Arthur D. Hlavaty

The horror story about the woman suing her little nephew for hugging her is, like so much else, about piggish insurance companies.

Maybe this is why the insurance biz doesn't want to cover people with preexisting conditions.

Thanx to andrewducker

Incapable of distinguishing carrot from stick, Blue Cross sends its victims warnings against the public option along with its latest rate increase.

Thanx to Oliver Willis

Some Republicans were saying that the Obama administration was plotting Death Panels. The rest of them didn't all agree, but they didn't seem terribly bothered. Now, however, Rep. Alan Grayson has said that the insurance company approach is "Don't get sick...and if you do get sick, die quickly," and the Republicans are shocked. The main difference I see between the two statements is that Grayson's is true. He points out that lack of adequate insurance can be blamed for almost 45,000 deaths a year. As Martha Koester said on Facebook, "If some foreign country killed that many Americans, it would be a radioactive cinder by now. Why do we allow insurance companies to do it?"

Thanx to womzilla for the link.