Jerry Flanagan Quotes

What the HMOs can't explain is why premiums are increasing twice as fast as hospital and physician costs.

Recent mergers have given the industry a strangle hold over the health insurance market. With fewer pressures for efficiency and no government oversight of rates, insurers have been given free rein to spend more of our health care dollars on overhead, profit, and administration. The last decade of HMO mergers has taught us that when fewer HMOs dominate the health care market, quality goes down, premiums go up, and patients get short changed. Already, 45 million Americans are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the insurers' ransom.

HMOs and insurers pumping up their coffers at the detriment to seniors is a blight on the Medicare prescription drug benefit and is the last straw of their looting and pillaging of health care.

But those that need affordable health care most can't afford to invest. More than half of those already enrolled in these plans have not put any money in their health savings account.

Requiring something people cannot afford is not a solution to solving the health care crisis.

We're in a new universe of healthcare coverage, where it is a commodity only for the wealthy.