Health Ins co profits secure, lets go after gas hikes!!

[Fabbs]

Repugs!,

With the jovial Mass win comes the hope that health ins co's profits will continue to gouge for many more years. But lets not rest. Remember what was just a few short years ago when Exxon and our oil bois had record breaking profits and the US consumer paid 5 buck plus per gallon?

Lets win this back!!
Lets get gas back to 5-6 bucks a gallon!
Lets help our oil company friends!

We may not have George Bush anymore, but dadgummit lets have more tea bag parties and this time make it for our oil bois!

[coyotes_geek]

:wakeup

[boutons_deux]

Raping citizens is what corporate "persons" do every day.

[Wild Cobra]

Is this going to be another libtarded thread?

[TeyshaBlue]

Is this a thread? I can't see for all the straw.

[DarrinS]

This guy agrees with the OP.

http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/wp-content/uploads/chavez-parrot.jpg

[boutons_deux]

righties defending the for-extortionate-profit health insurers, oilcos, banksters, ANY mega-corp.

Just more proof that they are ALWAYS wrong.

[jack sommerset]

My sister is a FAR lefty. She said the repugs caused the gas to drop because they wanted McCain to win but after Obama won it kept going down. LOL Far left loons.

Drill NOW!

[EmptyMan]

Looking forward to it.

Nothing like seeing the country suddenly quit caring about the endangered water beaked cockatoo and demand we tap our own resources.

[boutons_deux]

I contribute facts, while you contribue Repug/corp bullshit


"Towers Perrin, medical malpractice tort costs were $30.4 billion in 2007, the last year for which data are available. We have a more than a $2 trillion health care system. That puts litigation costs and malpractice insurance at 1 to 1.5 percent of total medical costs. That’s a rounding error. Liability isn’t even the tail on the cost dog. It’s the hair on the end of the tail."

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/would-tort-reform-lower-health-care-costs/

then figure that maybe 10% of the 1.5% is fraud/frivolous, and us smart people see right through the tort reform bullshit as nothing but corporate bullshit.

[Fabbs]

Is this going to be another libtarded thread?
Is this another chicken weighing in or rather running off?
bok bok bok bok ba-GAWK!

[Fabbs]

bok bok bok bok ba-GAWK.

Come on Repugs! Show some teabag enthusiasm for returning Exxons profits and getting the consumer to pay $5+ a gallon.

[DarrinS]

bok bok bok bok ba-GAWK.

Come on Repugs! Show some teabag enthusiasm for returning Exxons profits and getting the consumer to pay $5+ a gallon.



How much is a gallon of gas in Europe?


And why is that?


/thread

[Fabbs]

How much is a gallon of gas in Europe?


And why is that?


/thread
stoopid 'Pug evasive response.
How much is a gallon of gas in Venezuala?
And why is that?

[TeyshaBlue]

stoopid 'Pug evasive response.
How much is a gallon of gas in Venezuala?
And why is that?

What's your point, assuming you have one? Your OP is so fucking flawed it defies rational debate. So, what is your point?

[Marcus Bryant]

righties defending the for-extortionate-profit health insurers, oilcos, banksters, ANY mega-corp.

Just more proof that they are ALWAYS wrong.

That's rather amusing considering that it was the left-wing party which has attempted, and is still attempting, to force the working and middle classes of this country to hand over a significant part of their income and/or savings to "for-extortionate-profit health insurers."

Get back in your cage.

[Marcus Bryant]

Not to mention that the Dems are in bed with Wall Street as much as the GOP ever was. Only the retarded believe there is some stark difference. Maybe those who jack off when they're reading something by Thomas Frank or Paul Krugman (the NYT years) believe it.

[Winehole23]

a much favored theme of ribaldry (http://dictionary.die.net/ribaldry) in these pages

[Marcus Bryant]

My sister is a FAR lefty. She said the repugs caused the gas to drop because they wanted McCain to win but after Obama won it kept going down. LOL Far left loons.

