please listen to Robert Reich's Words on what he considers to be the way the health care system should look like in this country.

These are the words of Robert Reich, Obama's Labor Secretary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7Y0TOBuG4

"We have the only health care system in the world that is designed to aviod sick people."

"You young healthy people, you're going to have to pay more."

"We're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of months. It's too expensive. So we're going to let you die."

"Also, I'm going to use the bargaining leverage of the Federal Government... medicare, medicaid.. to force drug companies and insurance companies and medical suppliers to reduce their costs but that means less innovation and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market which means that you're not going to live that much longer than your parents."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704322004574475440538219178.html

Oh hell not worth responding to.

yeah,what the insurance cartels are doing right now is worse than any of that

What's disgusting to me is that it's twisted information. i have already heard what the guy has really said for a few days now when he is interviewed.

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/

pathetic..

Yes it is quite pathetic isn't it. I agree.

Interesting. A mock exercise for a poly sci class and he played the part of a politically incorrect politician.

By Robert Reich

The health-insurance industry has finally revealed itself for what it is.

Insurers hate the idea that's emerged from the Senate Finance Committee of lowering penalties on younger and healthier people who don't buy insurance. Relying on an analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers, insurers say this means new enrollees will be older and less healthy -- which will drive up costs. And, says the industry, these costs will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher premiums. Proposed taxes on high-priced "Cadillac" policies will also be passed on to consumers. As a result, premiums will rise faster and higher than the government projects.

It's an eleventh-hour bombshell.

But the bomb went off under the insurers. The only reason these costs can be passed on to consumers in the form of higher premiums is because there's not enough competition among private insurers to force them to absorb the costs by becoming more efficient. Get it? Health insurers have just made the best argument yet about why a public insurance option is necessary.

Right now they run their markets and set their prices, and pass on any increased costs directly to consumers. That's what they're threatening to do if the legislation attempts to squeeze, even slightly, the colossal profits they plan to make off of thirty million new paying customers.

They want every penny of those profits. They demand every cent. And if the government dares raise their costs a tad higher than they expected when they first signed on to support the bill, they'll pass those costs on to consumers in the form of higher premiums. They can carry out their threat only because they have unaccountable, untrammeled market power.

But they've now hoisted themselves on their own insured petard. They've exposed themselves. If they had to compete with a public insurance plan, they couldn't get away with this threat. They couldn't pass on the extra costs. They'd have to compete with a public insurance option that forced them to give consumers the best deals possible.

Now's the time for Congress and the White House to say to the insurance industry: You want to play hardball? Okay. We'll play it, too. You didn't want a public insurance option. That was one of your conditions for supporting the bill. You wanted gigantic profits from having thirty million new paying customers and the market to yourself. The Senate Finance Committee and the White House agreed because they wanted your support and were afraid of the negative ads and hurricane of opposition you could finance. But you're even greedier than we imagined. And now you've demonstrated that greed to the American people. They don't want to turn over even more of their hard-earned money to you. So, insurance companies, we've got news for you. We're going to make sure Americans have the freedom to choose a public insurance option that's cheaper and better, and you're going to have to work hard to keep them your customers.


from Robert Reich's Blog

Ya interesting huh

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