Protect health insurers!

Video 1: Well said. I mean... well satirized.
Video 2: The beast shows empathy. Proof of evolution right there.

Oh, by the way Jim, make sure you check out Herzog's new "Bad Lieutenant", if even just for one brutally cynical scene that has an outrageous(ly funny) response to all those screaming "Grandmas A Gonna Die!" out there. Without giving it away, I'll say the crowd I was at with TIFF seemed like they were trying not to laugh... because it's so terrible to think but so on the tip of our tongues.

A perhaps better title for this piece, Jim: "Life Doesn't Make Sense Anymore..."

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All this proves is that he can read polling numbers...

The interesting thing is that health insurance companies can't afford to insure their employees! They have to pay for the insurance policies themselves!

Bill O'Reilly supports public option? Finally, something so truly good for the people even Bill O'Reilly can't disagree with the left wing!

I, for one, am overjoyed to find that such notable celebrities would endorse such a worthy campaign. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Michael B. McCallister
CEO Humana Health Insurance Co.
www.humana.com

*(In the event of a lawsuit from Humana, the above comment is purely satirical. I am not Mr. McCallister, nor do I purport to have any knowledge of Mr. McCallister's approval or disapproval of the posted PSA)

Funny that Will Ferrell, a man who makes $20 million for a couple months of work at a time acting in such important artistic endeavors as "Semi-Pro" and "Land of the Lost", is complaining about people getting paid too much.

Ezra,

"Funny that Will Ferrell, a man who makes $20 million for a couple months of work at a time acting in such important artistic endeavors as "Semi-Pro" and "Land of the Lost", is complaining about people getting paid too much."

Yeah, but what Will Ferell does is part of capitalism. Health insurance companies are not capitalists. Movies, if they want to increase profits, they might advertise, follow formulaic filmmaking, hire Will Ferrell etc., which doesn't, in effect, make movie tickets more expensive: the movie ticket price stays the same as a result of this. With health insurance, or, by the way, other profitable health-related schemes, when they put on their "capitalistic" hat and attempt to increase profit, it makes health insurance more expensive for everybody because they do unnecessary tests, or they invest in your death with dangerous surgeries or funding tobacco advertisements, for example, so that they can take your money and even further not have to provide their "service"...or not at all, hopefully. With capitalism, the more a service is demanded, the more it is supposed to be cheaper for the consumer, not more expensive, like what has happened with computers, for example, and only more people need health insurance year after year; with health insurance, more service means more money not just from you but for everybody.

The debate is about power, not charity, as many people think it is or are purposely propagandizing.

Keith,

You seem to have capitalism bass ackwards. The more a service is demanded, the more expensive it gets for the consumer. Everybody wants to own beachfront property but it's relatively scarce and relatively expensive. When there's a doctor in every family and MRI machines at garage sales, that's when health services get cheaper. Health insurance companies don't require expensive tests or surgery. They'd much rather you take two aspirin and never call again. They also don't want you to die soon because dead people don't pay premiums. They want you to live long enough to be Medicare's problem.

The debate is indeed about power not charity. Government's not real big on charity, but it does like accumulating power.