http://osmosis-online.com/2009/09/03/facebook-no-one-should-die-health-care-meme-how-we-get-there/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:15:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://osmosis-online.com/2009/09/03/facebook-no-one-should-die-health-care-meme-how-we-get-there/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Will California Legalize Marijuana via Ballot Initiative? | Osmosis Online Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:12:30 +0000 http://osmosis-online.com/?p=414#comment-604 [...] Congress and the Legislature have been a little busy with health care and such (and, as I predicted back in September, it actually happened—if not exactly [...] [...] Congress and the Legislature have been a little busy with health care and such (and, as I predicted back in September, it actually happened—if not exactly [...]

]]> http://osmosis-online.com/2009/09/03/facebook-no-one-should-die-health-care-meme-how-we-get-there/comment-page-1/#comment-24 RNG Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:46:30 +0000 http://osmosis-online.com/?p=414#comment-24 One problem that I see with the co-op health care idea is that such organizations will have to compete against the insurance institutions that have been deemed too big to fail, like AIG, and pharmaceutical giants, like Pfizer, which is scheduled to complete a merger with Wyeth by the end of the year, thus making an already huge worldwide company even more powerful. Without government backing at least through infancy and adolescence, co-ops won't have much of a chance for survival. They will be thrown into a vicious competitive market place to be prey to the industry that already can manipulate the market -- and congress -- in its favor and sustain a strong PR compaign to convince the people not to join a co-op. And the people will be no better off then than they are now. One problem that I see with the co-op health care idea is that such organizations will have to compete against the insurance institutions that have been deemed too big to fail, like AIG, and pharmaceutical giants, like Pfizer, which is scheduled to complete a merger with Wyeth by the end of the year, thus making an already huge worldwide company even more powerful. Without government backing at least through infancy and adolescence, co-ops won’t have much of a chance for survival. They will be thrown into a vicious competitive market place to be prey to the industry that already can manipulate the market — and congress — in its favor and sustain a strong PR compaign to convince the people not to join a co-op. And the people will be no better off then than they are now.

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