"Difficult decision" = "Thanks for paying your premiums all these years. Now enjoy the cancer treatment we're not going to cover. PEACE!"

Yeah, let's make sure we write legislation that keeps those* people happy. Obviously, they're incredible patriots.

*Insurance companies in case there's confusion.

Adding... Before anyone starts slapping me in the face with literature and crazy, my post is not a rallying cry for "Single Payer NOW or FUCK Obama." I'm cool with a robust public option being a stepping stone towards marginalizing the insurance industry.

I wonder how many dollars it takes to make yourself believe your are preventing fraud and not just murdering people.

In the article she claims that fraud accounts for $100 billion annually. Their definition of fraud must be quite lax--the girl needing the liver transplant for example was clearly a criminal mastermind and she would have gotten away with it too had she not, you know, died.

I choose to define all people with an IQ less than 100 as autistic. According to my research, autism shot up dramatically in September of 2009.

They deliberately make the insurance forms so complicated you can't possibly fill them out without making a mistake. Over decades, who can remember every minor outpatient procedure and cite exact dates? For most of us, it's just "in my mid-30s I had a slight problem with..." or even "I had my gall bladder out in my late 40s." It's like trying to remember where you were on the night of June 19th or what you had for breakfast last Tuesday! But somehow, they WILL track it down and use it against you, calling it "lying" if you get the date off by a month.

Bottom line: they are not for us, they are against us - to the point where they are willing to kill us to maintain their profits.