Ryan vs. Obama's Economic Plan's
Ryan vs. Obama's Economic Plan's
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What a disingenuous bit of video agitprop designed for low information individuals. I could write a 5,000 word piece with charts and graphs completely exposing all the deliberate lies and deception contained in this fact-free video clip — but I won’t — I’ll keep it less than 1,000 words. This health care issue, Medicare/ Medicaid; Paul Ryan’s buffoonery {Read: 1 & 2 } versus Obama’s flawed sincere attempt , is not very complex, but the corporate television media (ABC- CBS- NBC/MSNBC -FAKE- CNN -) all refuse to break-it-down in simple form for the majority of their viewers who only watch television as their only source of “news?” and information.
Why? It’s simple, $$$$$$$$$ money. Health care companies and pharmaceutical companies reliably spend billions of dollars on television commercials on these networks. That’s why you get bombarded with Viagra, Cialis & Levitra limp-dick fix drug commercials. You get these ‘image building’ commercials from Aetna, United HealthCare, Cigna and all the other “Health Care Mafia” companies.
Now in case you haven’t figured it out— what is the business model of the “Health Care Mafia”? It’s very simple; you don’t need a MBA to figure it out. The “Health Care Mafia” is in the business of denying as much health care as possible, they are the ultimate ‘cockblockers’ — they exist to deny as vigorously as possible your ability to receive medical care that will keep you alive.
How does it work? You pay monthly premiums to the “Health Care Mafia” usually with a percentage paid by your employer if you have a job where such ‘insurance’ is offered. Let’s make it simple; let’s assume medium size corporation XYZ has 1,000 employees who enroll in the “Health Care Mafia” insurance plan. The typical plan premium is $1,000 a month, multiply that by 1,000 employees and that’s $1,000,000 ( One Million Dollars) a month going to the “Health Care Mafia” . The “Health Care Mafia” gets that $1,000,000 and immediately puts 25% to 47% of that money into their vault. It’s like a mobster “paying tribute” to his Godfather. This “tribute” money pays for the “Health Care Mafia” companies private jets, stretch limos, 4**** Star private dining rooms, and the multimillion dollar executive compensation. One health care mafia kingpin made so much money collecting “tribute” that he had to give back $620,000,000. (620 Million Dollars) The executives and senior officials at these “Health Care Mafia” companies are stacking serious paper — and they are not the doctors; they are just the middleman between you and your doctor. You can read all about how it works from an insider.
Oh what about health care you ask. Let’s say, god forbid, your doctor tells you that you have fulminant myocarditis a severe condition but one that can be treated successfully over time 93% of the time. The doctor ask you if you have ‘insurance’. You say yes and hand him your insurance card. He calls the “Health Care Mafia”representative and tells them about your condition. That representative is financially incentivized (earns bonus money) to basically tell your doctor to send you home with a bottle of Tylenol . Your doctor, if he’s ethical & empathetic will ‘push-back’ and fight to get a treatment regimen approved for you. The “Health Care Mafia” representative will also fight to give you as little coverage and the cheapest procedures available. It’s very simple, the majority of the major “Health Care Mafia” companies are for-profit entities whose stocks trade publically on the New York Stock Exchange. The less coverage they provide you, the more money the make, the higher the stock price goes up, the more value the executives stock options are worth. It’s not about your health and medical care, it’s about the money. They are the shot-caller between you and your doctor, and your life.
Remember the 25% to 47% of your premium money that “Health Care Mafia” puts in their vault right off the top as soon as they get it? President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act which the corporate media calls ObamaCare limits the skim to 15%. The RepubliKlans are trying to repeal this part of the bill along with many other provisions since they can’t repeal the whole thing. The United States despite the fact that 59 million people have no health care coverage— (that’s right no Medicare/ Medicaid- just go to the emergency room) — spends more as a percentage of GDP than any other major country on the planet earth. (look below)
The United States which is the world's wealthiest, spends by far the most on health care. The United States spends around $8,700 per capita each year on health care, more than double the OECD average and well more than second place Switzerland.
Despite the high spending, Americans are not anywhere near the world's healthiest. More than 35% of Americans are obese, one of the highest rate in the world, and exceptionally high compared with other countries spending the most on health. The United States is also the only top 10 country for health spending where the life expectancy does not exceed 80 years. Also, infant mortality has increased in the United States. While in 2000, the incidence of infant mortality in the United States was lower than the OECD average, today it is higher.
Meanwhile the “Health Care Mafia” during the cheney-bush regime, expending rapacious greed, raised their health care premiums 200% to 500% more than the rate of inflation. (look below)
The “Health Care Mafia” spent $1,500,000 per day 24/7 to <s>Lobby</s> Bribe the 535 members of the congress and the senate to make sure president Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act DID NOT contain a ‘public option’ or a Medicare option @ age 55, or anything that would break the “Health Care Mafia” oligopoly. Paul Ryan received more than $700,000 in bribes from the “Health Care Mafia” oligopoly. Ryan wants to end Medicare which has a 3% overhead, and collects premiums from everyone who gets a paycheck, during all those years before you reach age 65 and instead turn everything over to the rapacious “Health Care Mafia” and while were at this cut the top tax bracket down to 25% punching an additional $14,000,000,000,000 (14 Trillion Dollars) hole in the US budget deficit. Let me stop here. This is a porn board.
Paul Ryan is a con man. No this is not an ad hominem attack, it is an empirically based judgement based upon a "reality based" judgement of his written work. Any grade C- student in accounting can look at his self-proclaimed "path to prosperity budget" and quickly see that it is complete and total bullshit; it is beyond phantasmagorical. Despite the complete lie that the 'Ryan Budget' represents, the RepubliKlan members of the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously vote for the 'Ryan Budget' every year—and Ryan is presented on the television corporate media of mass distraction & deception as a "policy wonk".?
Watch the video above and read the article below and then ask yourself why Paul Ryan is not properly defined & presented in the media as a complete buffoon.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/call-that-a-budget
Watch the video above and read the article below and then ask yourself why Paul Ryan is not properly defined & presented in the media as a complete buffoon.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/call-that-a-budget
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In this video from 2009 you will hear an interview with a top echelon 'Health Care Mafia' insider Wendell Potter who spent 15 years with the 'Health Care Mafia' in the executive suite at CIGNA. It is now 2011 but this video remains the best I've seen in methodically exposing how the "Health Care Mafia" functions. They deliberately & willfully rip-off and deny health care coverage to as many Americans as they can. The motive? Profit at any cost! Even at the cost of dead Americans. Everything he said in this 2009 video turned out to be true
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Excellent post!
In this video from 2009 you will hear an interview with a top echelon 'Health Care Mafia' insider Wendell Potter who spent 15 years with the 'Health Care Mafia' in the executive suite at CIGNA. It is now 2011 but this video remains the best I've seen in methodically exposing how the "Health Care Mafia" functions. They deliberately & willfully rip-off and deny health care coverage to as many Americans as they can. The motive? Profit at any cost! Even at the cost of dead Americans. Everything he said in this 2009 video turned out to be true
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