Here’s the audio from an audience question during the American Health Insurance Plans’ launch of the Campaign for an American Solution today in Columbus. AHIP, the trade group representing the health insurance industry, billed the event as a roundtable discussion with uninsured residents; its campaign is promoting health care reform members believe will lead to greater “coverage, affordability, quality, value, choice and portability.” The questions comes from one of the critics who don’t understand how an insurance industry built on profit can objectively and effectively push for lower rates and better quality coverage for all citizens, including those who can’t afford it.
Listen close (audience member is first with question; AHIP CEO Karen Ignagni later provides the answer):
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American Health Insurance Plans will not pay for Social Security revenue Elected Officials replaced with worthless IOUs. And spent the money on defiant of realities demands selfish interests. Of low-income, volunteers without wages, and nonunion parasites willing to work for fewer wages than they can afford life for votes.
Defying demands of Natural Law (what Mother Nature, God, or Whatever Power decreed to be the reality of the real world), God, democracy, capitalism, the US Constitution, and free, fair, and affordable commerce.
Demanding every corporation, farmer, business, outsourcer sweatshop, and nonprofit, tax-exempt, organization and Church markets the cost in the wholesale and retail price of his or her product and service. Of every citizen paying health insurance premium or pay health care provider with money derived from wages or independent business profit.
Demands Fathers disqualified for affirmative action with white skin, Union workers, consumers, taxpayers, and Americas grandchildren fund low-income, volunteers without wages, and nonunion parasites willing to work for fewer wages than they can afford life. Paying for the more stock dividends (money) Hillarys (money marketers) market quarterly in the wholesale and retail price of prescription drugs and health care with money derived from wages and independent business profit.
Demanding Fathers disqualified for affirmative action with white skin, Union workers, consumers, taxpayers, and Americas grandchildren fund low-income workers, volunteers without wages, and nonunion parasites willing to work for fewer wages than they can afford life. Paying for health care with Medicaid.
Supports the demise of Natural Law, God, democracy, capitalism, the US Constitution, and free, fair, and affordable commerce. Makes health care UNAFFORDABLE. Makes funding schools IMPOSSIBLE; Makes free, fair, and affordable commerce IMPOSSIBLE. Makes balancing every budget IMPOSSIBLE. Makes union workers, consumers, taxpayers, and America’s grandchildren’s children LIFE UNAFFORDABLE. And created the $40 trillion social security and the $9.6 trillion national debt. America’s grandchildren’s children are responsible to pay interest with until they are 18 years old.
Then pay the debt with the $6.85 per hour labor wage. Twenty five percent of We the stupid, defiant of demands of natural law (what Mother Nature, God, or Whatever Power decreed to be the reality of the real world) God, democracy, capitalism, the US Constitution, and free, fair, and affordable commerce. Deceived in Sunday schools, public schools, private schools, and home schools, colleges, and universities government of the people, by the people, for the people, elected legislators and representatives to enact.
There is no reason to believe America’s grandchildren’s children that go to bed hungry can afford life and pay this debt with money derived from wages or independent business profit in a hundred million years. http://www.loreneberly.com
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American Health Insurance Plans will not pay for Social Security revenue Elected Officials replaced with worthless IOUs. And spent the money on defiant of realities demands selfish interests. Of low-income, volunteers without wages, and nonunion parasites willing to work for fewer wages than they can afford life for votes.
Defying demands of Natural Law (what Mother Nature, God, or Whatever Power decreed to be the reality of the real world), God, democracy, capitalism, the US Constitution, and free, fair, and affordable commerce.
Demanding every corporation, farmer, business, outsourcer sweatshop, and nonprofit, tax-exempt, organization and Church markets the cost in the wholesale and retail price of his or her product and service. Of every citizen paying health insurance premium or pay health care provider with money derived from wages or independent business profit.
Demands Fathers disqualified for affirmative action with white skin, Union workers, consumers, taxpayers, and Americas grandchildren fund low-income, volunteers without wages, and nonunion parasites willing to work for fewer wages than they can afford life. Paying for the more stock dividends (money) Hillarys (money marketers) market quarterly in the wholesale and retail price of prescription drugs and health care with money derived from wages and independent business profit.
Demanding Fathers disqualified for affirmative action with white skin, Union workers, consumers, taxpayers, and Americas grandchildren fund low-income workers, volunteers without wages, and nonunion parasites willing to work for fewer wages than they can afford life. Paying for health care with Medicaid.
Supports the demise of Natural Law, God, democracy, capitalism, the US Constitution, and free, fair, and affordable commerce. Makes health care UNAFFORDABLE. Makes funding schools IMPOSSIBLE; Makes free, fair, and affordable commerce IMPOSSIBLE. Makes balancing every budget IMPOSSIBLE. Makes union workers, consumers, taxpayers, and America’s grandchildren’s children LIFE UNAFFORDABLE. And created the $40 trillion social security and the $9.6 trillion national debt. America’s grandchildren’s children are responsible to pay interest with until they are 18 years old.
Then pay the debt with the $6.85 per hour labor wage. Twenty five percent of We the stupid, defiant of demands of natural law (what Mother Nature, God, or Whatever Power decreed to be the reality of the real world) God, democracy, capitalism, the US Constitution, and free, fair, and affordable commerce. Deceived in Sunday schools, public schools, private schools, and home schools, colleges, and universities government of the people, by the people, for the people, elected legislators and representatives to enact.
There is no reason to believe America’s grandchildren’s children that go to bed hungry can afford life and pay this debt with money derived from wages or independent business profit in a hundred million years.
http://www.loreneberly.com