Comments on: Media Check Insurance Co. Abuse… Occasionally http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/14/media-check-insurance-co-abuse-occasionally/ The national media watch group Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:49:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Whitney http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/14/media-check-insurance-co-abuse-occasionally/comment-page-1/#comment-6954 Michael Whitney Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:47:58 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=10933#comment-6954 I have one question. Why is the only topic of discussion related to health care just questioning insurance? I have not once heard any talk of reducing the cost of health care providers services and the cost of prescription drugs, and other related costs. If an overhaul in the system does not involve government subsidized health care, then I think this is an item that needs attention. Subsidization will naturally lower the costs just by the fact that the government will start to question and examine these costs more closely if it is paying for it. My one concern is that taking away profit margins and profit motives might end in a reduction of the quality of service. Hasn't the quality of service been reduced anyway by the insurance companies striving for greater profit margins? But I think this risk is worth the gamble in light of the fact so many do not have health care insurance at this point. Amy Goodman of democracynow.org recently listed Senators and Congressmen that had health care industry investments. Sounds like a conflict of interest to me? I highly doubt whether these men would be willing to risk their investments for the good of the common man. What do you think? This will be difficult to impossible unless we start voting these bums out of office! Start publishing voting records on key topics of concern for the proletariat. I have one question. Why is the only topic of discussion related to health care just questioning insurance? I have not once heard any talk of reducing the cost of health care providers services and the cost of prescription drugs, and other related costs. If an overhaul in the system does not involve government subsidized health care, then I think this is an item that needs attention. Subsidization will naturally lower the costs just by the fact that the government will start to question and examine these costs more closely if it is paying for it. My one concern is that taking away profit margins and profit motives might end in a reduction of the quality of service. Hasn't the quality of service been reduced anyway by the insurance companies striving for greater profit margins? But I think this risk is worth the gamble in light of the fact so many do not have health care insurance at this point. Amy Goodman of democracynow.org recently listed Senators and Congressmen that had health care industry investments. Sounds like a conflict of interest to me? I highly doubt whether these men would be willing to risk their investments for the good of the common man. What do you think? This will be difficult to impossible unless we start voting these bums out of office! Start publishing voting records on key topics of concern for the proletariat.

]]> By: Paul Diamond http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/14/media-check-insurance-co-abuse-occasionally/comment-page-1/#comment-6926 Paul Diamond Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:31:12 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=10933#comment-6926 Much of the opposition to public or single payer insurance seems to center around promoting fear of having bureacrats involved. Can somebody explain to me why it is preferable having people whose primary function is to make the most money for the least expenditure for their employers making healthcare decisions for people than civil servants who have sworn to "...support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States..." have taken an oath to "...establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..." and "...promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."? I would sure like to know? Much of the opposition to public or single payer insurance seems to center around promoting fear of having bureacrats involved. Can somebody explain to me why it is preferable having people whose primary function is to make the most money for the least expenditure for their employers making healthcare decisions for people than civil servants who have sworn to "…support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States…" have taken an oath to "…establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…" and "…promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…"? I would sure like to know?

