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Your insurance premiums will continue to rise whether you are an individual, or any size business and they will rise exponentially. They could be 20 grand a year very soon in Georgia. $21,280 in a few years and the number that lose insurance per day in Georgia will climb from the current 430 exponentially. Health Care Coops, which seem to be the “secret" deal between Joe Biden and the hospital lobbyists if Emanuel gets the House bills to conform to the Senate Finance bill will have zero impact on the astronomical rise in your insurance rates and some of you will be going without medical care. On July 8, Biden announced that there was a deal with the hospitals — just like the one with PhRMA — where they agreed to $155 billion in cost reductions over 10 years. According to the NYT: “Several hospital lobbyists involved in the White House deals said it was understood as a condition of their support that the final legislation would not include a government-run health plan paying Medicare rates — generally 80 percent of private sector rates — or controlled by the secretary of health and human services." Because when you get those hospital bills for surgery and you can't understand why a Tylenol costs $12 and a $3 guaze wrap costs $120 it's because they want the money, and they intend to keep getting that money–and your insurance company is happy to pass that right onto you and costs will continue to soar thanks to that deal Biden made secretly and coops, and thanks to 6 Senators who represent 2.77% of the population.
Billy Mays Health Insurance Commercials Pulled
Less than two months after pitchman Billy Mays was found dead in his home, the health insurance ads he had done for iCAN Benefit group have been pulled off the air. Although Mays' family gave permission for the ads to continue, the company decided to stop them. The iCAN Benefit group bills itself as a company that is “like a close friend who knows all about affordable health insurance," according to its website. Billy Mays was pitching for a company whose mission is to “improve the lives of those who cannot afford or qualify for medical coverage by providing access to affordable health insurance for everyone." This sounds like a noble cause, especially given the current volatile health insurance reform struggles, and Mays reportedly was proud to be promoting the cause of the iCAN Benefit group.
What happens when private insurance companies cover only healthy
Namely, efficiency in health care is a good thing, but if it's applied to private health insurance company business models -- i.e. insuring only healthy people or the healthiest citizens -- the logical consequence of it is, obviously, a larger and larger pool of excluded, less-healthy citizens and/or people who need more care and whose health care costs are higher. .
House Dem: Pelosi's Insurance Comments "Misguided"
The White House and other Democrats are increasingly taking aim at the insurance industry to promote health care reform, but one Democratic congressman reportedly says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went too far when she referred to the industry as "villains."
Rep. John Yarmuth (D- Ky.) sent a letter earlier this month to the chief executive of the Louisville-based insurance company, calling Pelosi's comments "inflammatory" and "misguided," according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
"They are the villains in this," Pelosi said of the insurance industry in a July press conference. "They have been part of the problem in a major way."
"Regrettably, with passions inflamed throughout the country, Speaker Pelosi recently made inflammatory statements that assailed the character of health insurers across the board.
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