stock values.Potter explains it all insimple understandableterms so it is easy to un-derstand.He tells the inside story of Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17year-old girl in dire needof a liver transplant.CIGNA denied coveragesaying they would not pay

for ―experimental" proce-

dures. Under public pres-sure CIGNA changed itsmind to OK. But too late.Nataline died 2 hourslater.Then there is ThomasConcannon with multiplemyeloma, a rare form of cancer. His doctorsWendell Potter is a former executive of CIGNA insur-ance. He left that positionrecently after seeing whatthe insurance industry isdoing to consumers.There are three blog postsabout Mr. Potter.Bill Moyers interviewsWendell Potter on PBS;

Health Reform;andThey Dump the Sick to SatisfyInvestors. Potter explains how theinsurance industry hasmanipulated their busi-ness models to rid them-selves of unprofitable cus-tomers in order to in-crease their profits andearnings to placate WallStreet and increase their Conservatives and pro-gressives of Pahrump metoutside the Town Office of Pahrump while the SenateMajority Leader HarryReid met inside with NyeCounty Sheriff Tony De-Meo.I was told that the conser-vative demonstrators out-numbered the progres-sives 3-1.

I didn’t see any firearms

nor fights. I could hear some loud arguing goingon, but other than thatthere was no breach of the peace observed. I sawno cops. The two groupskept a respectable sepa-ration from each other.The conservative group

obviously doesn’t like

Harry Reid or healthcare

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reform.There were also pro-testers carrying home-

made ―Bury Harry‖ and―Goodbye Dirty Harry‖

signs.Readmore. planned to perform a bonemarrow transplant. CIGNAannounced it would notcover the operation.

Those decisions weren’tmade by ―government bu-reaucrats.‖ They weremade by ―insurance com-

pany bureaucrats" all in theinterests of their moneyinterests.SeeWall Street healthcare. Death panels anyone?

There are so manymisleading, false anddeceptive practicesinvolved in the current

―debate‖ or more aptly―argument‖

abouthealth insur-ance reform it is easyto get totally lost.So many people areallowing their emotionsto get in the way of making sound judg-ments about whether or not to reform themedical care system inthe United States it isgetting downright dan-gerous. The following,from FactCheck.org,analyzes one more.The Republican Na-tional Committee this

week posted a ―Health

Care Bill of Rights for

Seniors,‖

which RNC Chair-man MichaelSteele and othershave taken to the air-waves to publicize. Itcontains one new onethat has some truth toit, and another freshone that has very little.Readmore.

that a doctor will cometo resemble an I.R.S.agent with a scalpel.Yet the part of Amer-

ica’s

health care systemthat consumers likebest is the government-run part.Kristof points out that

―Fifty

-six to 60 percentNicholas Kris-tof, Pulitzer Prize win-ner, New York Times,writes that

—

Health care reform maybe defeated this year inpart because so manyAmericans believe the

government can’t do

anything right and fear of people rate govern-ment-run Medicare rateit at 9 or 10 on a 10-

point scale.‖

However lots of govern-ment run operations aresocialized. Examples of socialized programsinclude: firefighters, po-lice, education, postal

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Michael Steele

A conservative group withRepublican ties calledthe

Independent Women’s

Forum (IMF) is airing an ad

that says ―300,000 Ameri-

can women with breast can-cer

might have died‖ if our

health care were

―government run‖ like Eng-land’s.

FactCheck.org says ―We judge this ad’s main insinua-

tion to be a false appeal to

women’s fears.‖

The Independent Women’sForum’s staff includes Lynn

Cheney, wife of Dick Cheney,

on it’s staff. My thanks to Joy,

who commented on this post,for pointing that out.

Nothing like England’s system

is being considered currentlyby either house of Congressanyway, as FactCheck has of-ten pointed out. FactCheck

judges this ad’s main insinua-

tion to be a false appeal to

women’s fears.

Nothing new about using fear by the opposition to healthcareinsurance reform.Readmore.

elite who can financially afford it?Or, is it to be accessible to all,regardless of economic socialclass?Have we, as a nation, becomeso materialistic and commercial,so profit driven, that we are will-ing to shed our ethics and mor-als and confine accessto medical treatment to thosethat can afford it? If so, can wecontinue to claim our country is aChristian country?Those really are the fundamentalquestions with which we mustdeal.

The story of how today’s market

-driven medical system givesWall Street investors life anddeath control over our healthcare, turning medicine into aprofit machine instead of a socialservice to meet human need.Readmore.

Members of Congresshave good health insur-ance by any standard,

but it’s not free and not

reserved only for them

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and it’s not government

insurance. House andSenate members areallowed to pur-chase private healthinsurance offeredthrough the FederalWhat type of health in-surance do members of Congress receive? Is ita single-payer, govern-ment-run system?The answer is: Mem-bers of Congress arecovered by private in-surance under the samesystem that covers allfederal workers.Employees HealthBenefits Program,which covers more than8 million other federalemployees, retirees andtheir families.Dean Heller may have apoint. Suppose thatwhatever reform isadopted that eachmember of CongressCorporate America hasbought Congress andthat if people want toregain control of their government theywill have to acknowl-edge that situation andbuy it back.I think about Wendell

Potter’s admonition to

The Republican and

Democratic party’s have

become so entrappedby the floodof money from corpora-tions and Wall Street

that Congress doesn’t

represent people any-more, they representcorporations.

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Bill Moyer’s Journal on PBS

aired a very informative segmentabout modern day healthcareand the impact of for-profit insur-ance coverage.You can view the video of thebroadcast on this blog post com-plete with a transcript.The health care crossroads wecurrently encounter raises funda-mental questions: Is healthcare to be afforded only to the

us all about how for-profit health care in-surance

company’s

are fighting reform be-cause of the deleteri-ous effect it wouldhave on their profits,at the expense of peo-ple. It appears thatcorporations may well

retain it’s grip on

the Americangovernment.If so it will be atestament to theunwillingness of informed votersto retake con-trol. Readmore. would be required to becovered under the newsystem. What, then wouldbe arguments we wouldhear from our Senatorsand Congressmen/women?Would they take a differ-ent stance or not? Readmore.