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What Do Short Sales and The Health Care Bill Have In Common? Case In Point.

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Have you ever done a short sale negotiation for a seller? Have you ever had to deal with Bank Of America, J P Morgan Chase, Bank of New York Mellon, Deutsche Bank?  health care reform debate

You know how tough that is. You know the lack of customer care your sellers get because they tell you about how they stay on the phone for 45 minutes only to get someone who won't help them. 

You know how many of your sellers tried, especially those who live in Florida, California and Arizona- to get a loan modification done before they called you to help save their home from foreclosure. 

Who has the power in a short sale? 

Now, don't get me wrong. I am not saying anyone is entitled to a short sale. That is not what this post is about. Stay with me here. 

What does the health care bill and the short sales have in common? The same players! The Wall Street thugs and the Banks are the heavy aggregate investors and owners of the major insurance companies! 

WOW, that really took my by surprise so I started to do a lot of research. 

You know you hear about everyone saying that the evil insurance companies are to blame for the health care costs, denying claims and high premiums. Our government is all too happy to point the finger at those big evil insurance companies. Well, that is what they want you to pay attention to so that you don't see what is really going on. Those big evil insurance companies are meeting in private at the White House. 

Lo and behold, these big evil insurance companies who deny your claims are the same ones who will benefit from the health care bill being passed. These big evil insurance companies that won't cover your condition because they say it was a preexisting condition are the ones that are backing up this health care bill, are paying for ads to get you to support it and are in bed with the government for the promise that they will get to be in control once again. When a public option gets passed, it won't be so public. The HMO's will get to run those programs and so if you think you are getting rationed care now, just wait to see what they have in store for you. 

You think that waiting for your short sale to get approved is taking way too long, wait until you need surgery! It is not even about the government. The same people deciding the fate of your homeowner doing a short sale or getting foreclosed on are the same people who will decide whether you get medical treatment or not and what you will have to pay for it. There is so much more than I can even put in a post. 

Let me break my research down for you and please do your due diligence also: 

AARP backs the health care plan. What does AARP stand to gain from supporting a health care bill that is going to cut services and treatment to their very own members? Well, guess what. The promise in return for AARP's support was that the bill will cut supplemental medicaid. That is like GAP insurance which all seniors need for services that medicaid itself does not cover. Who is the largest supplier of GAP insurance? AARP! That is not rocket science! 

Big Pharma supports the bill. Hmmm, does it take a brain child to figure that one out? Big Pharma has been promised no more pressure or laws to lower drug prices and of course a few more cronies on the FDA board so that Big Pharma can keep the little guy down, you know, the ones who actually have the cures for diseases instead of just treating the symptoms. There is no money in the cure only in the race for the cure. Think about it. 

Now, let's dig a little deeper: 

According to Fortune Magazine the top 5 HMO's in 2009 are:

 

  • UnitedHealthGroup who made $81Billion in revenue, 
  • Wellpoint who made $61 Billion, 
  • Aetna who made $31 Billion, 
  • Humana who made $29 Billion and 
  • Cigna with $19 Billion; of course, all while denying your claims and making your doctors go through heck to get paid and coming in between your doctor/patient relationship. 

 

health care reform And guess who is behind these companies?

Yep, those same folks who swindled us out of all that TARP money and Bail out money. You know, the money that was supposed to save those banks or else the world was going to fall apart? 

I did my research and on all of these top HMO's the following are actively present

 

  • Bank of America,
  • Bank of New York Mellon, 
  • Goldman Sachs ( ah gee, was that a surprise anyone?), 
  • J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and State Street. 
  • Oh we can't forget Barclay's- the British Company that got TARP money! 

 I also have the list of the money management firms involved in ownership. 

 

Wellpoint is one of the companies I researched and right on their website they list these short sale busters as being a part of their company! Something to be really proud of!  Let me give you the list of politicians on both sides of the isle in this scam on the American people. 

Wellpoint has quite the politician list: 

 

  • William Bush, younger brother of George HW Bush, 
  • Former US Senator and Banking Committee chairman Don Riegle-D-Mich, 
  • Sheila Burke who was the former chief of staff for Bob Dole-R-Kan, 
  • Susan Bayh who is the wife of Senator Evan Bayh-D-Ind. 

 

So while the government and the banks want you to keep giving your money to pay for more of their bail outs to the tune of $13 Trillion so far- they out of the other side of their mouths want to tell you what health care you can get, how you get it, how much you are going to pay for it and what it will or will not cover. 

I also researched Aetna and they were pushing for the Massachusetts's failed public care, they are all for this health care bill, (which should scare the pants off of you) they are for forcing everyone to have health insurance, gee, I wonder why! Their list goes on and on. 

This is not a new deal! This is about more of the same.  President Nixon is the one who started HMO pilot programs with Kaiser who on the White House tapes explains the amount of money that HMO's will get to make at the detriment to patients and doctors. Ted Kennedy led a bi partisan effort to sign HMOs into law in 1973. 

And last but not least- This bill is certainly not going to help the poor and indigent. The provision in the bill to take your medical records and electronically monitor them is the brain child of a company called Cerner. Nancy-Ann DeParle is the Counselor to the White House on Health Reform. She was the director of Cerner. Do you have any idea who is going to get that contract? Hmm, but worse than that is what this company has done to the poor people through this electronic management of medical records for the indigent of the inner city of Detroit. It will turn your stomach. 

