Stunned, but not surprised, at the Supreme Court decision giving corporations increased pershood ( Corporate Personhood), allowing them to wield all their power and money to purchase candidates and elections, and seeing a distinct trend, I thought it important to take part in Blog for Choice again this year.
Today is the 5th Blog For Choice day …
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 …
Mellow on Monday I am, so much so that it’s now Tuesday. No dutiful dysphemistic metaphors today, merely a congeries of nerve pluckers. Unlike nerve twitchers, which continue their spasmodic meandering through the psyche for some time, making them a significant and serious annoyance, a nerve plucker is merely an external itch. Once scratched, …
Not even a public option here, despite from 2000 to 2007, profits at the 10 largest publicly-traded health insurance companies went up 428 percent. CEOs at these companies made an average of $11.9 million in 2007. In the past nine years, health insurance premiums have more than doubled — a rate three times faster than wage …
