SEANC to protest Blue Cross

@BradleysCreek:"Are you a paid shill for BCBS's anri-public choice marketing plan"

Sorry, no, just a lone citizen who chooses to make his voice heard. I did my best to speak out against the stimulus plan and now I've moved on to this issue.

I've got a degree in history, so I'm pretty well versed with the evolution of the American financial and political system.

One of the comments said "we need a public option."

How about this for a public option: a proper diet and regular exercise.

Not likely. People would rather sit around the fast food restaurant eating sausage biscuits with gravy, fries and a sweet tea while all the time complaining about who is going to take of their health.

We eat, smoke and drink ourselves into a coma but demand we get a fast ambulance and excellent health care. Because we have earned it. LOL

One way to control Doctor's salaries is to let more people enter the profession. Medical schools control the number of people who get in. I know of students with impeccable grades to get turned down just because it is all about who you know in order to get in. Also, doctors need to drop insurance companies for their liability coverage and contribute to some kind of pooled contribution to cut down on their insurance costs. Insurance has become almost like a governing body in some ways.

roroca wrote:

"You have some doctors that make exorbitant salaries."

Who is going to be in charge of regulating salaries? What will the salary be of the guy who regulates salaries? Will the regulator have unlimited powers? Will the regulator have a government owned dacha or will it be privately owned?

To each according to his needs...........

".........do you honestly not realize we're already in a welfare state for corporations?"

Oh come now! Surely we are a welfare state for more than just the corporations. I think our welfare state includes quite a few more groups than just those nasty private enterprise corporations. Those mean ol' corporations are just concerned about making a "profit!" What a dirty word.......profit! The word should be banned from public discourse.

Making a profit is un-American. Except maybe for those ACORN workers who got paid for voter registration cards. And that guy should have gotten more than one dollar for registering Mickey Mouse. Look how many people have been looking for Mickey Mouse for years and years. That's like finding Bigfoot.

It's just not fair.

P.S. Some corporations only employ a few people and would disagree that all corporations get any break at all! They are struggling like everyone else and don't consider themselves to be recipients of anything but more taxes and more regulations........from both the Feds and the state! Use a trim brush when you paint the windows. Less of a mess and a better paint job.

We need a public option. Today we have insurance companies including the supposedly non-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield making tons of money. As an example in 6 years, with very little claims, my premiums have gone from 600 to over 1200 per month. Yet little is covered.

In addition, I look online and can buy Canadian prescriptions for cheaper than my insurance co-pay.

You have some doctors that make exorbitant salaries. You can bet they are Republican.

Business in our country is having a hard time competing due to medical costs.

I think it is very funny that all of a sudden the insurance companies and hospitals have come up with ways to save money.

We are being milked and it has to be stopped. The system we have is a form of blackmail by the medical industry.

In response to bradleyscreek:

"............who are only out for themselves."

And here I assume you are speaking of the SEANC?

"Government has no business taking over any part of the economy?" Poor Mr. Sykes. Are you a paid shill for BCBS's anri-public choice marketing plan run by NC's famous DINO lobbyist or do you honestly not realize we're already in a welfare state for corporations?

Don't you realize that the feds have subsidized Goldman Sachs and hundreds of other multimillionaires through tax breaks, tax havens, and these outrageous stimulus giveaways while letting the rest of us, who better managed our money, stew in unemployment and foreclosures?

If Main Street doesn't take over this economy, including healthcare, through some decent elected representatives from any/all sides of the aisle, it will continue to be raided by our corporatocracy, who are only out for themselves.

Please sign my petition to Kay Hagan in opposition to the public choice option. It will be delivered to her later this summer.