They Lie? Who Knew?
David Hilzenrath of the Washington Post has a small piece of reality: Insurers Spin Data to Fight Public Plan.
As the article points out, a major segment of the people who like their current health insurance are people who have never needed to use it. It isn’t hard to be satisfied with something you never use, like those miniature spare tires. The test of good insurance is how they handle claims, not how they handle your payments.
This is the same thing that occurred along the Gulf Coast with property insurance. Most people liked their insurance companies until 2004 and 2005 when they needed to file claims on policies that they had been paying premiums on for decades, and then they discovered that the companies didn’t intend to pay.
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Another example is that Canadian woman named Shona Holmes who’s appearing on all the television shows claiming that she had a brain cancer and would have died before seeing a specialist in Canada. The only problem: According to the Mayo Clinic (before they had to remove the story from their web site in dismay), it was actually a benign cyst — a non-fatal congenital condition that is readily apparent on a MRI even for a primary care physician who can look at it and say “Oh, that’s a Rathke’s Cleft cyst”, is not an urgent surgery by any stretch, and a four month wait to get an operation for it might be unpleasant if you’re starting to have symptoms because it’s starting to press on your optic nerve but is hardly a “I’ll die if I don’t get the surgery *now*” kind of thing.
In short, just another right-wing liar repeating a right wing lie. Sigh!
– Badtux the Lying Liars
I’ve come to the logical and rational conclusion that to be included in the rightwing *conservative* club, one must first fail a lie-detector test comprehensively. I suspect many of these people have to think a minute before telling anyone asking their real names. 🙂
I the only thing I am unsure about, is whether to label them pathological liar’s or compulsive liars. Everyone who is known to be a Republican or affiliated with the rightwing in any way should be forced to undergo compulsive psychotherapy for a minimum of a year. And if they fail, lock them up for everyone’s sake. 🙂
The Canadians are getting pretty torqued off about the lies being spread, and there are officials, especially Jack Layton from the New Democratic Party who drop down to provide facts and attitude adjustments regarding the lies about Canadian health care.
The local snowbirds go back to Canada if they have health problems because they have noticed that the local medical community tends to “over treat” problems. They are also unhappy that we don’t have walk-in clinics, but make people go to the emergency room.
Kryten, they are pathological. The lying is only a small part of their problems.