Insurance commish calls Aetna move an unfair scare tactic

hologram5 said on December 7, 2009 at 7:41 AM

The insurance companies, the way it stands now is nothing more than a criminalistic cabal. These people NOW have death panels, undercut paying the hospitals and practices denying benefits anywhere they can. Anyone that feels we shouldn't change or that is listening to the LIES that the GOP is spewing is a fool and needs a good slap of reality.

goodsama said on December 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM

zaksmom is explaining a very real situation that is already affecting countless americans right now....this is with out the government trying to step in to make sure people are covered with good care at a affordable rates....leave it to conservatives in our midst who use scare tactics to try and scare people over to their side...and some of them are in the same bad situation all of us are but they cant see the light because they have been brought up brainwashed to believe that anything the government does is bad and that we should all trust our livelihoods to the private market...they believe in a bare bones government who cant help its people when its needed....most are of the income bracket who dont need help whether its with insurance or anything else so these people have no problem wishing that the government would just vansih into thin air....they scream words like socialism and death panels as if they dont realize we have been a capitalist/socialist nation since day one...

zaksmom said on December 6, 2009 at 8:53 AM

dcady203 you fail to realize that this is already happening and has been happening long before Obama took up the challenge of trying to make health care affordable for everyone. My health insurance premium for pretty crappy insurance (paid for virtually nothing) when from 185.00 a month two years ago, to $1180.00 a month with even less benefits this year. Consequently I have Washington Basis Health now which thank God covers the bare minimums. I'm not lazy, I'm not irresponsible and I'm certainly not rich. I make $800.00 a month and I work hard for that money. I had a decent insurance company with WBH but gee, they decided to pull out as of January 1 2010 because low income health just isn't profitable. That's why we need universal health care with its stipulations that companies can't pull out because of profitablity and can't raise rates. I hope you don't even have to figure out how to support you family on $800 bucks but I am and there are a lot of folks like me. We need this!

pixelater said on December 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM

dcady203 nailed it.

dcady203 said on December 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM

This action is just a tiny peek at the freight train headed our way in every single State once ObamaCare is in full force. Private carriers will essentially be left with 3 alternatives, and those will be (1) raise premiums to a level that only the very wealthy will be able to pay, and/or (2) increase co-pays and decrease the level of services, and/or (3) stop writing business in "your" locale. The "free lunch crowd" that now seems to dominate our political landscape simply refuse to consider or acknowledge that the hidden agenda in the present so-called "reform" debate is to ultimately drive private medical insurance carriers out of the market and out of business, leaving the field wide open to yet another huge Federal beauracracy takeover. Of course, the wealthy and the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal gov't. WILL be exempt from being required to play be the same rules as the great "unwashed" amongst us.