Comments on: ACORN Backed Group Now Targeting “Enemies” Of Obamacare

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:19:52 +0000

Hey guys I just got an email from my husbands work that had a bunch of your information and some photos of a tea party in chicago. My family has been looking for groups like this who are against Obama and what he is doing to our country. Right now we live in Utah and want to know if there are any active groups in the area that are against him and how do we get involved?

By: BackwardsBoy

BackwardsBoy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:07:58 +0000

It’s good to see from the comments that Obama’s efforts to paint insurance companies as evil just because they show a profit has failed.

When I had my heart attack in early August, I was in surgery for a double bypass before the defibrillator paddles were cool. Call me biased if you will, but I didn’t find anything wrong with my care. And I’m fond of the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Obama’s and the Dims efforts to take over the finest health care system in the world is questionable at best, and I’ll fight it as long as I can.

By: Steve Adams

Steve Adams — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:10:48 +0000

“And I wonder where the per-capita money we in the U.S. spend goes, twice as much or more than other industrialized countries, if not to the insurance companies.”. Yes we should stop spending so much of our GDP on health care and spend it on entertainment instead. Free Nfl tickets for all!!!!

By: Vader

Vader — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:56:05 +0000

“And I wonder where the per-capita money we in the U.S. spend goes, twice as much or more than other industrialized countries, if not to the insurance companies.”

If you really believe that’s the case, you’re a flaming idiot not to invest everything you can in insurance company stock. Their profits must be huge.

… So how much stock do you own in insurance companies?

By: skatzbert

skatzbert — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:55:44 +0000

“A government-run healthcare plan would be only marginally more faceless and unaccountable than Blue Cross.”

Indeed. BUT… they would be utterly unaccountable in the courts. They have sovereign immunity.

By: red

red — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:46:06 +0000

And I wonder where the per-capita money we in the U.S. spend goes, twice as much or more than other industrialized countries, if not to the insurance companies.

— Have you ever heard of malpractice lawyers?

and its not twice as much as all countries.

http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/chcm010307oth.cfm

By: Rick Caird

Rick Caird — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:35:28 +0000

John, John, John. The insurance company does not keep that money. They pass about 90 of it on to the medical provider. They keep about 3.5% as profit. The rest is for administrative.

I get a little tired of people who cannot seem to read an income statement making these crazy statements about insurance companies.

We spend more per capita on medical because we can. We want the MRI tomorrow, not a month or two from now. We want to see out doctor, if not today, then tomorrow. John, do you think that is free?

Rick

By: John

John — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:16:40 +0000

“Only a leftist would be angry at an insurance company”?
A government-run healthcare plan would be only marginally more faceless and unaccountable than Blue Cross. And I wonder where the per-capita money we in the U.S. spend goes, twice as much or more than other industrialized countries, if not to the insurance companies.

By: Cargosquid

Cargosquid — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:48:33 +0000

Bring it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:15:50 +0000

You can always count on unions for unseemly behavior.