"We thought we had good insurance, and when the time came, it just wasn't there,"

brentspeak

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Mon Aug-31-09 12:00 PM
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"We thought we had good insurance, and when the time came, it just wasn't there,"

This is why a private health insurance mandate is nothing but a pile of crap; only a universal public insurance option can hope to catalyze health-care reform.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090822/STATEFAIR/908220335/-1/BUSINESS04

Robert Huber of Cedar Falls said his personal story motivated him to fight for a government health-insurance option. In 2006, he started having health problems and for two months battled the bureaucracy of his John Deere health insurance. Huber finally made it into University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City, where a cardiologist told him he had heart failure and was near death. He now has a pacemaker and a defibrillator.

"We thought we had good insurance, and when the time came, it just wasn't there," Huber said.

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hobbit709

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Mon Aug-31-09 12:02 PM
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1. Universal Single Payer Healthcare NOW!

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havocmom

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Mon Aug-31-09 12:07 PM
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2. Yep. Forcing people to patronize corporations who lie and cheat

is NOT viable 'reform'. We MUST have an alternative to corporations if they are going to be made to serve patrons as they contracted.

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joeycola

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Mon Aug-31-09 12:13 PM
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3. even the House bill allows employers a 5 year window.

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truedelphi

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Mon Aug-31-09 02:40 PM
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8. I agree. Only I'd have said

Lie, cheat AND KILL.

Because it basically is murder.

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debbierlus

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Mon Aug-31-09 12:51 PM
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4. Kick

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Bonobo

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Mon Aug-31-09 01:34 PM
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5. Kick.

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LiberalFighter

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Mon Aug-31-09 02:00 PM
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6. There is a major disadvantage for most when they have to deal with claim denials.

Most people don't have someone that works in the interest the insured when there are problems. They have to deal with the insurance company as an individual.

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truedelphi

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Mon Aug-31-09 02:38 PM
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7. K & R number thirteen. n/t

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Liberal_Stalwart71

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Mon Aug-31-09 02:47 PM
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9. My head is beginning to burst due to my depression. Why isn't the issue of recission not being

adequately covered by the M$M or anywhere else, other than liberal talk radio?

I'm so distraught over this...

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subterranean

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Mon Aug-31-09 05:54 PM
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11. Probably because it affects only a small percentage of people.

Most Americans who have insurance get it through their employers, and rescission doesn't occur in group plans. It only happens to those with individual insurance, who make up a relatively small part of the insurance market. Rescission would be prohibited under all of the reform proposals.

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Raven

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Mon Aug-31-09 03:22 PM
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10. EXACTLY!!! The hidden truth. You don't know if your health insurance

will work for you until it doesn't work for you. That's why many people in this country are complaicent about this. They just don't know what they're in for until they get sick.

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Puzzler

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Mon Aug-31-09 06:00 PM
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12. The was a Monty Python sketch years ago...

Insurance Agent to client:

"Sorry, sir... we'd like to help you, but you bought our Never Pay Policy"

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