For the people who don't want the government to run health care...?

I agree health care companies are not in the business to provide good honest health care service, they are in the business to make money and do whatever to make that money, which includes letting people die because of pre-existing conditions. At least the government is not so discriminatory in this regard. You are sick, they treat you.

Someone has got to run the company - hence the so-called "fat cat" CEO. That term is just another ploy by the government to create divisions and rifts between the "haves" and the "have-nots" - something that the Dimmocraps (and to a lesser degree, the Repooplicans) have down to an art.

I would rather have my doctor make medical decisions about the care that I need than some government bureaucrat who has absolutely NO understanding of what my needs might be, and have the freedom to choose what health-care insurance I want - NOT have the government dictate to me or my health-care provider.

There are not 47 million people without health-care insurance. Not when you eliminate the 20 million illegals that are included in that total and the millions of others who ELECT not have medical insurance because they want to use their money for something that they consider more important. And there is not one person in this country that is EVER denied treatment for emergency medical situations. Our laws, and the Supreme Court have seen to that.

For someone with health insurance, healthcare decisions are currently governed by the contract that the person has with the insurance company. The contract has provisions, such as inclusions and exclusions. Both sides are expected to follow those provisions. The CEO of the insurance company, whether he is obese or not, does not make the individual healthcare decisions. Rationing under a government-controlled system would work quite differently. There would be no contract; a bureaucrat would decide whether the specific medical procedure that you need is worth the cost, or whether scarce medical resources could be better spent on someone else.

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Yes I am very comfortable with fat CEO's. I've dealt with government ran health care. If you don't like the coverage you are getting or the profits your company is making you need to move on and let market pressure dictate this. Who the hell are you to tell a CEO what he can make? That is up to the board of directors and the profitability of the company. Keep competition alive, and government ran health anything is just plain stupid and idiotic.

AF Vet

You missed the fact that the people who's coverage was dropped lied on the application form. That is an immediate cause of cancellation. If you are honest with the insurance companies you have no problems. Out of the millions covered they only dropped 20,000 people over a ten year span. This is a very small percentage and all of them had falsified documentation to get coverage.

Please get the full story correct before trying to make a point.

Maybe we just don't want it to take up to a year for us to get treatment since that seems to be acceptable to democrats in terms of turnaround.

Watch 'Sicko' and find out, it was all Nixon's fault.