WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Feb-20-10 01:36 PM
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Well... At Least He Was Honest... Sort Of...
Blue Cross CEO: Health reform needed minus public option
February 19, 2010 5:52 PM
Brad Wilson, who became the head of this state’s largest insurer Feb. 1, stopped by the Times-News on Friday for a discussion about the insurance industry, healthcare reform and the future of healthcare in North Carolina. Blue Cross Blue Shield insures 3.7 million statewide and has 4,600 employees.
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NO PUBLIC OPTION
Wilson says the public option would introduce unfair competition to private insurers.
“If the government is your competitor, it’s an unfair competitor. They don’t have to pay taxes. They have no concept of overhead. They can always have a cheaper product … and they don’t have to balance the books at the end of the year,†Wilson said.
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Link: http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/blue-31821-reform-ceo....
At least he didn't say that it would be inefficient, bloated, government takeover, and filled with "death panels".
Those seem to be true statements. Not that the truth can chip away at the DUmp's obsession with gimme-gimme-gimme more.
gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Feb-20-10 01:40 PM
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2. "... the public option would introduce unfair competition to private insurers"
Are we to take pity on the very industry that has watched us die just to further their profits? Is THAT fair?
I can't tell you how angry his statement, and that sentiment, make me.
It's always about the almighty dollar, even at the cost of people dying. :grr:
There is NO WAY a private company should be allowed to make enough money to pay their bills, and a little profit on top!!
kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Feb-20-10 01:50 PM
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8. The public option for medical care is JUST AS EVIL as public universities.
Disclaimer: I attended an evil state university for all 8 years of my higher education.
Evidently, her "eight years of higher education" didn't teach her much...public universities DO need to balance their books, for one thing...unlike government entitlement programs.
Oh, and the "minor" point that insurance companies have government oversight, can be sued, and will never have the power that a government agency has for ignoring a client or screwing up their services.