Drill NOW!

You want to drill your sister "NOW"? I think that's illegal in most states, save for Arkansas and Alabama.

[DarrinS]

Not to mention that the Dems are in bed with Wall Street as much as the GOP ever was. Only the retarded believe there is some stark difference. Maybe those who jack off when they're reading something by Thomas Frank or Paul Krugman (the NYT years) believe it.

:lmao


The only person who jacks off when they read Krugman is probably Krugman.

[Winehole23]

It's odd to me that anyone would have any knowledge or curiosity about that at all, let alone such breezy risibility and giddiness, but oh well. It's a free country.

[NSA]

010100101011101010 jack 010101111 off

[boutons_deux]

"to force the working and middle classes of this country to hand over a significant part of their income and/or savings to "for-extortionate-profit health insurers." "

That gouging is already happening, and will continue to worsen, without a strong public option, which the Repugs and DINOs forced out.

Take it up with them, not me.

[boutons_deux]

"How much is a gallon of gas in Europe?"

$7 - $9, almost all of it in tax.

Europe had the responsible adults running the show, rather than their oilcos, to prevent Europe from becoming as badly addicted to oil as US is and to force people into public transport and highly efficient, 4-cyl cars.

Europe has gotten break in oil price due to the weak $, but of course they may someday swing the other way.

[DarrinS]

"How much is a gallon of gas in Europe?"

$7 - $9, almost all of it in tax.

Europe had the responsible adults running the show, rather than their oilcos, to prevent Europe from becoming as badly addicted to oil as US is and to force people into public transport and highly efficient, 4-cyl cars.





So, lefty Euros have fewer choices and pay more for gas because "big brother" knows what's best?

F*ck that.

I'll take more freedom at lower cost/gallon.

[boutons_deux]

European countries are democracies, they've repeatedly re-elected Big Brothers of left and right for decades, while leaving the gas taxes high.

Your "freedom" is fool's gold, fool. And I note that you aren't fighting in Iraq for your oil addiction.

[Marcus Bryant]

And I note you aren't using mass transit.

Whoopdefuckingdo.

[Marcus Bryant]

You dirty filthy Repug/darth cheney/oilco/dubya/chickenhawk lover...blah blah blah...blah blah....blah

[TeyshaBlue]

You dirty filthy Repug/darth cheney/oilco/dubya/chickenhawk lover...blah blah blah...blah blah....blah

BushHaliburonKatrinaChimpNazi

[Fabbs]

You dirty filthy Repug/darth cheney/oilco/dubya/chickenhawk lover...blah blah blah...blah blah....blah


BushHaliburonKatrinaChimpNazi
C'mon 'Pugs! Gas actually went down this past couple weeks.
Lets get that teabag on and Praise Exxon!
Bring back the glory days with our beloved Bush!

[Fabbs]

Okay Repugs it's been well over a year now.
We are not losing jobs at 750,000 per month!
Gas is no where near $5 a gallon.

Get off your asses and channel our beloved leader of 2000-2008.

[Fabbs]

http://www.noatodo.org/files/2009/02/george-bush-monkey.jpg
C'mon you board Pugs, get your scheme on.
That gas price isn't going to raise itself.

[DarrinS]

I love when attention whores bump their own ancient threads.

[TeyshaBlue]

Okay Repugs it's been well over a year now.
We are not losing jobs at 750,000 per month!
Gas is no where near $5 a gallon.

Get off your asses and channel our beloved leader of 2000-2008.


What's your point, assuming you have one? Your OP is so fucking flawed it defies rational debate. So, what is your point?
:wakeup

[CosmicCowboy]

So what is a reasonable profit for a health insurance company? 10%? Give me a number.

[Winehole23]

I love when attention whores bump their own ancient threads.Turn it around on yourself, johnny one note. Posting multiple threads on the same topic on the first page is even worse.

[CosmicCowboy]

So what is a reasonable profit for a health insurance company? 10%? Give me a number.

