Quote from Julie Pace, Associated Press Writer, On Monday March 8, 2010, 11:45 am
GLENSIDE, Pa. (AP) — President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power as he sought to build support Monday for swift passage of legislation stalled in Congress.
“How much higher do premiums have to rise before we do something about it?” said Obama, making the first in an expected string of out-of-town trips to pitch his plan to remake the health care system.
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My translation of Obama’s statement:
These statements by Obama show his utter Marxist mentality. The insurance companies are PRIVATE companies who are in business to MAKE PROFITS. Just like any business, if insurance companies don’t make profits, they go BANKRUPT. So if Obama required the insurance companies to make little or no profits, they would soon be out of business. Every American who wants health insurance would then face the Obama-created alternative of NO health-care insurance companies to choose from (they could all go bankrupt if their profits were strangled), or government-controlled health insurance (socialized medicine).
It looks like marxist Obama would love to see the health insurance companies go bankrupt so he could then impose a fascist health-care system called Socialized Medicine on the American people, like they have in England and Canada. By the way, in the socialized-medicine paradises in England and Canada, they have long waiting lists to get treatment for life-threatening diseases, call ‘death lists.’ That’s right, many people DIE in England and Canada waiting six months or more for a heart operation or cancer treatment because the socialized-medicine system in these countries are overburdened, understaffed, lack the money for expensive surgery, or because of general government-bureaucratic incomeptence.
But it looks like marxist Obama would love to force every American into our very own socialized-medicine paradise by strangling the private insurance companies. Obama is ‘shocked’ that private insurance companies demand the right to make profits from their private business, that they put ‘profits over people’. Only a blithering socialist whose main work experience was being a ‘community organizer’ and law professor, could condemn a for-profit private company for daring to want to make profits.
Perhaps marxist Obama might consider the shocking idea of allowing free competition between insurance companies throughout the United States, so insurance companies would be forced to lower their rates due to fierce competition. Perhaps he might consider removing the hundreds of thousands of Federal regulations now strangling the health-care industry and the health-insurance industry, regulations that are the main cause of high insurance rates. Perhaps marxist Obama might consider that GOVERNMENT regulations and strangulation of the heath-care industry is the problem causing high insurance rates, NOT the insurance companies.
No, I don’t think marxist Obama would consider such things. He has an agenda. That agenda is to push us into a socialist hell-hole that destroys our liberty and right of free choice.
by Joel Turtel
