A UCLA study finds a jump in 2009 to 8.2 million adults and children from 6.4 million in 2007 stemming largely from job cuts and the loss of employer-sponsored coverage amid the recession. 1 in 4 people do not have health insurance in the richest and most populous state in the country? This is simply astonishing news and yet there are still people who doubt the need for universal health care? It pains me that people really exist who are so mean and so cheap they’d deny their fellow man a life free from worries that they’ll go bankrupt or become homeless as they go through chemo. It’s sick. It could be them next time! Do these idiots not realize this?

PUBLIC OPTION NOW!

From the front page of today’s Los Angeles TImes:

People who were uninsured for part or all of 2009 accounted for 24.3% of California’s population under age 65—a dramatic increase from 2007 driven largely by Californians who lost employer-sponsored health insurance, particularly over the last year.

Among those over age 18, nearly 1 in 3 had no insurance for all or part of 2009, the UCLA researchers found. The ranks of uninsured children also grew.

How many of those are illegal invaders and do not deserve sickcare?

Fuck you megahurtz.

yes, fuck you megahurtz. you’re megahurtzing my brain.

i’m one of the 25% and its plainly obvious that you basically have to luck into a job that happens to offer healthcare, otherwise you’re screwed. individual plans are nightmares that suck up what little income i have left. and more and more employers are finding ways to redefine their entire organizational setup (in name only, of course) to prevent having to provide healthcare for employees, as is the case with me.

fuck the public option; for all the fight they’ve put up against even the mildest pro-insurance industry legislation, we should cut off their balls and destroy whatever is left of this stupid, stupid system that is making billions on suffering. we should all be able to walk into a doctors office and receive FREE (and i mean that in ways i’ll get into in a sec) physical and mental care. thats how it is everywhere else in the modern world, except here in the united $tate$ of america.

also, and i don’t mean to take over the blog, but it would be awesome if you collected data on how pharmaceutical companies basically buy off doctor’s offices with free meals in order to have their drugs pushed onto patients. i deliver food for a living and half of our clientele are pharmaceutical reps buying expensive meals (of relatively unhealthy food and sodas, of course) for doctors offices. this is pretty indicative of the shift of profit in the health industry from doctors to drug companies, insurance, and healthcare administration.

start here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOW8LNU2hFE

this is the type of woman i’m meeting every day. they are always pretty, they are always young, they are always charming, and in ALL cases they are women (sex appeal, anyone?). in other words they are awesome saleswomen for an extremely rich industry that is trying to establish more diseases (like restless leg syndrome) to treat with their drugs because there is only a 20 year lifespan on the patent protection for their drugs before they turn generic and cheap (and most of that lifespan is spent trying to get the drug onto the market).  their in a race with time to make as much money as possible on our ailments and hypochondria.

DOCTORS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTHCARE IN THIS COUNTRY.  isn’t that odd?

Your article makes it sound as though our government is considering something akin to Universal Coverage.  Presently it sounds like the legislation under consideration is more like the Massachusetts health care plan wherein insurance is required by all people.  The idea is that forcing healthy people to purchase health insurance will lower the cost of health insurance for non-healthy people.  Being a healthy person, admittedly a relatively poor healthy person, I find this to be objectionable.  I don’t have health insurance because the freakishly high cost of health insurance is not worth the value that I receive from that health insurance.  Paying for health insurance would put me even closer to bankruptcy.  It is my very selfish opinion that supporting the current health care bill is being ‘mean’ to people like me.  But then again, I don’t make for very good tv fodder.  At least not until I end up in some social welfare line…