{"id":55,"date":"2009-09-09T20:54:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T02:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-09-12T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:08:08","slug":"health-insurance-industry-scumbag-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/archives\/55","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance industry scumbag list"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, you think government run health care would have a lot of “bureaucratic overhead”? Think it would surpass some of these jokers who have been ripping YOU off? These guys don’t even have the shame to stop dropping people from HEALTH INSURANCE for getting SICK…just so they can do more of the following.<\/p>\n

Health Insurance Industry CEOs<\/a><\/p>\n

You can look all the information up on Google finance. They have to disclose their earnings under the law. Aside, it also proves there is still wage inequality. Why is the only woman on that list making so much less than those other guys? Like that stock trick Hemsley pulled? Made everyone think he took a big paycut, but he slipped 3\/4s of a billion into stock options. Sneaky. <\/p>\n

That crazy money is coming out of your health premiums. They’re getting it because they…uh…do stuff? In an office? Sometimes?<\/p>\n

Here’s a new one: Blue Cross Blue Shield Party bonuses<\/a><\/p>\n

That money, right there, is money you pay into that company for your policy. If they drop your policy, if they change your coverage, if they make you go to a different hospital…if the reason for all that is to save money, it certainly looks like they’re not doing it by skimming less off the top like most companies do when times get tough.<\/p>\n

They stay in business by keeping a stranglehold on the medical system. Our hospitals aren’t as good as many overseas in countries with single payer. I know that firsthand having worked in with medical technology, and knowing that the target markets weren’t always US hospitals…but rather, Dutch, English, German, French, and Canadian hospitals because they had the money to put down for more advanced equipment that could save them money in the long run. US hospitals are years behind everyone else. Years behind, far more expensive, and a mess. The overhead caused by the association between private insurance companies and hospitals is ridiculous, but the people on top are skimming off so much money that they couldn’t care less. <\/p>\n

THAT’s why we’re having this conversation. Health care costs are going to be the major cost this country has in a few years. Take that, and add to the fact that we are NOT prepared to defend against a terrorist spread pandemic, and we are SCREWED if we do not do something about it right now. Even those health insurance CEOs can get sick and die. They have kids who know kids who might be carrying the swine flu. Or ebola. Or whatever new mutated supervirus might be out next. But they’re too rich, too wealthy, to see the mistake they’re making. These people are driving a bus while blindfolded. That bus is our country, and if the riders don’t get up and do something about it, it’s going to hit a wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, you think government run health care would have a lot of “bureaucratic overhead”? Think it would surpass some of these jokers who have been ripping YOU off? These guys don’t even have the shame to stop dropping people from HEALTH INSURANCE for getting SICK…just so they can do more of the following. Health Insurance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}