Well?

[Wild Cobra]

Well?
You don't expect liberals to actually think about something they have passion about, do you?

Conservative... vote by thinking.

Liberal... vote by feeling.

[boutons_deux]

Health insurers should be relegated to topping-up/complementary policies to cover what no-profit hard-core public option doesn't cover.

Health insurers are lying when they blame their above-average annual price hikes to health reform. They are using the health reform to hide their annual greedy grab.

They are getting millions more clients with taxpayer subsidies, and still they want more profits.

Like all the other huge fuckups in America, the health care sytem is beyond repair. The doctors and corps have too much power and will defeat any attempt on their greed.


WC, tell how the conservative tea baggers vote by thinking for, eg, ignorant hucksters like pitbull bitch and O'Dumbell. :lol

[Wild Cobra]

If you liberals don't like going though the insurance middleman, then pay for your doctor visits directly.

Insurance is a choice. Not a right.

[boutons_deux]

... skipping right past why Americans, with 50M uninsured, pay twice per capita for their medical care and drugs that other industrial countries.

Why do you "like' going through a gouging, for-profit middleman to get your health care?

[Winehole23]

Insurance is a choice. Not a right.In case you hadn't noticed, it recently became an obligation.

[ElNono]

If you liberals don't like going though the insurance middleman, then pay for your doctor visits directly.

Insurance is a choice. Not a right.

Give me the same subsidies and the same legislation that gave them the leverage Ins co have, and I won't have a problem paying out of pocket.

Until then, you're comparing orange to apples.

[Wild Cobra]

In case you hadn't noticed, it recently became an obligation.
It will be shot down in the courts.

[Wild Cobra]

Give me the same subsidies and the same legislation that gave them the leverage Ins co have, and I won't have a problem paying out of pocket.

Until then, you're comparing orange to apples.
Do you have an entitlement mentality?

Shame on you.

Insurance and medical care wouldn't be so expensive if we did things at the root level instead of these damn band-aid solutions. The root problems need fixed. People with insurance need to pay more in copays so they actually consider if they need to use the benefit or not. People with very small or no copays abuse the insurance intensively. This jacks up the costs for everyone. Regulations for medical providers need to be made in a more common sense fashion. Requirements add costs too. Lawsuits add extensive costs in various ways. We need some kind of fair tort reform that still allows accountability, but doesn't award people for getting hang nails.

[Fabbs]

Repugs back in power!

In the name of that beloved leader W Bush can we now get that gas back above $5 a gallon? Yee Haw!

[Wild Cobra]

Repugs back in power!

In the name of that beloved leader W Bush can we now get that gas back above $5 a gallon? Yee Haw!
Haven't you been watching? It's been slowly going up for some time. With today's $600,000,000,000 infusion from the fed, I'll bet they take another nice jump in price soon.

[Fabbs]

Haven't you been watching? My leaders will make sure it takes another nice jump in price soon.
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:_oyLTm950BLLqM:http://http://current.com/http://doctorbulldog.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/8130george-w-bush-monkey-posters.jpg&t=1


http://66.70.86.64/ChartServer/ch.gaschart?Country=Canada&Crude=f&Period=36&Areas=USA%20Average,,&Unit=US%20$/G

[boutons_deux]

It seems the that oil country Sovereign funds are giving money to Wall St commodity traders to trade up the price of oil, makeing $Bs for the traders and the oil countries.

When dubya and dickhead oilmen came into office, oil was $35/barrel. Price when he left office? Causality?

[DarrinS]

LOL @ attention whores bumping their own ancient bullshit.

[Fabbs]

I have nothing to say to refute the oil and gas prices when Bush was in so i just repeat my own continuous ancient bullshit.

[BlairForceDejuan]

This guy agrees with the OP.

http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/wp-content/uploads/chavez-parrot.jpg

Weeeeeeeeak. Putin would have had a Condor sitting on his shoulder.

[DarrinS]

I'm an attention whore.