02.16.10
Looters Rule
There are no more vilified figures in the US than Wall Street bankers and health insurers.
For being the objects of unrestricted hate, there’s no topping them.
Nevertheless, some try. Here’s Fox Business News, portrayed everywhere this morning, castigating a Wellpoint/Anthem insurance p.r. man not for gouging and looting customers — but for gouging and looting them at just the wrong time, giving the Obama administration ammunition to push again on healthcare reform.
An article and video of it are here.
DD is a resident of California with Anthem coverage.
Here’s how Anthem works. It takes premiums and never pays out.
The deductibles and co-pays are so high one learns to never go into the doctor’s office for illness or health problems that don’t immediately threaten to put you in the emergency room.
I learned this the hard way years ago.
Growth on your nose that might be cancerous?
Forget it. Pay for removal and biopsy yourself.
Painful skin condition? Pay for the drugs to control it with own coin. Or endure it even though the cure is a matter-of-fact one.
I’m certain it’s that way for thousands who now constantly must wonder why they have health insurance at all.
In any case, these are wonderful Sheriff of Nottingham-like quotes:
“Even a spokesman for Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) was compelled to feign concern …”
Fox Business News: But [Mr. Wellpoint/Anthem man] this is like Jaws 2, just when you thought it was safe to get out of the healthcare debate, you brought everybody back into it. […] Didn’t someone though, wasn’t there a committee that said listen, let’s take Wall Street’s lead, do the minimum we can, wait for this to blow over and maybe a year from now try to hike rates?
DD is going to leave it to the President and Democratic Party to turn this into a disaster as only they can.
In a month or two we’ll see that government initiatives to make robbing customers blind are horrendous things, fought tooth and nail by many of those being robbed blind.
And that’s the way we like it!