The Health Insurance Racket

By Robert Greenwald . Posted September 14, 2009.

Welcome to the American health insurance industry.

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CIGNAs Edward Hanway spends his holidays in a $13 million beach house in New Jersey. Meanwhile, regular Americans are routinely denied coverage for the care they need when they need it most.

Instead of helping policyholders attain the health security they need for their families, big insurance companies get rich by denying coverage to patients. Now theyre sending lobbyists to Washington, DC to twist the arms of lawmakers to oppose reform of the status quo. Why? Because the status quo pays.

Learn more at www.sickforprofit.com about the glamorous lives of billionaire health insurance executives and tell us your story of being victimized by their greed.

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Robert Greenwald is the director/producer of "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," as well as many other films. He is a board member of the Independent Media Institute, AlterNet's parent organization.

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Catch-22 [Report this comment] Posted by: Lilly on Sep 15, 2009 2:39 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] My neighbor retired early because she was so knocked out by a long serious illness involving her kidney. Her company, a household name from Corporate America, then informed her that they would be making a slight change in her medical insurance: it would no longer cover anything having to do with the kidneys. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] GROSS [Report this comment] Posted by: stickem Up on Sep 18, 2009 7:12 AM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] This is really gross. Everyone always talks about the CEO salaries which are ridiculous, but what about the cost of advertising? Curiously, medicare never needs to advertise. We already cover the elderly, the REALLY poor, veterans and congress people. Why can't all those people be in ONE program that anyone can buy into on a sliding scale? Anyone who wants to keep what they have can do so. That way the for-profit side will eventually be phased out instead of eliminated immediately. Meaning we have time to divest before the fall. I should be in Congress! The other baffling aspect of this is why don't corporations DEMAND that the goverment provide health care so they don't have to? Do they really think the taxes would be more than they currently pay for insurance? Seems unlikely. The corp. I work for is struggling and this would really help them. It also helps small business owners and it says, hey, we value everyone...but of course, we don't :( [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: GROSS Posted by: Sick2Death Convert Mts Files [Report this comment] Posted by: qinairuth on Sep 21, 2009 8:56 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] If you want to play your mts video from hd camcorder, you should get a video converter to convert your mts files to formats that your player supports, Convert Mts Files can help you do it well, batch conversion, editing functions(effect video, trim video, crop video), video settings, QuickTime Converter Edit AVCHD [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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