Robert Greenwald on the Ed Show for Sick For Profit: Aug. 10, 2009
by Rick Glover
Filed under Health Videos
Robert Greenwald appears on the Ed Show to talk about Sick For Profit, a Brave New Films campaign to expose the greed of big health insurance companies. Aug. 10 2009.
Another Ediot Show…..everybody’s not drinking the KoolAid because you drank most of it, Ed.
MSNBC = Marxist Socialist Nationalist Broadcasting Company
wow 100k a hour
Single payer in Portland Oregon? Wow ED, what a story! Next thing you know, youll be telling us that gay right conventions are in San Fransisco!
GTFO of here you liberal communist socialist schill.
* Independent Health
* Intermountain Health Care
* Kaiser Permanente
* LifeWise Health Plan of Oregon
* Medical Mutual of Ohio
* Premera
* Principal Financial Group
* Regence Group
* Scott & White
* Shelter Insurance Companies
* Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
* UnitedHealth Group
* Unitrin
* Wellpoint
Yes, I’m a shill and I was hired by the insurance companies to post shit on youtube. Add that to your conspiracy list.
The insurance companies operate on 3-6% net revenue (profit) which is on par with most major industries. You wouldn’t want EVERY procedure to be given the green light because then operating costs (and therefore your premium) would rise accordingly. In a gov’t system the pay would just come from taxes.
Clearly a shill. You have a choice between providers. However the insurers use price gouging. Thus their is no competition or real choice. That is not democracy or capitalism. It is closer to fascism. It is a monopoly by the insurers. The douche bags who say they don’t want the govern. between them, and their DR. need to ask themselves “Do I want an Insurance company (aimed at profit) between me and my doctor?”. That is what happens, an insurance agent not a DR. decides what your entitled to.
@cannuckistan
i think helth care needs not to be like socalist nazi eu , ive seen how you treat the poor so your full of shit !
@seesaw148
well your govermet is makeing a profit isnt
it !
such propoganda bull shit ! lol
mr ed is drunk !
Not a free market?
Umm. The last time I checked, nobody was FORCED to use United as their insurer. If you don’t like the way they run things, go elsewhere.
People complain all the time about CEO compensation, but don’t really care when their favorite sports person signs a $200 million contract.
How can MSNBC produce so many stupid, brain dead people on one network with no talent and no charisma to boot.
Hi i’m Australian, Health care in Australia is governent regulted, you only pay 1.5% of the your salary < $20/week it covers you for free hospital care or visiting a doctor. Reform must come, its crazy that you can profit from not treating a sick person unheard of in Australia! US Capitilsm gone crazy! National health care can be a reality in USA but It requires a national protest, & revolution against those in power- the health insurance co’s
You americans have lived for so long in this nutty system that you think it’s the only way it has to be….but that’s just not so. Canada funds its healthcare at around $3500 per person, the US spends $7000 per person. A single payer system funded to your levels in the US would be very very good. So the money’s in your system, it’s just not going to the sick, as Bill Clinton often says.
ha i think ed is drunk again ! thank god glen beck has better ratings , so America is not left wing .
Yes, I’m also against abortions, but I’m not going to whine about it so much if other people use tax money of mine for it. There are so many tax dollars being levied that I’d probably be paying 5 cents a month or so for abortions. I’m fine with that.
You have to be empathetic. You need to care a bit for other people and the problems they have before saying, “it’s your fault for not being able to pay to live”. Right now, right-wingers anti anti-reform lobbyists are just being pathetic”
You can’t privatize basic rights like health care because people end up gaining when they don’t provide the services that they are supposed to provide. If people are making money by NOT providing you the services that you pay for, the system is BROKEN! Its so obvious, the people who see otherwise are brainwashed! I am Canadian, so I don’t have this problem, still as I have a conscience, I feel too bad for all of those sorry souls who are denied these basic rights. SMARTEN UP DOWN THERE
the health insurance companies are the pimps and we the people are the bitches
Prior to Hemsley, William McGuire was CEO. Google him. Back dating stock options, a golden parachute of over a billion-time to hold our elected officials responsible for not supporting change.
This issue is absolutely true. For profit health insurance corporations, who have fiduciary duty to turn massive profit to their shareholders, have absolutely no place in healthcare. The first step in whatever reform is proposed by congress – must be to strike this from our health system. Please watch my videos, Healthcare Reform 101 – BLOODMONEY.
why does Greenwald always have those glasses on his slick head? Lend yourself some credibility. Take them off!
ifnyou watch, the hit words is about how much these guys make in an attempt to creat jealousy in those that dont even pay for their health care. the zero liability voter has no skin in the game and will protest anything. they care nothen who pays because they dont. and when jealousy lags, use raceism. always a fav.
I see that when you have a disagreement with your polocies , you call people names. its not that and it is sad a true debate is never done. I have some debates ed did and as with most on the wrong side, when they lose or are losing the debate, you all resort to name calling and shouting. classic. also if this is a choise, why so many fines to not use it?
This debate is very sad in and of itself. The fact people are denying others healthcare for profit is pretty shocking. Whats even more shocking is the fact this is even being looked at as a debate. Goes to show crazy people have way to much influence on our scociety. Not to mention the fact the rich can so easily turn the poor on themselves in defense of the rich peoples agenda its just amazing.
Greed is “An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth”. Given that people’s contractual agreements with their insurance companies are being broken by those companies, I’d say those profits are not deserved. Given that those companies already were posting good returns, I’d say those profits were not needed. So yes, those companies and their officers are GREEDY.