What other business is able to make the consumer pay THREE TIMES before receiving the product?  With health insurance, first we pay premiums, then before we actually get the insurance we have to pay the deductible, and then we still have to provide co-pays in order to get any diagnostic tests we need.  We even have to pay co-pays to get inside the door for a doctor appointment.  So we have to pay three times before we get the service we purchased.  Where is the money from our premium payments going?  We are buying vacation homes and paying country club fees for the CEOs.Then, as is the case with my family, after paying out all that money for premiums, we often do not have enough cash left for the co-pays, so we still get no health care.  The insurance companies get our money without providing ANYTHING.

Now that Wall Street has destroyed the housing industry with faulty mortgages, the CEOs are branching into a new area: health insurance, where they can exploit human beings directly, profiting off the need we all have to treat illnesses. 

I think it is suspicious that Wall Street is growing its investment in the “health care business” at the same time President Obama neglected to include Single Payer as an option in health care reform. 

This affects me personally.  I am 63 years old and somewhat sick but have no way to see a doctor until I turn 65 and finally get Medicare, if I make it to 65….

I was so happy to read the following two statements recently at the singlepayer action dot org website:

“We are sick of health insurance companies jacking up premiums while insurance CEOs make out like bandits.”

AND

“We are sick of high deductibles, co-pays, and the in-network, out-of-network Rube Goldberg system we live under”

I was beginning to think no one was noticing. 

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Blogged by Kay Ebeling, living in the USA