The Health Insurance Racket: UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley Earns $819,363 A DAY!

[Turborama]

Run time: 05:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKI9be55N00   Posted on YouTube: August 06, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 06, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 7029

 
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What does UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar.

What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Winsconsin who is physically incapable of eating and has had to be tube fed her entire life, have to gain from healthcare reform? The treatment she needs to live a normal life.

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Getting Rich by Denying Americans Care

UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley owns $744,232,068 in unexercised stock options. CIGNA’s Edward Hanway spends his holidays in a $13 million beach house in New Jersey. Meanwhile, regular Americans are routinely denied coverage for the care they need when they need it most.

Welcome to the American health insurance industry. Instead of helping policyholders attain the health security they need for their families, big insurance companies get rich by denying coverage to patients. Now they’re sending lobbyists to Washington, DC to twist the arms of lawmakers to oppose reform of the status quo. Why? Because the status quo pays.

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ETA: I'd love to see what Cenk, Rachel &/or Keith would do with this info...

[avaistheone1]

1. This is a good video to email to any of your friends who are on the fence

about this issue, or want to know more.

Great job.

[Dr.Phool]

2. I'm so glad they found a way to refuse paying for my colonoscopy.

I'd hate to deprive this prick of something.

[PHIMG]

3. America's Health Care Vampires - Private Health Insurers

TOP TEN REASONS WHY PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE MUST GO!

Bloody Hands.
Private Insurers make self-interested and arbitrary claim and coverage denials relegating many to premature death.

Restrict Choice.
Private Insurers often restrict medical consumers’ choice in medical providers, inhibiting the proper function of the free market in medical services and enabling bad providers to thrive.

Adds Complexity.
Over 1,200 Private Insurance bureaucracies complicate and impede the practice of medicine with differing and often conflicting billing and administrative policies.

Drains Resources.
Nearly 30% of the healthcare spending funneled through health insurance middlemen is wasted on profit taking, underwriting, executive compensation and other unnecessary expense and waste.

Squanders Expertise.
Our current health care model diverts providers' attention from "how to heal" to "how to get compensated" by the shameless insurers.

Manipulates the Media.
Private Insurers exert a level of editorial control over the media via advertising purchases.

Corrupts Our Politics. Private Insurers manipulate elected officials with campaign donations, plum corporate jobs, and an army of lobbyists.

Brainwashes the Populace.
Private Insurers use paid media to lie directly to the populace, leveraging fear tactics and other highly sophisticated propaganda campaigns in order to evade accountability for the consequences of their actions and protect the status quo.

Restricts Debate.
Private Insurers’ media and political operatives dishonestly malign genuine reform as “politically infeasible” in order to limit the debate to industry-blessed half measures.

It's time to drive the wooden stake through the heart of the Private Insurance Vampires! The wooden stake is HR-676.

Reform proposals that do not remove private insurers from our healthcare system are morally unacceptable, fiscally irresponsible, and unsustainable even in the near term. These “mandate and subsidize” proposals are not well meaning attempts at realism by so-called centrists. They are a sinister attempt to marginalize the opportunity our country has at this defining moment to sideline the private insurers and move to a healthcare system that works – publicly funded and privately provided Medicare for all, as implemented in HR 676 – The United States National Health Care Act.

HR676 NOW!!!

[babylonsister]

4. Rec'd, and rec'd passing this on! nt

[Why Syzygy]

5. k/r

[ejbr]

6. k & r n/t

[ScottLand]

7. I'm so sad that this happens in America.

God damn you, Mr. Hemsley.