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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect the apologist for the insurance industry who's been posting in this thread all day in fact is an employed wonk with the insurance industry. LOL.[/quote]

Yeah, that poster seems to be worshipping soundbites.   [/quote]

workshopping[/quote]

Well they aren’t working.

Honestly, healthcare IS a basic human right. As a society we’ve developed the science to treat disease and ease suffering. [b]Why a big fat insurance CEO needs to get a big cash bonus before humans are treated is simply bizarre.[/b] [/quote]

I get it money, makes the world go around it is what it is. But health insurance companies should not be publicly traded and should be as doctor/patient focused as possible. The responsibility to the shareholders cannot outweigh the responsibility to the customers who need the care.[/quote]

What about a responsibility to their customers to keep premiums down?[/quote]

It’s easier to keep premiums down when you’re not paying a bunch of execs multi million dollar salaries.

This whole thing has made really re-evaluate how we think of money in this country. So many people think rich people deserve it because they “worked hard” and think of money in terms of belonging to someone.

But the reality is that money is a form of currency created by our government for the benefit of its citizens. It is printed by our treasury, insured by our FDIC, and taxed through our IRS. To make money, corporations benefit from things like federally funded highways, government research grants, etc.

We need to start looking at money as something inherently belonging to our country and our policies are how we think the money should be transferred around to incentivize creation, but also provide societal stability. No one is inherently entitled to money and just because we *can* create the current system where most of the money is owned by a small percent of people (and often recirculated amongst the offspring of those people or tucked away in a bank) doesn’t mean we should do that.

I’m not saying we need to be a socialist country, but I do think we need to stop with the mentality of money being something that belongs to particular individuals.[/quote]

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