Frank Chow: Asian- American Political Pundit

Because I am in that kind of mood, the health care companies continue to give us no reason whatsoever to let the status quo remain : The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, which is a lobbying group representing 39 independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, is also engaged in this two-faced campaign. Like most of industry, the BCBS Association says it fully supports the concept of health reform, but continually demands drastic changes to the bills in Congress. Some have begun to question the BCBS Association’s claim of support given its new study attacking reform legislation in the Senate. The criticism of BCBS is bolstered by a new revelation that BCBS Association lobbyists are helping to orchestrate a right-wing movement to invalidate all of health reform. Yesterday, the BCBS Association released yet another industry-sponsored study to distort health reform and falsely claim that premiums will skyrocket because of the legislation. However, the nonpartisan CBO reported earlier this...

Sometimes movies gives us a little glimpse about the small truths in our current debates. Fast forward to about 6:40 in this video. I think Mr. Incredible did what most of us have been wanting to do for sometime. RAGE! Atrios : What Are They For Again? John Cole: Hell, I can’t, for the life of me, figure out what value the insurance companies add at all. Seems like all they do is skim money off the top, add layers of paperwork, and then screw people when they get a serious illness. This is correct. More than that, most of "health insurance" isn't really insurance at all, except for a bit of catastrophic insurance which they try to avoid paying out. There really is no reason for them to exist. I am Frank Chow and I approved this message

It begins: Frank gets out of his cubicle and starts ripping phone books with his bare hands and yells HEALTH CARE!!! Two words, what is so difficult to understand HEALTH and CARE So why is it that the debate suddenly turns to deficits or price tags and free markets , when not a one of these fuggin guys mentioned any of these when we decided TO GO TO WAR! Oh that’s right blowing up people, sending OTHER citizens children is of no concern, starting war of FAKE precedence did not have anything to do with wasteful spending or deficits. No sir ree, freedom costs $1.05! Frank takes a phonebook and eats it, that’s right eats it. He stomachs an entire phone book of rage. Oh wait sickness, spinning room. Vomit. That’s what HEALTH CARE and its ensuing debate does to good ole US of A Frank. Sickness. Now let me go call my doctor, to be referred to a doctor about said sickness, only to be charged for every run around cruddy test, then send me back to before said doctor to doctor up another refer...