@Aetna CEO Threatens Doubling (100%) of Insurance Premiums
Well, the same big-profit insurance CEO who threatened Americans with layoffs and suffering a month ago in a temper tantrum over the so-called fiscal cliff is now threatening America's individuals and...
View ArticleI Just Called The NRA...And Got A Smug, Disgusting Response
I have worked as an educator in both the United States and Latin America. In every single place in which I have worked, I have interacted with students who have lost family members to gun violence, who...
View ArticleImagine if this outstanding message of hope and justice went viral...
Imagine, friends, if in this holiday season, this truly outstanding message of cruelty from the big-profit insurance industry and message of hope in the form of a single-payer argument went...
View ArticleI think I am a conservative.
I have realized that, perhaps, I really am a conservative at heart. I would support this politician. Read some inspiring words of solidarity and progress -- can you resist?This is just one of many...
View ArticleCan We Vote Down This Vomit-Inducing AIG Advert?
Well, we can't comment on this, but AIG is spending big bucks -- that they wouldn't have without the bailout -- to pimp themselves on You Tube. Can I kindly request your support to vote this video...
View ArticleNY Times: Health Insurers Raise Some Rates By Double Digits
Did you know that the so-called fiscal cliff deal eliminated any additional government money to finance co-ops as competition for big-profit insurers? Why is this problematic? Well, they were at least...
View ArticleWendy's Cuts Employee Hours To Evade ObamaCare; Asking To Lose Business?
It appears one Nebraska Wendy's franchisee is taking a play from the Red Lobster book and choosing to freeload off the government for employee health care (which would be totally cool if we had...
View Article@WellmarkBCBS Health Insurance Uses Dishonest Dinner Metaphor To Turn Public...
Wellmark, an insurer covering Iowa and South Dakota, has created an insane new video -- based on a dinner party metaphor -- to explain how health care reform will lend more equity to insurance...
View ArticleMan Threatens President Obama's Life To Get Medical Care In Prison
This story is kind of ironic. In a morally sick America in which -- well, until 2014 -- health care is still a privilege for the wealthy, a man felt the need the need to threaten the life of the man...
View Article@AHIPCoverage: Wendell Potter Shows The Emperor Has No Clothes, Private...
Wow, just wow. This is one of Wendell Potter's best columns:Several years ago, a coworker asked our CEO during a staff meeting what kept him up at night. He responded with a single word:...
View ArticleCase Study: Guns Kill People, People Don't Kill People
If this paranoid man was not holding a gun in his hand, an innocent man who just wanted to go iceskating would be alive tonight:A 69-year-old war veteran and former missionary was arrested over the...
View ArticleFCC Proposes Groundbreaking Free Public Wi-Fi Throughout United States;...
Imagine telling AT&T you're done with dropped calls, or telling T-Mobile you're done with slow data. Yes, elections matter, and the FCC is proposing something spectacular for Americans...assuming...
View ArticleNavy Seal -- And His Family -- Who Shot Bin Laden Is Medically Uninsured
There are some anecdotes, such as when people need to go to jail to get health care, that just make you realize how insane it is that there is no real universal health care in America. This is probably...
View Article9-Year Old Boy Killed By 'Random' Shooting While Travelling in Car With Family
'I mean, a day does not go by without some sort of shooting involving children.' -- Fox News Woman.'So random...' -- Fox News Man.Yes, this occurred just a couple seconds ago, and it made me very...
View ArticleAll Hands On Deck: Georgia About To Commit Massive Human Rights Violation;...
The lights are about to go out in Georgia...again:Warren Hill has an IQ of 70 and placed in the third percentile on his middle-school standardized test. Doctors have found him to be "mildly mentally...
View ArticleDunkin' Donuts Lobbying Feds To Change Definition Of Full-Time Employment To...
Yup, again, a low-wage employer is begging for the government to remove the burden of health care from his books by implementing single-payer Medicare for all Americans. (Or, well, that is what they...
View Article#WarrenHill Execution Stayed; Georgia Torturing Mentally Handicapped Man;...
First, yes, Warren Hill killed two people. I want to get that out of the way. It's horrible that it happened.Still, our Constitution bans torture and cruel treatment, both of which Mr. Hill is...
View ArticleI feel sorry for health insurance companies. Yes, I said that. Why? This Time...
MD Anderson, Yale New Haven Hospital, you name any major, respected non-profit hospital or medical center in America and the truth is that they are ripping off the most vulnerable of Americans -- the...
View Article@Aetna Forces Young Cancer Patients To Beg For Health Care On Twitter
UPDATE: Just since this diary was posted, it has been learned that Aetna-owned Coventry Health is denying a five-year old child the common surgery necessary to hear. Yes, if this child was in Canada,...
View ArticleAetna CEO @mtbert Sees Salary Triple (Well, Quadruple); Company Plans To Spit...
The same CEO who pledged to make Americans 'suffer' during the fiscal cliff drama, lives in a mansion on a mountain with a hot tub, and is spitting in the face of our President and democracy by openly...
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