Because if you Beat a Dead Horse enough, its Twitching Corpse will at least have a Semblence of Life

But really, the health care debate isn't over yet.

Last week, Govenor Sonny Perdue filed suit against the health care plan.

Despite its flaws, the legislation does take a decisive step toward improving access to health care for the uninsured, including those locked out of coverage because of pre-existing ailments. That should help lower costs by using preventive care to help stave off expensive illnesses.

Uninsured people are a danger to the entire population: everyone pays if an uninsured person needs to use an emergency room, and people living in the same city pay when an uninsured person develops an infectious disease.

Yes, if the uninsured kid down the block contracts tuberculosis and can't afford treatment, there's the possibility that he can spread it on to your potentially unvaccinated child.

One aspect of diseases is that they mutate. Everytime a virus enters a cell and transcribes its DNA, the possibility arises for mistakes in the encoding. That's called mutation, and it happens every time a new virus is made, and millions of new viruses are made over the course of an infection.

And if a disease mutates enough, it can bypass the immune system because it looks like a new disease. That's why pennicilin is no longer the miracle drug. Anyway, imagine if our Polio vaccines became ineffective because one uninsured child developed it. In these enlightented times it is impossible to imagine a grainy 1930's town where children had to wear casts on their legs or breath through Iron Lungs, but it would be scary.

However, in Conservative's defense, this health care bill doesn't exactly solve the problem of the Infected. ahem:

"Insurance lawyers maintain that, while they would be required to pay for conditions of any child they insure, they are not obliged to take on the child in the first place. According to the newspaper, this could mean entire families get rejected if one of their children has a pre-existing condition, or that the policy simply specifies that it will not cover costs associated with it."

Well done you souless capitalist gits. Kick all the crying babies in the world so you don't have to give up your 2nd private jet.

7 of the top 12 insurance companies are in the top 500 richest companies in America, with UnitedHealth Group ranked at 37 and WellPoint at 38. Even if health insurance isn't the most lucrative industry in the world, WellPoint reported earning 61,579.2 million dollars in 2008, not including the money stashed away in foreign bank accounts. Profit margins were reported at 4.07%. That still means they have over 2,500,000,000 dollars profit. With 42,000 employees and an annual Income of 30,000 required to live relatively luxuriously (1,260,000,000), that still leaves a maximum buffer of over a billion dollars left for the occasional deal they loose money on.

It's probably a bit more complicated than that, but 1 billion dollars is a wide margin.


http://www.ajc.com/opinion/the-editorial-board-s-414848.html

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/03/29/2244789.aspx

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/dpgonc-insurance-companies-find-loopholes-in-new-health-bill-fc-20100329_6808217