Rachel Maddow Talks To HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius About Outrageous Health Insurance Hikes
18 February, 2010 MSNBC
Tags: insurance, Secretary, health, Outrageous, About, Maddow
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What’s the deal FNC? Well said as always my friend. I concur in totality! You have done an outstanding job here on YT getting information out to the masses. I sent this video to everyone I know on YT! I have yet to see any of them post a word! NOT LOL, looks like my social group on this thing just got shorter. One thing is for certain, we can’t force people to care about something so important. Keep up the good work regardless my friend!
@MyRiseToHonor The sad thing is, my friend, my videos only truly get large views when I use titles with content such as “PWNS” or “So and so SLAMS person X” or videos with heated arguments. It is that which seems to get people’s attention and not substantive videos like this, but I still upload them because people like you and me like the information and not the sideshow stuff.
A mere 37, now 38 comments ONLY on this video shows the bamboozlement of our society is far past the point of being successful! We’re truly fucked!
D, I don’t love mine, and it’s not because of my personal experience because I am the perfect bill of health, it is my mother, who was a teacher for 30+ years! She has a mild case of type 2 diabetes. She was told by Blue Cross Blue Shield of AL, that they would cover her, but only after a calander year of enrollment with them. Until then, she will have to pay Health Partners of MN, and BCBS of AL! That is about $1, 000 a month for one who actually did something positive for society!
Reform needs to happen. TORT reform, the removal of government mandates and cross state line coverage. This is what most people want. The insurance co’s are a business, they don’t cover pre existing without higher rates just as if you burn down your house and try to get fire coverage after the fact. It’s a business. Rates and premiums go up mostly due from frivolous lawsuits. I love my health care and am happy with my fees.
D, at least you know that. That bamboozled percentage I previously mentioned doesn’t. Many don’t want the Government messing with their social security or Medicare. ROTFF, Reagan once stated that Medicare would push us towards socialism! LMFAO, the tactics are clearly the same today. AGAIN, Ins. Companies are jacking up premiums and denying coverage in some of the most economically downtrodden states in the Nation! Government Death Panels are the last thing we have to worry about right now!
D, I call that bamboozlement! This is specifically the case when what you say is clearly being done Right Now by Ins. Companies fattening the pockets of politicians on The Left and Right! What is crazy about it all is Ins. Companies know that a certain percentage of Americans have bought into the Government Backed Death Panels that kill old people and tell disabled children they can’t receive coverage! LOL, they find themselves jacking up premiums and denying coverage while this is going on?
1 fact: 10,000 people a year die in the UK from cancers? that have almost no deaths in the USA.
“Free” means longer queues which often result in death.
And “free” means everyone pays via taxes.
Also, the USA health system suffers from excessive Government regulations, which leads to higher prices.
If you want to learn a bit about how a truly free market system can work - watch this video by John Stossel:
/watch?v=rJ8SkS0kOe8
@dijhili
Difference in Culture sunshine.
Over here we believe life is precious, over there life is a commodity so cut out the Insurance Company Rhetoric that Government Healthcare is bad is pure Bullshit.
The American Military get FREE HEALTHCARE, where’s the Death Panels? lol
You have a Heart Attack over here you will be treated, no questions asked, no forms to fill out.
As for your people going to America for Healthcare.. There are American’s going to Inferior Cuba and Canada too. ;-)
Overcharging makes them great surgeons ? LOL….
The government already owns Medicare and Medicaid.
@dijhili
LOL, Bullshit, America has pioneering Surgery that only THOSE that can folk out TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS which I might add they require through DONATIONS to get that pioneering treatment makes your argument fail.
They have those great surgeons because they OVERCHARGE their Customers.
The Overwhelming Majority of the UK are SATISFIED as polls have suggested with their Health service.
You Fail! Bet you get Government Owned Medicare.
US Soldiers do as well.
Yea, that is why people that can afford it come to the US to get medical treatment. Your “fine”system is mediocre at best.
@dijhili
LOL Healthcare over here in the UK if you crunch the figures is CHEAPER than what YOU pay for your Healthcare over there.
“why should? I help you?”
Why should anyone help you? It’s called Humanity.
I like how Christians talk of Charity in America but a TINY percentage of your Taxes and it IS only a small percentage we pay over here you grumble like Ebeneezer Scrooge. :D
@dijhili
We have a Government run Healthcare System and it’s worked perfectly fine for 70 YEARS!
No Death Panels, just allot Nash Fash Republican propaganda.
Without a “pool” of money how are you going to pay that expensive Dr. bill? Are the tax payers supposed to pay for your bill? If you are fat and smoke, why should I help you?
they might not be called “Death Panels”, but when a group of politicians decide who gets coverage or not and at what cost, what would you call them?
Not true. Conservatives and the “Tea Baggers” want reform. They want the removal of government mandates, the ability to shop across state lines, and most of all, TORT reform.
people seem to be protesting everything the government does these days?
M#, if what you say is the case, it blows up everything we are currently seeing! Yes, they have a monopoly on the market, and more than Bill Gates in his! The Blue Dog Deomcants and The Neocon Republicants and Tea Baggers are good with it staying as is, which is clearly not acceptable. Many are in the pocket of these companies. That being the factual case, and if they ALL stand to gain more with reform as you claim, why would these companies back elected officials who speak out against reform?
@mashed107
Exactly! Cut out the Middle man and you make Healthcare allot cheaper.
It Costs less over here when in the hands of Public Health Groups.
Well, when the insurance companies write the reform bill, it is in control of government and those companies. What should exist is a free market, where doctors can provide care outside of the health insurance model. Instead, we have huge govt tax subsidies to that health insurance model, and the choice is with the companies, and not the patient.
There is no competition allowed between insurance companies, per government law, meaning that they don’t have any incentive to keep their prices low. If left to the free market, we would have a much better system.
Hitler would have advocated a complete government takeover of health-care, too, you know– just so he could deny care to those he thought were inferior. Health care should be decided between the doctor/nurse and the patient, and no one else. Insurance companies shouldn’t even exist.
The health care companies are the ones that wrote the ‘reform’ bill. They will see nothing but record profits if there are mandates that requires you to buy insurance from them with other people’s money. This isn’t socialism, but Mussolini’s type fascism (definition: corpoate and govt interests linked).
The only solution is the free market in deep contrast to what we have. Do you know there are many laws that restrict and eliminate competition? No wonder they enjoy monopolistic type profits.
FM#, Nicely done! I’ve been referencing the latest Saw movie for some time now. You know, Saw 6 was the least popular out of all of them! LMFAO, why am I not shocked! It actually came with a sound message, and it was based on real time issues in this country! From the opening scene to the end, and it would seem most Americans missed it! NOT LOL
It is utterly astounding that these companies would conduct themselves this way all while the Way Right is bamboozling working class Americans into believing that health reform is socialist, communist, and comes with death panels! Their actions clearly reveal that they’re confident the blind masses won’t wake up! Health America is a representative of death panels! Their actions against 5 year old Kyler V. Nocker are legendary! These people are the saddest excuse for human being I’ve ever seen!