Anti-ObamaCare PR Machine

[KeithE]

From the Center for Public Integrity and HCI Insider Wendell Potter (who knows what he used to do):


Not a fan of ObamaCare - it does way too little to control costs and only affects 9% of insurees.

But this $400M PR campaign (described in the above article) is full of lies and myths. Read the comebacks for many of those myths .

The $75M pro-ObamaCare PR efforts are necessitated to counteract these myths.

[Sandy]

I'm not a fan of Obama care, either, however, when insurance companies can take $400million of your dollars out of the premiums you pay for coverage, and spend it on PR to feather their own nest, that tells you that there is a major problem with the current system that needs to be fixed, and that consumers, and the free market, are not powerful enough to fix it themselves without the intervention of government. Part of government has been bought and paid for by these interests as well. Their ability to buy and pay for influence is a clear indication that their profits and cash flow are way, way too big, and the premiums they charge are way, way too high. No wonder the Canadians can deliver better health care faster and for half the cost.

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[Sandy]

Though by principle I do not believe that health care should be subject to free market principles, since I believe it is a basic human right that is fundamentally a part of the sanctity of human life, neither the insurance business nor health care system we have now operates under free market principles. Nor does it operate under the same rules that most other business in this country does. If it did, the costs to consumers would be considerably lower. People would be able to shop based on information on the quality of service provided and the "success rate" of treatment, the price, and the time of delivery. And they could simply choose the insurance company that provided the best coverage at the lowest rates instead of being locked into coverage based on contracts and costs based on number of people in your group.

I think a single payer system would work best, since it does work better than what we have in virtually every country that has it. Our national defense, run by the government, seems to have been pretty successful over the years in doing its job. There's no reason why we couldn't do health care as well as Germany, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, the Netherlands, or any one of a dozen other western industrialized countries.

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[Dave Roberts]

Would you rather trust your insurance company that has a financial stake in your treatment to tell the doctor what he has to do to collect from them?

[Sandy]

[KeithE]

[KeithE]

Koch Brothers style. Do watch the short video.
Unless someone can show me that OC will lead to unneeded vagina exams, this PR stunt is a fraud.

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5:1 anti-OC.

[Haruo]

I heard yesterday that the Tea Party was planning on shutting down the USA unless OC was rescinded. True or false?

[Haruo]

The Federal government, that is.