"Never before have so few with so much promised to take away so much from so many and then laugh their asses off as the so many with so little vote for the so few with so much." A James Pence Quote
"American Politics, a sport for the rich and enslavement for the rest of us." A James Pence Quote
Some say the Health Care fix is in and from what I can see it is. When Single payer advocates are snubbed and left out of the debate and the greedy insurance companies are allowed to participate, that tells me the fix is in.
Politico President Barack Obama and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) rarely pass up a chance to snub single-payer health care — a term that means a government-run system.
Politico The best way to get half the pie is ask for the whole pie,” said Katie Robbins, assistant national coordinator of Healthcare-Now, which will not endorse the public plan but acknowledges the strategy. “It is like horse trading.” Healthcare-Now doesn’t have a seat at the White House negotiating table with other interest groups, including its chief nemesis, the insurance industry. So single-payer advocates have resolved to make their cause hard to ignore. Advocates say that by making the government the sole administrator of health care, the U.S. could save billions of dollars annually on reduced administrative costs.
Private insurance administrative cost is 30% according to Morning Call.
The Morning Call Health care is a human right and access should not be dependent on being employed or being able to afford private insurance. A private health plan costs a family on average $12,000 per year. But if efficiency is all the naysayers care about, let's compare private insurance to our premier publicly funded system: Medicare. Medicare wins hands down. Private health insurance wastes $350 billion every year, enough to pay for high-quality comprehensive health care for everyone. Where does that money go? With private insurance, 30 cents of every dollar pays for marketing, billing, hassling patients and doctors, profits and astronomical CEO salaries; Medicare overhead is just 3 cents on the dollar.
Of course we can't forget the greedy CEO's and their gaudy salaries!
Forbes David B Snow Jr CEO Medco Health, $21.76 million, 5-Year Compensation Total $36.29 million. Dale B Wolf CEO Coventry Health Care, $20.86 million, 5-Year Compensation Total $61.91 million. Michael B McCallister CEO Humana, $20.06 million, 5-Year Compensation Total $60.64 million. Ronald A Williams CEO Aetna $8.88 million. Trevor Fetter CEO Tenet Healthcare $5.80 million, 5-Year Compensation Total $19.08 million. Stephen J Hemsley CEO UnitedHealth $4.00 million. John H Hammergren CEO McKesson $44.91 million, 5-Year Compensation Total $94.59 million. Miles D White CEO Abbott Laboratories $44.76 million, 5-Year Compensation Total $76.47 million. William C Weldon CEO Johnson & Johnson $15.41 million, 5-Year Compensation Total $49.15 million. Jeffrey B Kindler CEO Pfizer $5.76 million. John C Lechleiter CEO Eli Lilly & Co $5.13 million. James M Cornelius CEO Bristol-Myers Squibb $5.06 million.
Get the picture?
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