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This guy is a really nice chap. Call up Direct Line and tell them that Hank Hill sent you.
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Credits
Video:
Shot by Brian Fairbanks
Edited by Jesse Freeston
Produced by Marco Ceglie & Andrew Boyd
Song:
Lyric and Arrangement by Felonius Ax
Vocals by J. Paul Geddy Lee
Chorus: Rhea Cission & X. S. Profette
Electric guitars & bass: Djingle-Djangle Reinhardt
Acoustic guitar: J. Paul Geddy Lee
Snare drums: Georgie O’Marauder
Recorded and mixed by Georgie O’Marauder
Produced by Felonius Ax
Full lyrics by Felonious Ax:
Battle Hymn of the Health Insurance Companies
(AKA Let’s Save The Status Quo)
(to the tune of Battle Hymn Of The Republic)
Rejoice and let us glory in the profits we attain
By rationing the remedies for suffering and pain.
And no one’s gonna mess with all our monetary gain.
Let’s save the status quo!
Chorus:
If our healthcare corporation
Never faces regulation,
We’ll be brimming with elation!
Let’s save the status quo!
We bought a bunch of senators and congresspeople too.
They serve our corporate interests and we tell them what to do.
This gravy train will stop the day a healthcare bill gets through.
Let’s save the status quo!
Chorus: If our healthcare corporation (etc.)
Our PR team is crackerjack. Were framing the debate!
Were spreading lots of lies and were unleashing lots of hate.
Well drive a stake into the bill the day it leaves the gate.
Let’s save the status quo!
Chorus: If our healthcare corporation (etc.)
A decent public option is an option we wont bear.
And Medicare for Everyone would kill our market share.
Well never win the game if all the rules are just and fair.
Let’s save the status quo!
Chorus: If our healthcare corporation (etc.)
In every other wealthy nation healthcare is a right.
But not here in America, no not without a fight!
Were fighting for the right to monstrous profits day and night.
Let’s save the status quo!
Chorus: If our healthcare corporation (etc.)
Lyric by Felonius Ax
Minister of Musical Manipulation
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and do the tax payers pay this indirectly?
which percentage roughly of medical bills do insurance companies actually pay you think? and why this is the case? when, why such legislation was passed in the USA allowing this ?
why insurance companies (officialy reason) get reimbursed or payed beforehand for medical expenses and is this why the hospitals, doctors as well as drug companies negotiate such crazy high prices with insurance companies for medical practices as well as drugs?
please explain what you can and how this compares to Britain or Europe or Canada , Japan, China or Australia if you know?
thanks for your answers!
I don’t think you understand the role of Insurance Companies in US healthcare.
Basically, most US healthcare service providers are private individuals and companies. Most people purchase (privately or through employers) Health Insurance, with monthly premiums paid, and any covered costs reimbursed when needed. It is in the best interests of insurance providers to keep costs low, so they often negotiate lower rates with providers. They also restrict coverage when possible. There is a broad range of insurance options available. from very basic to gold plated plans that cover almost any conceivable need. The cost of these plans varies commensurately.
The US Government does not pay insurance companies, except as regards to insuring their own employees
For those who choose or are unable to obtain insurance, direct payments must be made to the providers. That explains why medical costs are the leading cause of US bankruptcies.
The US government has a small role to play. They do provide programs for the very lowest income people and seniors (Medicare, Medicaid), but it is the estimated 40 million caught in the middle who suffer the most.
I can only compare this to the UK, Canada, and Australia. In the UK, medical providers are not private, they work for the NHS, and the NHS hires the people, builds the facilities, etc. Entirely different than the US.
In Canada, the providers are private, but we have a single payer system, where all residents are covered by a government health plan, which covers the costs.
In Australia, it’s a little of both. They have national healthcare, but also have a side by side private system that people can pay to be a part of. Want to go to a government hospital? No charge, but you will have longer waits and basic care. Want to stay in a plush wood panelled room, with a wine list? You can pay for that option.
Results are what tell the story. The US system is 30-50% more expensive than any of the others. Canada, the UK, Australia have roughly similar outcomes, based on rates of illness, child mortality, life expectancy. The US tends to be substantially worse. Not catastrophically worse, but statistically noticeable. In some areas, such as cancer survival, the US creeps ahead, but overall, you are going to live longer and be more healthy in one of the other countries.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/profile.htmlHealth insurance companies vs. Michael Moore. Bill Moyers interviews former Health Insurance industry executive Wendell Potter, who left the field after almost 20 years to become a health reform advocate. Check out Potters take on the campaign against Michael Moores film Sicko and tune in to Bill Moyers Journal, Friday, July 10, 2009 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html for his experiences inside the health insurance industry, their work fighting a public option, and the Insurance Companies close ties to Washington. The entire interview will be available after broadcast at http://www.pbs.org/moyers
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http://www.citizensposse.com
On March 9th in Washington, DC, a citizens’ posse – thousands strong – descended on the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where the Insurance Companies were meeting to plot to KILL health reform. They came to arrest the insurance companies, and that’s what they did.
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Local Chicago Insurance company, Get Legal with Eagle. Featuring Eagleman
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“In this system, the way it’s set up, the way the Health Insurance industry makes a profit is by restricting access and denying care.” — Geri Jenkins, RN, President, California Nurses Association
http://www.michaelmoore.com cares.
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**I don’t need quotes, I need printable proof of insurance**
I know The General offers instant proof of insurance by printing it straight from the internet, are there any other auto Insurance Companies that offer it?
I don’t want to know about quotes or estimates or any silly site about comparing prices.
I want to know what companies you can go to their site and print your insurance proof off of AT HOME so you can go driving asap.
Any company that allows you to purchase without going through an agency. Progressive, Geico, etc. but not State Farm etc.
The insurance companies can then just charge as much as they want to people that have expensive preexisting medical conditions. For example you have diabetes, you go to get insurance, the company says sure we would love to insure you for 1000/month. Who can afford that? The government would have to also tell the Insurance Companies how much they are allowed to charge for it to help any.
It’s that much without diabetes. With diabetes the number will be astranomical.
It may actually be better to get a low wage paying job and make the government provide assistance, than to work a skilled job and have it taken away.
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n the second part of our interview with Deborah Burger, Deborah explains why nurses are supporting HR 676 as the solution to the health coverage problems of the US. Deborah explains how the inclusion of private Insurance Companies in the provision of health care has created the problems that the US has, that other countries do not. For this reason, Obama’s plan cannot resolve the problem as it does not remove the insurance companies from the picture.
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