Groups Protest Health Insurance Heavyweights
May 20th, 2009 | by Rick |AmericanNewsProject asked:
This piece was produced in conjunction with the Huffington Post. Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post: Congressman Eric Massa (DN.Y.) led a protest Monday outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington, site of the 2009 national conference of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade group for the health insurance industry. “We are not radicals! We are not a fringe element!” shouted Massa, who opted not to use the bullhorn provided by protest organizers. “We are the 48 million Americans who …
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25 Responses to “Groups Protest Health Insurance Heavyweights”
By ORVILLE on May 21, 2009 | Reply
RUBEN
one we are not in Canada we are in the US. But you are making it like you don’t pay a penny. But tey every country that does have a national health care system pays the highest taxs.
As all as it is truely free than I’ll stand up. but that means hospitals,doctors and nurses will all have to work for free.
They do that and I’ll stand up.
By DERRICK on May 25, 2009 | Reply
ALBERTO
Okay.. that was a great video! really made ma laugh! I liked it alot! I wanna watch it over and over again now!! I t really had me laughing!
By TED on May 26, 2009 | Reply
WILBERT
Thank you Bonnie. We need all the help we can get. I’ve got a lawsuit against my insurance company. Check out California Nurses Association vidoe “Janet Stephens Real People Denied Real Health Care” on YouTube and please comment. You can also see me playing piano with my favorite guy and bassist, Brian Wright. I think you’ll find the story and hopefully the music interesting.
By TROY on May 28, 2009 | Reply
SANTOS
What good is “the best medical care in the world” (and I’d like to see where people are getting that designation from) if the people of that country can’t afford it? I’ll take “the second-best medical care in the world” if its available to everyone regardless of their income. Give us single payer health care subsidized by our taxes - I will GLADLY pay an extra $100 a year if it means that all my fellow citizens get the health care they need!
By ANDERSON on May 30, 2009 | Reply
PHIL
i live in Canada and nobody has too pay for healthcare it is a basic need! i hope one day the ppl in the U.S will not have to worry about healthcare anymore i could not imagine not being able to take my kids to the doc!! ALL OF U NEED TO STAND UP!!!
By HOUSTON on May 31, 2009 | Reply
CLIFTON
I frankly do not see an easy answer to this problem.
By ANDREW on Jun 3, 2009 | Reply
BLAINE
The majority of jobs available are in the service industry which offers no benefits generally. The jobs that do - require more education and skills - and are hard to come by of late. The Health Insurance companies are not totally the problem - it’s that people cannot afford to pay the premiums for decent coverage. The United States offers the best medical care in the world - which brings a pricetag out of most peoples affordable reach.
By ARMAND on Jun 6, 2009 | Reply
VANCE
Many people do not have health insurance now I believe due to companies moving elsewhere. Hershey is now moving to Mexico - as did other companies. When the companies move to other nations this leaves people with no job or benefits. The days are almost past to be able to find ANY job that offers good benefits let alone any kind of a pension. The Government has made it too easy for companies to pull up stakes and go elsewhere.
By ELIJAH on Jun 7, 2009 | Reply
This is like the fourth time this is in my subscription box.
By ASHLEY on Jun 10, 2009 | Reply
CHARLIE
Then if your using the 3rd party logic arent the insurance companies a 3rd party in the transaction? But since we have a socialized police dept & a socialized fire dept what wrong with socialized med Or should we privatize first responders now too lets come up with an insurance industry to support that & see how well that goes over I can just Imagian how well that would go over it would be like Im sorry getting mugged aint coverd orIm sorry we had to let your house burn down you have no ins.
By LUTHER on Jun 13, 2009 | Reply
STEVE
But the doctors are the ones who are refusing your right to health care by insisting they get paid ungodly amounts for it. Insurance is just a way of trying to convince someone else to pay for healthcare you can’t afford. Voluntarily via private systems, or forcefully via singlepayer.
By LAURENCE on Jun 17, 2009 | Reply
FLETCHER
But if you clain health care is a human right, then it is between the person who wants to exercise that right (the patient) and the one who provides that right (if it is a right, how come someone needs to provide it??) Bringing an innocent thrid party into the equation is only a disttraction. The two parties to this “right” are the doctor and the patient.