]]> By: Cala http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/14/media-check-insurance-co-abuse-occasionally/comment-page-1/#comment-6836 Cala Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:20:26 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=10933#comment-6836 I recommended to a friend of mine to watch the Bill Moyers interview of Mr Potter on the web. She said it was meaningless, and why would I want more goverment in our lives. I cannot understand what is not clear in such interviews such as Moyers with Potter that it is clear health insurance corp are out to squeeze most of our money but not recognize our health issues and pay the bills patients accrue. Why are many afraid to have a system that can work for all like other countries who have success with their systems. Not to copy it but to come up with something to work for all. I have never lived in Mexico but my family originates from there, and many go to the doctor there also my mother recieved a major operation removal of a giant fibriod tumor and hysterectomy. Which by the way they also reconstructed some organs because she had delivered all 3 children via C section many years earlier. Which left her intestines swean up to her C section seam. She paid less than $3000.00 US dollars, if I am recalling correct, all the while the doctors from her insurance in the US never diagnosed this, ultra sound after ultra sound after ultra sound. This was approximately 23 years ago. So all in all the insurance corp pratices in the U.S. is nothing new today it has been 23 years of denials that patients are sick. It is we the people who put up with year after year of abuse, they need to be boycotted or we need to find a new path to health coverage. So in my view Mexican Dr's attend you with dignity, accuracy, economically, no beating around the bush. As for me here in the U.S. my gynocologist said my well woman check-up was fine, refering to the hormone panel in specific. And I said, "Dr you cannnot tell me that a woman who has to cry to your receptionist to ask for a simple appointment cries? I am not obviously well." He said, "well in order to take care of this for you I recommend you go on antidepressants." I had just succesfully and gradually gotten off them and would look for other alternatives before I took antidepressants again. I have gotten my hormones balanced and feel like a normal woman again. I have spent bundles of money looking for the answer homeopathically, and doing well. Yet mind you I've been insured all the while and insurance does not pay these treaments or visits. All in all our Dr's majority of them place bandaids on illness but not cure or anywhere near that. How sad for a country that is so called the most powerful in the world! We are sinking this country, in a deep abyss through many forms and health insurance companies is one of the many doing this to our citizens to United States. I recommended to a friend of mine to watch the Bill Moyers interview of Mr Potter on the web. She said it was meaningless, and why would I want more goverment in our lives. I cannot understand what is not clear in such interviews such as Moyers with Potter that it is clear health insurance corp are out to squeeze most of our money but not recognize our health issues and pay the bills patients accrue. Why are many afraid to have a system that can work for all like other countries who have success with their systems. Not to copy it but to come up with something to work for all.

I have never lived in Mexico but my family originates from there, and many go to the doctor there also my mother recieved a major operation removal of a giant fibriod tumor and hysterectomy. Which by the way they also reconstructed some organs because she had delivered all 3 children via C section many years earlier. Which left her intestines swean up to her C section seam. She paid less than $3000.00 US dollars, if I am recalling correct, all the while the doctors from her insurance in the US never diagnosed this, ultra sound after ultra sound after ultra sound. This was approximately 23 years ago. So all in all the insurance corp pratices in the U.S. is nothing new today it has been 23 years of denials that patients are sick. It is we the people who put up with year after year of abuse, they need to be boycotted or we need to find a new path to health coverage. So in my view Mexican Dr's attend you with dignity, accuracy, economically, no beating around the bush.

As for me here in the U.S. my gynocologist said my well woman check-up was fine, refering to the hormone panel in specific. And I said, "Dr you cannnot tell me that a woman who has to cry to your receptionist to ask for a simple appointment cries? I am not obviously well." He said, "well in order to take care of this for you I recommend you go on antidepressants." I had just succesfully and gradually gotten off them and would look for other alternatives before I took antidepressants again. I have gotten my hormones balanced and feel like a normal woman again. I have spent bundles of money looking for the answer homeopathically, and doing well. Yet mind you I've been insured all the while and insurance does not pay these treaments or visits. All in all our Dr's majority of them place bandaids on illness but not cure or anywhere near that. How sad for a country that is so called the most powerful in the world! We are sinking this country, in a deep abyss through many forms and health insurance companies is one of the many doing this to our citizens to United States.

]]> By: Lola Flores http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/14/media-check-insurance-co-abuse-occasionally/comment-page-1/#comment-6814 Lola Flores Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:47:28 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=10933#comment-6814 "Unfortunately, the U.S. press' general attention toward the larger story of insurance company evildoing has been neglectful to say the least..." Unfortunately, the U.S. press' general attention toward the larger story in the general evildoing has been neglectful to say the least period. Still, they wonder why newspapers are going bankrupt everywhere and, rather than realize that they have become nothing more that parrots for the corporate press and the propaganda machine, still blame their sale-out to the Internet. Their papers aren't selling more because there's nothing to read! These whores don't investigate and report the news, they just repeat ad nauseum what their corporate owners want them to. Their 'news' aren't worth the paper they're printed on. "Unfortunately, the U.S. press' general attention toward the larger story of insurance company evildoing has been neglectful to say the least…"

Unfortunately, the U.S. press' general attention toward the larger story in the general evildoing has been neglectful to say the least period. Still, they wonder why newspapers are going bankrupt everywhere and, rather than realize that they have become nothing more that parrots for the corporate press and the propaganda machine, still blame their sale-out to the Internet. Their papers aren't selling more because there's nothing to read! These whores don't investigate and report the news, they just repeat ad nauseum what their corporate owners want them to. Their 'news' aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

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