HealthAmerica is part of
Coventry Health Care. From HealthAmerica's
website:
Whether you are an employer, broker, provider, or health plan member, we’re constantly improving the quality of care and service you receive.
If by improving you mean working only to satisfy your investors, then
denying a life-saving cancer treatment to a 5-year old boy Kyler Van Nocker, seems the profitable thing to do. Coventry and HealthAmerica are businesses, after all, right? They have to be profitable, yes?
But if they were actually involved in the process of health and care, then concern over achieving greater and greater profits would not be an issue. After all, health care is about saving lives and not about making a quick buck because that would be immoral. Profiting at the hands of very sick and dying people, well, that's really reprehensible, isn't it?
A government sponsored system, like Medicare, opened up to all United States Citizens, would free-up small businesses from having to insure their workers, would put money back into the system by increasing the risk pool with a larger, premium paying base, would allow us the choice of getting out of companies like HealthAmerica who refuse treatments based on the fact that it's expensive (never mind about saving 5-year old Kyler's life) and would save lives.
And no, saving lives is not socialism.
Keep at it members of the
GOP, you are all revealing yourselves as heartless profit-mongers, interested in keeping the American people under the thumb of the Health Insurance Industry, securing your campaign coffers with huge health insurance and big pharma donations and not much else--certainly nothing to do with your constituents, the American people. John Boehner, have you ever had an original thought that did not involve yourself? Why are you in politics? Eric Cantor, same for you, what motivates a person to fight against equal health care for all in this, the supposedly richest nation in the world? You can throw money and lives at needless wars, but not put it back by investing in the health and well-being of our nation?
Here's Coventry's stock quote for today for all you investors out there:
| Feb. 12, 2010 12:38 p.m. ET | Minimum 20 Minutes Delayed |
| CVH | $22.22 |
| Change: |  0.38 (1.68%) |
| Volume: | 549,633 |
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| Previous Close | $22.60 |
| Today's Open | $22.30 |
| Intraday High | $22.38 |
| Intraday Low | $21.87 |
| 52 Week High | $27.27 |
| 52 Week High Date | 01/20/10 |
| 52 Week Low | $7.97 |
| 52 Week Low Date | 03/06/09 |
| Rolling EPS | 2.14 |
| PE Ratio | 10.3832 |
| Shares Outstanding | 147,983,000 |
| Market Capitalization | $3,288,182,260 |
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