By MARIO on Jun 17, 2009 | Reply
CEDRIC
The single payer system is the only way to go & its not like doctors still arent going to be making MAD MONEY they are they are Dr’s they deserve it however the Insurance co’s shouldnt be profiting off this this Its about time we got the insurance industry out of health care & for those who fear that the fed will dictate how care is distributed the insurance companies do that now. But at least I can have 3 astma attacks in a month like I did back last Jan & it not cost 2k a pop at the ER
By DANNY on Jun 20, 2009 | Reply
KRIS
i meant to give thumbs up. this is exactly right. wake up people.
By IRVIN on Jun 21, 2009 | Reply
RUSS
we already know of the greed there is. i am speaking on behalf of human rights. no matter who is to blame anyone who says that healthcare is not a human right is just as bad as the greedy physician or the insurance company working hand in hand with them for those dollars. maybe if more people started uprising things would change. but with people like you playing the back and forth blame game,, NOTHING gets done.
By NORMAND on Jun 23, 2009 | Reply
KURTIS
I support Single Payer 100%. But Massa said it wrong that people can’t go to the doctor. Yes they can, if they want to pay for it themselves. It’s cutting out the insurance part of the equation and letting all people have coverage that would solve the problem. With the lobbyists involved, it would be the tallest mountain to climb. But we’ve got to try.
It would work even better than Medicare. It would put America back on top as a progressive country.
By ADAM on Jun 24, 2009 | Reply
MARY
Sorry, but I don’t work for the health insurance industry. I’m just don’t want the feds telling me what to do. Are you happy with how the government treated the power they had the last 8 years and think the solution is to give them more. Imagine the feds that had power over whether or not you could seek health care, or what health care was permissible. They’d never abuse that power would they? Oh, of course not.
Michael, I am telling the truth, but it seems you can’t handle the truth.
By CARMINE on Jun 25, 2009 | Reply
JORGE
Steve Kopekne, health insurance agent. Cone on Steve, tell the truth.
By JERALD on Jun 27, 2009 | Reply
MARCUS
A few? Around here there are plenty of high paid doctors living in big houses driving fancy cars. Sometimes I think this whole attack on the health insurance industry is a plot by physicians to distract people from how much the physicians are getting paid. You know if you compare physicians salaries in different countries to the median wage in those countries, doctors in the US are paid 2-3 times they rate they are elsewhere. 2-3 times!! Now wonder our health care cost so much!
By PHIL on Jun 29, 2009 | Reply
LUIS
Danner and Ignagni look like zombie robots. I bet they have extensive health care complete with mood altering, intellect suppressing, mind dulling freely supplied “treatments” Medical Special Interests probably puts them in a suitcase and brings them out when they need them to say pat unmoving slogans to continue to make a few rich at the expense of the whole.
By BRETT on Jun 29, 2009 | Reply
RUBIN
Tell that to the physicians who refuse to give you that human right without getting paid, not some third party who is not involved and who doesn’t want to be forced into paying for it. If it is a right, then sue the doctor who won’t treat you for violating your right.
By SCOTTIE on Jun 30, 2009 | Reply
JASON
healthcare is not a priviledge you assholes… it is a RIGHT! HUMAN RIGHTS! EVERYONE DESERVES THE SAME CARE IN LIFE! What is wrong with you people!
By ANDREW on Jul 3, 2009 | Reply
SEAN
lmao, if you have to tell people you aren’t a fringe element, you *are* a fringe element. 48 million cannot access medical care? Not that old lie! 10million of those make over 100k per year and are “self-insured”. Another 17million make over 50K and could afford health care, but choose not to, paying for it out of their pocket.
By ABDUL on Jul 6, 2009 | Reply
EMORY
how do you stop the HMOs? there’s so much money at stake here. as long as they have money and lobbying power THERE WILL NEVER BE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IN THIS COUNTRY. not in my lifetime. not ever. I SAY BLOW THE F#CKERS UP!!
By MONROE on Jul 8, 2009 | Reply
BRENT
Health care, more accurately called Sick Care, is NOT a right it is a privilege.
Most health insurance is not insurance. It is more accurately call health maintenance. You insure against major catastrophes - acute injuries.
You maintain your sickness and mask your symptoms with drugs and expensive treatments.
Health costs will ONLY decrease when the end customers cares about the price and can price compare.