Health care victory

[Loyal Rogue]

I don't think that is remotely true. Over-all, the US has the best quality of health care in the world if you don't use any of the metrics commonly used by any authority in the world that measures overall quality of medical care and just focus on a single type of illness.

Fixed.

28% funding from NIH. That indicates that more than double that comes from industry.

And as I mentioned, the funding from for-profit industry does not go to the same kind of research as non-profit university and government research.
There is a huge difference both in profit margins and actual medical benefits between something like a polio vaccine and something like a heartburn drug clone.
One saves lives, the other is a billion dollar a year industry.
Guess which one the "industry" is pursuing with it's dollars.

If a person has a winnable case, there are attorneys like Edwards and Brokovich there to represent and profit from it. Someone not being able to sue a giant company with billions of dollars is an indication that they never had a case.

In a single word... Bull****.
That may be the most ridiculous and out-of-touch-with-reality assumption you've ever made.

You are stating unequivocally that every single legitimate case is prosecuted in court and won or it wasn't a legitimate case to begin with?!?

You are also stating unequivocally that every bankrupt patient with a simple claim denial can just call up a famous attorney and have them represent the case for free?!?

We're talking about ordinary, everyday claim denials for expensive medical treatments, not some one-in-a-million case of a defective product killing a child.

If the company has paid for someone else to have the treatment, they have no case denying someone else. One sentence wins that case "Have you paid other clients with the same policy for this treatment?"

The problem being that most people that get screwed by the insurance industry cannot afford to hire an attorney, take a few years off from work, and continue to pay the mounting legal fees in order to see the case through to the end.
However, the insurance company can afford to put you in exactly that situation.
Your hypothetical question is moot if it never gets the chance to be uttered in court.

I guess in your world, you hysterically speculate that they do. Perhaps you don't understand the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance.

And I guess you don't understand the difference between right and wrong so long as you can get away with it.

Trivia question for you... guess who paid the IRS more taxes this year, me and our little web design company, or General Electric who made over $10 billion last year?
If you guessed me, you are correct.
GE paid $0 by exploiting loopholes and diverting profits to overseas tax shelters.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-...ate-taxes.html