Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Insure Your Future
Here's yet another report that points to the "blame someone else" smokescreen Bush/Cheney '04 throws around a major problem to keep you from taking actions that would hurt their corporate friends.0 comments
Arkansas News Bureau: Health care costs outpace worker wages, study shows
Nationally, the report showed that family health premiums paid by employers and workers rose from $7,028 in 2000 to $9,320 in 2004. The average amount paid by workers for this coverage rose from $1,433 to $1,947, an increase of 35.9 percent.
The number of Americans spending more than a quarter of their income on medical costs climbed from 11.6 million in 2000 to 14.3 million this year, according to the report.
"Working families were squeezed by runaway health care costs over the past four years," said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, which has criticized President Bush's policy on health care and backed proposals from Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry.
The 50-state report by Families USA is similar to other recent studies by Harvard University and the Kaiser Family Foundation, which highlight the fact that there are 45 million uninsured Americans and fewer employers are now offering health insurance to their employees.
Likewise, the National Federation of Independent Businesses cites skyrocketing health care costs as the most pressing issues facing small business owners.
Nearly 25 million small business owners, employees and families are without health insurance, according to NFIB. That's about 60 percent of the nation's more than 45 million uninsured.
(my emphasis)
The smokescreen focuses us on "However are we going to pay these enormous bills??? We must have new ways to come up with the money!"
No. It's high time that we go after the Evildoers!
The true question we need to zero in on is: "Insurance Industry, just why the hell are these bills so frickin' high? Show us your books!"
It's time to stop glaring at the poor fools who get sick, or the poor guy who's trying to run a small business without going broke, or the doctor who's now paying four times the cost of his education in yearly insurance fees because a couple dozen of his peers are incompetent and deadly, or the lawyer who wins money for horrified people who've been maimed or killed by quacks and the hospitals that abet them.
It's time to take dead aim on the Insurance Industry which is fueling all of this pain and misery. Breaking up the Insurance Industry is our top priority as a nation. When half the CEOs in Hartford, and the like, take that perp walk to answer fraud, collusion, theft, profiteering and price-gouging charges, many other ills in society will slowly begin to heal.
Then, we can turn our attention to the Drug Cartels. Urrr, I mean, the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries.
posted by Gotham 11:01 AM
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