Midterm Elections Will Cost Nearly $4 Billion, NOT Counting New Corporate Donations

By GottaLaff

Tip of the iceberg:

A new report from the Center for Responsive Politics estimates that this year's midterm elections will cost at least $3.7 billion -- about 30% more than four years ago.

Major caveat: The estimate does not include how much money could come directly from corporations, unions, trade associations or other interest groups stemming from the recent Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited contributions.

But we can't afford health care reform.

One more time: It's Freedom of Speech, not Freedom to Spend.

Domestic violence is a "pre-existing condition"?

By GottaLaff

Nah, we don't need health care reform, and Big Insurance is America's #1 First Choice for Quality Care! The status quo is working! Obama's a Marxist who wants to take over the Whole Wide World!

The only way anyone can justify this is if they, themselves, are abusers:

Insurance companies have used the excuse of "pre-existing conditions" to deny coverage to countless Americans. [...]

But, in DC and nine other states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, insurance companies have gone too far, claiming that "domestic violence victim" is also a pre-existing condition.

Words cannot describe the sheer inhumanity of this claim. It serves as yet further proof that our insurance system is broken, destroyed by the profit-mongering of the very companies whose sole purpose should be to provide Americans with access to care when they need it most. In 1994, an informal survey conducted by the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that 8 of the 16 largest insurers in the country used domestic violence as a factor when deciding whether to extend coverage and how much to charge if coverage was extended.

My outrage is unprintable.

So what do we do? This:

It is clear that insurance companies refuse to police themselves. It's up to us to call on Congress to take action now to pass health care reform and end discrimination against patients with pre-existing conditions.

Assisting abusers is beyond sick and wrong and should be illegal. The only pre-existing condition here is that of crimes being excused, camouflaged, and supported by Big Insurance.

H/t: lttlewing