Health insurers and their lobbying arms have spent $476.5 million since 2020 to block reform, protect profits, and mislead the public — and it’s coming straight from our premiums and tax dollars.
I am utterly frustrated by efforts of the Health Insurance Lobbyists to curry favor while patients are being denied care. No one in Congress has accountability to actually fix this broken mess called for-profit sick care, where investors are the winners, not patients and not US taxpayers. The Legislative Branch is so disconnected from its real constituents that we are left with a worse than mediocre product which we pay through the skin of our teeth, but health outcomes are less than stellar as Wall Street refuses to see what a mess our system is so long as the investors are happy. We are least competitive among all of the advanced economies when it comes to health care expenses and the situation is just becoming worse. It is an insult to our intelligence as the politicians get kickbacks in the form of election expenses being covered by the insurance sector. When are we going to arrest and charge these crooks with crimes that violate the basic protocols of the United Nations on Health Care.
So apparently the author of this article thinks that everything is just rosy with the Industrial Healthcare Complex in the US. I guess the gigantic Provider Groups don't also have a lobby that they use to get what they want from Congress. And as we all know the Healthcare system in the US isn't irretrievably broken right ? Wrong ! EVERYONE knows that it is so, so badly broken. What the Provider Groups are most concerned about is THE BOTTOM LINE. Caring and compassion for the patients left the Healthcare Industrial Complex a long, long time ago. Just demonize and make an enemy of the hand that feeds them. How incredibly stupid and arrogant is that ! The industry that pays (by far) the largest percentage of the income that you receive you want to bash. Brilliant strategy.
“This is not to say that reform is impossible. Scrappy advocacy groups with a tiny fraction of that total have scored important victories over the years.” Can you share a few to follow online? Thank you!
The Medicare for all Acts
Senate bill 1506
House Bill 3069 introduced April 29 in current 119th Congress.
Bills will be funded by a progressive tax.
The wealthy pay more.
The average household will pay several thousand dollars less per year than they do now with no deductibles or copays.
I don’t know if you’re aware, but CVS just got sued in LA for lobbying texts.
https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-cvs-lawsuit-text-message-liz-murrill-landry-38cfcac6ff3bed3ce6358ca7bab34214
I am utterly frustrated by efforts of the Health Insurance Lobbyists to curry favor while patients are being denied care. No one in Congress has accountability to actually fix this broken mess called for-profit sick care, where investors are the winners, not patients and not US taxpayers. The Legislative Branch is so disconnected from its real constituents that we are left with a worse than mediocre product which we pay through the skin of our teeth, but health outcomes are less than stellar as Wall Street refuses to see what a mess our system is so long as the investors are happy. We are least competitive among all of the advanced economies when it comes to health care expenses and the situation is just becoming worse. It is an insult to our intelligence as the politicians get kickbacks in the form of election expenses being covered by the insurance sector. When are we going to arrest and charge these crooks with crimes that violate the basic protocols of the United Nations on Health Care.
And we are supposed to trust the deny, delay, defend crowd?
So apparently the author of this article thinks that everything is just rosy with the Industrial Healthcare Complex in the US. I guess the gigantic Provider Groups don't also have a lobby that they use to get what they want from Congress. And as we all know the Healthcare system in the US isn't irretrievably broken right ? Wrong ! EVERYONE knows that it is so, so badly broken. What the Provider Groups are most concerned about is THE BOTTOM LINE. Caring and compassion for the patients left the Healthcare Industrial Complex a long, long time ago. Just demonize and make an enemy of the hand that feeds them. How incredibly stupid and arrogant is that ! The industry that pays (by far) the largest percentage of the income that you receive you want to bash. Brilliant strategy.
“This is not to say that reform is impossible. Scrappy advocacy groups with a tiny fraction of that total have scored important victories over the years.” Can you share a few to follow online? Thank you!