Health Care Watch VIDEO: $ick for profit

By GottaLaff

Find the part in this video where Big Insurance cares about the health and welfare of its policyholders. Oh, you can't? Me neither:



Patient: "If I do not have this, I will die."

Big Insurance: ::crickets::

UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley owns $744,232,068 in unexercised stock options. CIGNA’s Edward Hanway spends his holidays in a $13 million beach house in New Jersey. Meanwhile, regular Americans are routinely denied coverage for the care they need when they need it most.

Welcome to the American health insurance industry. Instead of helping policyholders attain the health security they need for their families, big insurance companies get rich by denying coverage to patients. Now they’re sending lobbyists to Washington, DC to twist the arms of lawmakers to oppose reform of the status quo. Why? Because the status quo pays.

H/t: David Shuster