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Record Profits for Health Insurers in ‘09

While most businesses clawed and scraped to survive the great national catastrophe known as G.W. Bush, the nation’s top health insurers were enjoying record profits.  In fact, 2009 turns out to be the best year ever for the health care giants. One of the companies’,  CIGNA,  saw profits jumping 346 percent.  Not a bad [...]

Sick for Profit

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National Hero: Your Health Insurance Salesman?

The tea partiers have raised the status of the lowly insurance salesman to historic new heights.  Hell, I almost want to go back into that business myself.  I wonder if a Health History Authorization form can get you chicks now-a-days.  Yeah, flash one of those around and they come a running.  And man, show [...]

More Republican Lies about Healthcare

In true Republican form, we have seen party members take to their self-assigned pulpits and proclaim that “119 million Americans will be off healthcare” if the Democratic healthcare plan is enacted.  We are bombarded with this same untruth countless times on popular media venues.  I supposed they are following the old mantra that says [...]