The New York Times is asking for comments regarding mandatory health insurance.

If you can, take a moment to say NO – we need non-profit, Single-Payer healthcare for all!

Please add your comments at the NY Times site:

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/should-health-insurance-be-mandatory/?apage=6#comments

Senator Dodd asks: Is your health care working? What changes would you like to see? Add your ideas at YouTube’s Senate Hub at http://youtube.com/senatehub

Democratic Senators are writing a major health reform bill. Rising costs are hitting families and businesses and now 46 million Americans live without health coverage. We need reform. Respond now with your ideas as the Senate writes health care legislation. You can help.

Go To: http://www.youtube.com/senatehub (note: this is not the regular YouTube comment area)

Add your ideas, and be sure to VOTE on the other ideas submitted. If you can, vote FOR the SIngle Payer comments.

Thanks!

On May 27, Stevens released a study done by the latter center, which identified more than $540 billion in health-care costs the federal government could save over the next 10 years The report contains 15 cost-containment options in four categories; “incentivizing [sic] beneficiaries to use high-quality care providers; reducing avoidable and inappropriate care; supporting and incentivizing physicians to deliver high-quality appropriate care; and applying evidence-based standards to reimbursement policies.” It claims that, over the next 10 years, approximately $55 billion could be saved by reducing senior’s avoidable readmissions to hospitals. Also, $37 billion could be saved through voluntary programs that help seniors choose to receive care from high-quality and efficient care providers. And, $166 billion could be saved by reducing the need for people living in nursing homes to be admitted to a hospital.

In January of this year, the Attorney General of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, accused UnitedHealth Group Inc. of consumer fraud. Cuomo said at a press conference at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, that “it is not an overdramatization to say that it is a matter of life and death.” The way the scheme worked was that Ingenix — a United Health subsidiary and the country’s largest provider of health-care billing information—sets “usual and customary” rates for medical procedures. But Ingenix determined the rates by asking the insurance companies what to charge. Their estimates for reimbursement generally are much lower than what the patient paid. Cuomo said probers found that insurers using the Ingenix databases underpaid anywehere from 10% to 28% for certain claims in New York.

In exchange for avoiding a court fight, United Health Group Inc. said that it would create a database — overseen by an outside, nonprofit organization, to determine fair rates for reimbursement. It agreed to spend $50 million to reform its billing practices.

Cuomo said he would seek hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution for what he called a decade of “consumer fraud” affecting millions of out-of-network patients.

Thus, a company, which has committed hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud against U.S. citizens, is now making proposals to the Obama administration, on behalf of the British Empire’s Tony Blair, as to how to commit murder against Americans.