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To: Dale Baker who wrote (118681)	8/18/2009 5:07:14 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 543065

".For the most part, private insurance companies are the ones standing between the client and their healthcare provider, they are the ones refusing to pay for treatment, they are the ones cutting people out as soon as they get sick." Exactly. That is certainly my experience, and the experience of all my friends. Thanks for posting that.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (118681)	8/18/2009 7:54:48 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543065

A US poster on Facebook: "I work daily with medicare and va clients- it is a lot easier than working with the private insurance companies.For the most part, private insurance companies are the ones standing between the client and their healthcare provider, they are the ones refusing to pay for treatment, they are the ones cutting people out as soon as they get sick." That's my sister-in-law, a registered nurse her entire adult life.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (118681)	8/18/2009 9:36:57 PM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543065

You know the more I read about the insurance company horrors, the more I think Obama really screwed up with how this was presented. How is it now the insurance companies are looking to be the winners along with big pharma? Trying to sell people the public plan, increasing coverage dramatically while reducing costs for Medicare $500 Billion does not add up. If the push was to make minimum coverage requirements uniform across the whole nation, along with protections for pre existing coverage, all the other things wrong with present private insurance, etc, perhaps the public would have responded better. If the insurance companies were told this is the playing field and here are the rules they would figure out how to do it better than the government could. In this case the health insurers would need to adapt and the insured would be the winners.