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-RKO-
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-RKO- asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 1 decade ago

Are You Kidding Me....?

"Americans would be fined up to $3800 for failing to buy health insurance under a new plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday..." according to YaHoo! News.

Are you kidding me? Isn't it about time the greedy, profit-mongering insurance companies get out of the business of government. This is an obscene, immoral, unethical and downright reprehensible abuse of power and influence on the part of the insurance industry, which would virtually hold a gun to every American's head, forcing them to buy health insurance, and guaranteeing them trillions of dollars in profits. Can anyone see anything 'honorable' about this outrageous proposal?

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  • Annie
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    Unfortunately, it's becoming very obvious to most level headed people, that the insurance & pharmaceutical companies owned the previous government, (along with the oil companies.) There are way too many politicians making money on the misfortune of the sick and they don't give a damn about the working Americans who can't afford, or cannot get, health insurance.

    I am so disgusted with all the bad press that the Presidents plan has got. Some crooks must lay awake at night making this stuff up.

    I grew up in England where National Health has worked effectively for decades. If you're sick, you go to the doctor without the worry of how much a visit will cost, or worse, having to have tests done. Every working person pays a premium into the plan which is hundreds of dollars less than even an HMO here.

    Sometimes you have to wait for none emergency surgeries but I've waited over 2 years here for hip replacement. Now it's really bad. My insurance company raked in $840 a month, minus a few pain pills that it cost them.

    Source(s): Lived in both countries. Prefer National Health 100%.
  • 1 decade ago

    funny that's exactly what I said. the best thing that could be done for this country would be for the insurance companies and drug companies to be investigated and made to show people why they can charge what they do. they are way out of control.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Can be govt insurance, doesn't have to be private. Will just ensure that all have it. Will never pass with those numbers, but it is a start. Sliding scale according to ability to pay.

  • 1 decade ago

    Gun to the head, indeed its worse than Hitler!

    we have no rights anymore it seems!!

    can this happen or be allowed to happen in a democracy??

    DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN, PPL UNITE NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They are all in this together.

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