if the health insurance companies are forced to cover claims that they previously denied will they be?
July 17, 2010 - 1:26 am
instrumental in crafting farm and food policies? will unhealthy food be more expensive and healthy food more available if insurance providers aren’t allowed to drop coverage when their customer gets diabetes from eating doughnuts and mcdonalds?
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i am one of the most liberal ones here. i do, however this would all be easier for americans (dem and repub) to accept if the "market" were appearing to fix itself. i would know however, that the govt. made them cover everyone.
Hopefully.
You are right, maybe our entire economy should be focused on trickle -up economics.
July 17th, 2010 at 6:53 am
Hopefully.
You are right, maybe our entire economy should be focused on trickle -up economics.
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July 17th, 2010 at 7:21 am
They just might be a little more aware. Maybe we need that. We are an unhealthy nation, for sure.
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July 17th, 2010 at 7:32 am
So you are saying that we shouldn’t make them mad or they will send their lobbyists top punish us.
Man…you Republicans really ARE a bunch of puzzies.
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July 17th, 2010 at 7:47 am
They do cover diabetes! I work in the industry. The ONLY ones that give us a hard time (approving claims) is Medicare/Medicaid. The private insurance companies can be negotiated with by Prior Authorization or change in drug. When Medicare/Medicaid deny a claim, that’s it end of game, patient pays out of pocket and with the cuts Obama proposes in the government option this will only get worse for the old and poor.
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July 17th, 2010 at 8:02 am
I have had diabetes since I was 29 and I have never been overweight in my life. I have a family history, but most people do not have a family history and could avoid this horrible disease with a little common sense.
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July 17th, 2010 at 8:47 am
No, more likely they will be encouraging us to die sooner.
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July 17th, 2010 at 9:00 am
Sin taxes will fix that. Foods that lead to those diseases will have value-added taxes to recoup some of the health costs associated with them and discourage consumption. This will be an incentive for the producers of the products to produce healthier products to reduce the tax.
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July 17th, 2010 at 9:12 am
But the pharma/med/ins industry, and it’s an industry, depends on sickness and disease, not health care. In Europe, they smoke like chimneys and half of them drink their way thru the day. But they are not poisoning themselves every day with strange drugs. Every stupid thing that happens, from hangnail to the heartbreak of psoriasis, has a pill that causes stroke or suicide, heart attack as advertised.
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