Post “Fake” Holiday Rant

Accor­ding to the Washing­ton Post, New Bill Would Raise Rates, Says Insu­rance Group).…

“After months of colla­bo­ra­tion on Pre­si­dent Obama’s attempt to overhaul the nation’s health-care sys­tem, the insu­rance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Mon­day with a report war­ning that the typi­cal family pre­mium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than projected.”

Well what a big sur­prise that is ..not.

This report has been dub­bed at least par­tially ques­tio­na­ble by Joh­nathan Gru­ber. Read ( New Paper Pre­dicts Lower Pre­miums, At Least for Some). He finds some of the claims implausible.

There is enough truth in it to see that those in the middle are scre­wed. Dam­ned if we do and dou­ble dam­ned if we don’t. Enough in this report to make me, should be all of us, want to bite the very industry who com­mis­sio­ned the report.

We need to Natio­na­lize this sys­tem of health care, remove the insu­rance industry from it alto­gether, and have them redi­rect their greed toward those who actually have the extra thou­sands of dollars a year to spend on exor­bi­tant life insu­rance poli­cies, pri­vate room, and spa cove­rage. like they did in Swi­tzer­land. Wha­te­ver the various public options out there now, they stink. “The Public Option”, or the alter­na­ti­ves out there currently, are messy jokes being pla­yed on us.

The eco­no­mists, bless their little eggheads, all having insu­rance, tend to look at things from aloft, as if they are stud­ying it under a mic­ros­cope. The eco­nomy, and by that health care, merely a spe­ci­men they have no real ves­ted inte­rest in. Most of the eco­no­mist we read rarely apply their theo­ries in real life, and remem­ber how badly they fai­led us over the last ten years.

Go with your Gut.

I hate not being able to do my ban­king on a day off.

Colum­bus Day pfffft. He did unleash a future of bru­tal Spa­nish con­quis­ta­dors on the Carib­bean though.


Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your Ame­ri­can His­tory Text­book Got Wrong

a com­ments off, rest in peace production

peace

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