So it's gonna be a "nonprofit" like "Blue Cross/Blue Shield"?

[tj2001]

Run by "experienced health insurance executives" like "Blue Cross/Blue Shield"?

Lovely.

[Motown_Johnny]

1. Wait for the Senate Finance Committee Bill, the rest of this is Political Theater

[RC]

2. Yeah, I was thinking that also.

These are the cream of the crop criminals stealing us blind now.
Look at the bright side BS/BS (Bull shit/Blue Shield) isn't as bad as United Health Care is. Something to look forward to.

[imdjh]

3. BCBS doubled my premium after I had a hospital stay on an individual plan

I was self employed and BCBS paid for the hospital stay and then doubled my premium. I had to take a part time (30 hours) job with a major corp to get health insurance. Now, that corp that I worked for doesn't insure their retail employees, just the execs.

[enlightenment]

5. 20 years ago, BCBS

approved two procedures to correct a birth defect (bone malformation) - the first corrected the bone malformation and the second would have improved the external appearance - a reconstructive surgery. The doctors planned on completing both procedures during the same surgery, but decided that, after almost 8 hours on the table and suffering a collapsed lung, that they needed to wait to undertake the second.

Several months later, when I had healed sufficiently to finish the job, BCBS informed me that they would no longer cover the second procedure - because the defect (the bone issue) no longer existed, the reconstructive portion was deemed 'cosmetic'.

I ended up paying for it (and paying and paying . . .) myself.

Co-ops are not 'change I can believe in' - they are an absolute sell-out. I sincerely hope that the rosy-colored glasses crew here on DU are right and it will indeed be "all that is for the best, in the best of all possible worlds". Would that I could embrace such a Leibnizian view of life.

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[kath]

6. How many threads did you post this exact same message on?

Oh, wait, I just counted -- NINE!

Jeebus H. Christ.

[WeDidIt]

7. Why are you spamming all threads

Fuck your support of welfare for insurance comapnies.

No public option, NO PEACE!

[Epiphany4z]

8. i think giving up on the public option is giving them

that inch. I can already see the ads, the talk of dems so weak they cant get a public option.

I still support Obama but this doesn't look good ..I sure hope he is just working another game of rope a dope with the republicans.