National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

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The private insurance corporations have had a heavy hand in producing the dysfunction of our current health care system. Their greed has become so distasteful and so disgusting to us that any sane American wants them out of the system.

Part of our trek toward Single-Payer Universal Health Care for All is confronting these corporations and making it clear to our fellow citizens that private insurers are a drag and an impedance on us. They block us from getting the medical care we need when we need it. They are a middle man that takes billions of dollars out of the system, using the money for immorally high CEO salaries, advertising and dividends, instead of using it to restore health and alleviate suffering.

June 19th is a day of national protest against these corporations. There will be thousands of health activists meeting to speak up and out against their greed.

Come join us if you can.

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Here's a link that lists the other cities that will be holding protests on June 19th, in case you can't get to San Francisco: http://www.healthcare-now.org/june19.html

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I am so much looking forward to this day. The basic criminality of the private insurers has run wild for far too long, but people are finally beginning to catch on to them. I believe we are getting close to exhausting the tolerance of the American people for them and being able to make real change. For anyone in Northern California, the protest in San Francisco will be the big one and the fun one. Come on out and join the fun!

Question:

What's the difference between Helath Insurance Company and the Mafia?

Answer: When you pay the Mafia the money they are extorting from you, they usually won't kill you. A health insurance company will take your money and still kill you.

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Speading the word...

New York Nurses will participate in the NYC and Albany rallies.

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Here's a flyer with the nation wide locations where rallies are being held and the contact info for the coordinators:

junenineteen.pdf

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.

A cousin & family will attend in Oklahoma City.

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Specializes in ER.

ill be there in chicago

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The private insurance corporations have had a heavy hand in producing the dysfunction of our current health care system. Their greed has become so distasteful and so disgusting to us that any sane American wants them out of the system.

They are a middle man that takes billions of dollars out of the system, using the money for immorally high CEO salaries, advertising and dividends, instead of using it to restore health and alleviate suffering.

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I am no fan of insurance companies, but if we are going to lay blame for the cost of healthcare, let's add a few more players. Your employer who has purchased the insurance and designed the coverages and restrictions you enjoy - the insurance company merely sells a product and enforces the restrictions dictated by them. The litigants with dollar signs in their eyes who bring frivilous lawsuits and have forced providers to order unnecessary diagnostics and treatments. The corporations who drive up the cost of utilization by charging outrageous prices for equipment and supplies. The list is endless, and ends with the consumer who places himself in the healthcare system because of bad lifestyle choices and then becomes a victim who declares that "the sky is the limit" to cure him of something he should not have had in the first place. THese are all generalizations, of course, but the cost of healthcare is a lot more complex than the profits of insurance companies.

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1,000 picket health insurance convention in sf

[color=#676767]san francisco (cbs 5 / ap / bcn) ―

protesters outside a health insurance industry convention in san francisco are demanding the creation of a single-payer health care system in the u.s.

more than 1,000 demonstrators rallied thursday outside the three-day event organized by america's health insurance plans, an industry group.

protesters lined fourth street and wrapped around howard street, swarming moscone center, where insurance companies and stakeholders were gathering for an annual convention....

http://cbs5.com/business/health.care.protests.2.752734.html

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Talking Healthcare Blues

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...THese are all generalizations, of course, but the cost of healthcare is a lot more complex than the profits of insurance companies.

Granted there are multiple factors for why our health care system is not about care and is hardly a system. But the biggest factor of them all, wasting/ taking out of the system 1/3 of the dollars that should go to the care of patients is the private insurers. They misappropriate billions of health care dollars. I say misappropriate because the money is not used on caring for patients; it is used to pay all that is involved in private insurance companies' overhead.

Medicare can run on 3%. Why do the private insurers need 31%? That's money lost to greed. And there is no room for that when it comes to health care.

What will fix the mess they've got us in? Single Payer. Privately delivered (you choose your own doctor and hospital), publicly funded health care.

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