken place in GB? Please elaborate.....

[vicschleich]

The NHS "strongly advises" parents to send their children to fat camps if the government deems them overweight. The NHS has a rationing body know as the NICE. This organization has labeled several cancer treatments as "unnecessary". A girl had her heart surgery cancelled three times due to over crowding in ICU. She died just several days after her last surgery date was cancelled. Funds for NHS are low, there fore treatment has been withdrawn. Government is meant to protect us, not control.

[brynb2]

@vicschleich you mean, like CIGNA denying Nataline Sarkisyan a liver transplant because it was "experimental" and only bowed to public pressure and approved it, hours before she died? Like that kind of control?

[Bricanada]

More CEO's in all industries should come out and be human for a minute or two and blow the whistle on the backdrop crimes to humanity which are going on, not even if it is for the public but for their own conscience.

[Jessecraft1954]

When I was a little kid, I used to love to look at this old theology book because it contains lots of pictures of different kinds of sins and I'd always see the devil standing behind the one committing the sin. I remember one of those pictures was of some people selling snake oil to lots of sick people. There was the devil with his horns. I guess the artist forgot to include Cigna and Blue Cross Blue Shield on the wagon and also some pharmaceutical companies. 

[AngeCord]

I would rather face a "death panel" consisting of government byrocrats than a "death panel" consisting of insurance company employees that gets a fat bonus for not helping you.

[promiseIsaih60]

Moore was & IS right! My husband is from England & ALL his diabetes & heart meds as well as his glasses & dental are ALL covered! Wish to God we could have the same here but the rich politicians will make sure that never happens~ Just so long as THEY get full coverage.

[ControllerOfMinds]

@vicschleich I must really laugh about how you're describing my country - which has got universal/socialized health care. You really have got no idea

[thegoose78]

vicschleich, where are you getting your information? Kalilaaziza has provided an example for you of healthcare in the UK. If michael moore is wrong, than who is right?

[Kalilaaziza]

I live in the UK, we can choose our own General Practitioner, we can choose which consulatant we see, we can choose which hospital we attend. Prescriptions are £6.70, regardless of which drug you need. Prescriptions for cancer patients and other long standing illnesses are free. "fat camps" for children are available free, as are other services, but there is no pressure put on for your child to attend. Its just there if you want it. Its foolish to think that things are forced on you by the NHS

[fixatepvpwow]

Yes they pay in taxes, but we pay out of pocket. Canadas average health care cost per capita is 3500, ours is more than double at 7400. That's because they pay for coverage, and government controlled salaries. We pay more than double because we pay not only for coverage but for; bloated salaries, profit margins, marketing, political contributions, and additional overhead.