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COLUMN: THE WILL POWER REPORT: Nothing but the Truth!
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June 6, 2009 (San Diego)--The US Private Health Insurance companies have started their TV blitz to stop government health care. Do we have the political will to defy these clowns?
There are many inherent problems with for-profit Health Care. Obviously, making a profit is the primary goal. To do so, Insurance companies are notorious for twisting the legalese in their policies to make it nearly impossible for sick people to get the care they need. They also cherry-pick the healthy, eliminate the people with chronic medical conditions, and then cancel those people who develop life-threatening conditions.
It is absurd to think these profiteering do-nothing paper-pushers will suddenly change the way their policies are written or reinterpret how the policies are backed up. Insurance companies have spent years writing policies that are self-contradictory, obscure, and resistant to patient’s appeals or court challenge.
The “choice” the Big Insurance Agents want is to force every US citizen to buy some form of “discounted” private insurance. These “bargain” policies are just as likely to contain abusive and legally questionable language as the current policies.
Until you have had the experience of having to fight for coverage that you can clearly read in your policy but is denied by some suit in New York, you have not experienced the true inefficiency of the Private health Insurance Net. Perhaps a Government single-payer system won’t be much more efficient, but at least the new system will not be looking to make a profit off your sickness or disease. That alone is a good reason to change the system.
After all, all the Insurance Companies have to do to win is deny you care until you die! Game over!
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