Healthcare: NO Child only Policies

[skooldem1]

Big health insurers to stop selling new child-only policies

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fi-kids-health-insurance-20100921,0,799167.story

[marxthespot]

Anthem Blue Cross [[Wellpoint), Aetna, Cigna, among others are doing this in reponse to the Health Care Reform Act which prohibits refusing the acceptance of children with pre-existing conditions for coverage. The loophole is that they drop insuring children under child-only policies. I guess that means that children can be covered under their parents' "family plans?" These days, health insurance providers consider a "hang-nail" to be a "pre-existing condition."

Just to give some context - from the link below:

"WellPoint, the nation's largest insurer by membership, earned $722.4 million in the three months ended June 30, compared with $693.5 million a year ago. Aetna earned $491 million in the quarter, up from $346.6 million a year ago."

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20100728/NEWS/307289984

These companies are not exactly hurting for money, but they literally have people's lives in their hands...what a disgrace.

[jonc]

What a bunch of evil, greedy Bastards. Healthcare should be a right and not a privilege.

[soulster]

This will make the pro-corporate/republican/tea-baggers look even worse.

[nysister]

Soulster, I don't know because the first thing they are going to do, according to their new blueprint for america is repeal the healthcare bill, cut taxes, no gays in military, ban abortions, cut social security, medicare, etc. And get this, the director of this new blue print lobbied for oil, insurance and pharmaceutical companies this year. People hate Obama so much that they will actually vote for the same policies that got us into this mess in the first place. Beam Me Up Scotty!!!

[soulster]

Soulster, I don't know because the first thing they are going to do, according to their new blueprint for america is repeal the healthcare bill, cut taxes, no gays in military, ban abortions, cut social security, medicare, etc. And get this, the director of this new blue print lobbied for oil, insurance and pharmaceutical companies this year. People hate Obama so much that they will actually vote for the same policies that got us into this mess in the first place. Beam Me Up Scotty!!!

Exactly, what most Americans don't want to happen. But, it's up to the Democrats to promote and get out the message to VOTE! Unfortunately, Democrats are usually too mealy-moused, though. Three years, and they still haven't figured out that you have to fight, especially against the republikkkan/tea-bagger propaganda machine that includes Faux news.

A news organization has no damn business giving money to, and supporting one political party. When they do that, they cease to be journalists, and are therefore not credible.

[marxthespot]

This will make the pro-corporate/republican/tea-baggers look even worse.

Unfortunately, the Pro-corporate Republicans don't care as long as they get their corporate contributions and personal "gifts"...and the "Tea-baggers" are too ignorant to realize that what they or their employers pay for their health care increases 10-20% per year....until a "Tea-bagger" gets ill and has to get a loan or second mortgage on their home or even file for bankruptcy to pay their medical bills - even though they have coverage....and some of those "Tea-baggers" don't exactly look like the picture of health either!!

[soulster]

Well, the tea-bagers are republicans. They don't want you to know that, but it's a fact. Tea-baggers are backed by corporate America, but they don't want you to know that either. Unfortunately, the average citizen who align his or herself with the the tea-baggers don't think about it. They don't know or care. They just want things to go back to 2004...and hate that a Black man is running the country. Most of the tea-baggers are ignorant and racist. I've had the misfortune of meeting enough of them.

[marxthespot]

Well, the tea-bagers are republicans. They don't want you to know that, but it's a fact. Tea-baggers are backed by corporate America, but they don't want you to know that either. Unfortunately, the average citizen who align his or herself with the the tea-baggers don't think about it. They don't know or care. They just want things to go back to 2004...and hate that a Black man is running the country. Most of the tea-baggers are ignorant and racist. I've had the misfortune of meeting enough of them.

"Tea-baggers" don't want to go back just to 2004, they want to go back to 1964 before the "Civil Rights Act."

This conservative "movement" has been in the works and well orchestrated since and before Ronald Regan became president. "Tea-baggers" are just the current pawns being used by the ultra powerful conservatives that have been steering the Republican Party...Fox News and it's rise since the 1990s is an important part of that plan. The choices for Republican presidential candidates including the two "Bush" presdients is no accident. The Iraq war was not a response to 911 - but a plan to place the US as a permanent presence in the country that has the largest of crude oil reserves on the planet. That GW Bush tried to push for the privatization of Social Security was not a "spontaneuos" idea...Sarah Palin, even though ultimately may not be electable as President is a weapon to recruit the vulnerable. Those who steer the elephant party don't really want her as President because she can not follow orders, but she is still useful to them right now.

Who are "they?" These are the most well known - and there are others:

Karl Rove
Dick Cheney
Rush Limbaugh
William Kristol [[The Evening Standard - a conservative propaganda rag)
Rupert Murdoch [[Fox News - though he may be in it more for the money than the philosophy)

Ultimately, what this "conservative" conglomerate wants is:

* Expand corporate control of America - which will benefit them financially at the expense of the middle and poorer classes
* Make Abortion against the law in all cases without exception
* Prevent Gay Marriage from being nationally legalized
* Do away with or privatize Social Security
* Do away with Medicare
* Do away with anything resembling "Affirmative Action"
* Ultimately control who comes into the country and become citizens and alter or repeal the 14th amendment that allows anyone who is born on US soil to be citizens
* Do away with separation of church and state

They hope to accomplish this by using fear on the ignorant [[Tea-baggers", etc.) to help them get Republicans elected, and will then discard them when they are no longer useful. The ultimate goal of this "white" and "conservative" movement is to make America once again mainly "White & "Conservative."