Did anyone else have healthcare picketers near their work?

[Drachen]

Be honest. Your job is sitting at the entrance of the Frontage rd selling newspapers.

I thought I made that painfully obvious.

[Drachen]

In the coal plant here in Tennessee, they sell the residue (from burning the coal "clean") to a cement company as filler.

Wonderful! This is what I am talking about. I am sure that if we produced an abundance of anything that (initially) nobody wanted, and it was cheap, that SOMEONE would find a use for it.

[Drachen]

"The rally is one of a nationwide wave of protests today in about 150 cities -- including events outside the Cigna headquarters in Philadelphia and the United Health Group headquarters in Minneapolis -- to highlight the private health insurance industry's misdeeds and to call for reform that guarantees good, affordable health care and includes the choice of a strong national public health insurance option."


"The national day of protest is sponsored by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a broad coalition of community and religious groups, unions, MoveOn.Org, and others. HCAN expects that today's events, and those in subsequent weeks, will re-energize a grassroots movement and push Congress -- including several conservative Senate Democrats now resisting a public option -- to enact significant reform."

"WellPoint is one of the insurance industry giants leading the charge against President Barack Obama's plan to create a "public option" -- essentially an expansion of Medicare for working families -- to create more compe ion and give consumers more choices.
Ironically, WellPoint is one of a handful of insurance companies that have a virtual iron grip on the insurance market in almost every state. The American Medical Association reports that 94 percent of insurance markets in more than 300 metropolitan areas are now highly concentrated. WellPoint runs Blue Cross-Blue Shield plans in 14 states. In Maine, for example, WellPoint controls 78% of the health insurance market. It dominates the market in Missouri, with 68% of the business, as well as in its home state of Indiana (60%), Georgia (61%), New Hampshire (51%), Kentucky (59%), Connecticut (55%), Virginia (50%), Ohio (41%, with the next largest company garnering only 17% of the market), and Colorado (with 29%, larger than runner-up United Health Group, with 24% of market share). In New York and California, WellPoint ranks second, with 21% and 20% of the health insurance market, respectively, in those two huge states.
These near-monopolistic conditions -- where one or two companies dominate the insurance market -- allow big corporations like WellPoint to drive up premiums, restrict coverage, and take advantage of consumers."

.... the "free market" will over clients every time, reducing compe ion until an effective monopoly can be abusive. It's the nature of capitalism.


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Thank you very much boutons-2

[rjv]

no big deal. if someone wants to be an idiot let them be. it's not as if there aren't posters here already who cross the line all the time as it is.