The REAL death panels

After reading the NYT story on how these beasts are justifying their record profits made me think this. To kill that corrupt, greedy, UN American industy, all one has to do, and they are basically forcing us to do it, is to just let ourselves die. Don't use their over priced pencil pushing services. If we give them only our premiums and nothing else, maybe our children can avoid the legal death panels our country has allowed to exist and perpetrate homicicide on citizens that can't afford care.

Yeah, in the short term, as this article describes, they will raise the prices and rake in obscene profits waiting for the day Americans are once again able to spend money on healthcare. Just think about that statement....

How is that justified in the 21st Century? How can that be written in the NYT as a justifiable reason to gouge people.

Maybe if we all just let ourselves die, they can't keep that charade going for long.

And yes, I am saying this tongue in cheek. I don't think people should just let themselves die. But the reality is, is that it is happening hundreds of times over every single day in this country. Just look at the reasons they come up with to gouge and let people die. We might all be on that course anyhow. I just can't fathom that this is the way America truly is. That this is what we are. That this is what we have become. But I believe it. The article even goes on to lead one to believe that the "consumers" of healthcare by wanting non generic, or an MRI have finally come to realize the cost associated and don't want it any more and they were the problem,like that's a good thing... While people who need dental work and have skin cancer don't see the doctor. I am crawling out of my sking reading that article. It makes me feel really sad.

Read the article here:

Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care

The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set among Americans who are postponing or forgoing medical care

The UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest commercial insurers, told analysts that so far this year, insured hospital stays actually decreased in some instances. In reporting its earnings last week, Cigna, another insurer, talked about the “low level” of medical use.

Yet the companies continue to press for higher premiums, even though their reserve coffers are flush with profits and shareholders have been rewarded with new dividends. Many defend proposed double-digit increases in the rates they charge, citing a need for protection against any sudden uptick in demand once people have more money to spend on their health, as well as the rising price of care.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/business/14health.html