Health Insurance Is Really Making Me Sick

This is just one of the many stories on the state of the health care industry in the United States. From yesterday on MSNBC.

How is it that men in suits that sit at desks make decisions about who gets coverage, how much it costs and who is at risk.

According to the report, the health insurance industry is about to launch a campaign to make itself look good. Kind of like when Phillip Morris ran advertisements about how you could quit smoking...it's all such a farse. They don't really care. They want you to buy their cigarettes and most smart people know it.

"Campaign for an American Solution" (I recommend scrolling to the MD comments after the article) will launch a listening tour in Columbus, OH that records that small percent of Americans who are satisfied with their insurance coverage.

Richard Kirsch, president for Health Care for America Now, a non-profit joining forces with a ton of other groups - see here - to combat the health insurance industry. Kirsch told MSNBC, "the health insurance industry is free to reject who they want and charges unfairly based on risk. If you’re older you get charged more. If you’re a woman you get charged more.”

Loved this very true statement from another activist:

Brian Rothenberg, the Executive Director of Progress Ohio, railed against the lack of progress in health care reform despite the fact that “it’s been 16 years since the health care debate first came on the national scene.” He said that many people are “one bad boss, one difficult decision at work away from being unemployed and having no health insurance.”