Needless to say, before we approve of 2000 pages of anything- we need to know who has skin in the game, who is going to profit from these bills. 

Ask yourself if you do short sales- Is this who you want running your health care too?

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Comments (22)

Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Katerina,  I do get what short sale and health care have in common.  Rolls and rolls of red tape to get service from the  banks who are making it hard to sell an underwater home. They are the same ones who have financial interests in the health care insurance companies.

Excellent post.  I have heard about the connections before but you did a great job of tying everything together.

Nov 23, 2009 10:21 PM
Loan Survivor Real Estate Financing Expert
Purchases, First Time Buyers, Pre-Approvals, Refinance - Birmingham, MI

I've been doing some of my own research and getting more and more concerned about where this is all leading. 

On my paranoid days, I can easily see the financially elite of this country, turning us all into modern day serfs. 

The average American is being dumbed down with trash TV, being poorly educated and lulled into not even bothering to vote. 

In the near future the average American could be living in a home they used to own, now being subsidized by the government, living off food stamps, sending their kids to terrible schools that just pass their kids through, ignorantly/blissfully watching trash/dumbed down entertainment, lining up like sheep to get their government healthcare and vaccines (guinea pigs?), all the while being suckered in by the politically elite, promising the moon, but knowing they don't have to deliver anything to the people, just to the financial rulers.

The end of democracy is near, does the average American care enough to vote or revolt?

Luckily, I'm not that paranoid every day:)

Nov 23, 2009 10:28 PM
Colleen Fantini, Northeast Cincinnati Realtor
Comey & Shepherd Realtors - Landen, OH

Wow - thank you for breaking down this icky web of politics for us!  This will make for excellent debate at the Thanksgiving Day table (a staple tradition in our family - good heated political debate), and I will use this to contact my Senators (as useless as they are - Sherrod Brown and George Voinivich).  Thanks again, and have a blessed Thanksgiving!

Nov 23, 2009 11:48 PM
Rob Arnold
Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. - Altamonte Springs, FL
Metro Orlando Full Service - Investor Friendly & F

The more bureaucracy that is inserted into any system, the worse off we all are.  Everything the government touches turns to mud in the long-run.  Why would we want to hand over to them yet another giant segment of our economy.

Nov 24, 2009 12:12 AM
Kevin Robinson
Twin Falls, ID
Fractional Developer

Excellent posting. I am reblogging it and featuring it in Tea Party. You did a lot of research on this one.

Nov 24, 2009 12:37 AM
Jay-Paul Lowry
Riverside, CA

Just another tid bit...United Health....a majority ownership stake is held by Berkshire Hathaway aka Warren Buffett.

 

JP

 

yes he did just trim some holdings in that company but it really wasnt that much.

Nov 24, 2009 05:17 AM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

JP- And Buffet is also for the health care bill- hmmm, he is a great one for: "I made it to the top now I am going to shut the door on everyone else!" 

Nov 24, 2009 05:38 AM
Donna Quanrud
Coldwell Banker Burnet - Eden Prairie, MN
Donna Quanrud Southwest Metro Homes

Katerina

Interesting research.  United Health Care has done a 180 degree turn against support for the health care bill.  They were to be the vehicle used to roll out the public option but the govt decided to cut them out.  They have sent out two recent letters to their 18,000 employees to contact their Senators to vote no to health care.  I will find the slide that the head of United Health Group used in opposition at a recent medical conference and post it later

 

Also go to www.healthcarevote.com and answer a quick on line survey that will go directly to your Senators.  Let them know over the holiday how you feel about the health care bill.

Nov 24, 2009 07:59 AM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Donna- Ah, see how it goes. You don't get a cut in the deal- you vote no and say no to the bill. But if you get in on the deal, you vote yes! What a concept! LOL! NOT! 

My main point against the bill is that they want to force people, totally unconstitutional- to have insurance! I only want and have catastrophic insurance. I pay as I go, have a direct relationship with my doctors, get all the time I want with them, pay them a discounted cash price. I only go to the doctor 2 x a year, one for female check up and one for physical. I go to a homeopathic doctor, which of course, they want to outlaw- for all my medical needs which are few since we live a healthy lifestyle. We use massage therapists and chiropractors, acupuncture doctors- herbs and supplements.  I don't do over the counter meds or any prescription meds. I don't even take aspirin or Tylenol. I don't want an HMO and don't need one. I think people get used to going to the DR for anything and everything because they have insurance and it is easy to do so. WHen it comes out of your own pocket you think twice about what to go in for. 

Nov 24, 2009 08:06 AM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Donna- We need to get together- after this weekend, let's talk and revisit our project. 

Nov 24, 2009 08:07 AM
Laura Giannotta
Keller Williams Realty - Atlantic Shore - Little Egg Harbor, NJ
Your Realtor Down the Shore!

Excellent post, and great research.  I couldn't agree more...we certainly don't need more government! 

Nov 24, 2009 09:57 AM
Goodbye Active Rain
Out of Real Estate

Money and its handlers reach across every scope of our landscape.  It is all connected.

Nov 24, 2009 01:26 PM
Mike Jones
SUNSTREET MORTGAGE, LLC (BK-0907366, NMLS 145171) - Tucson, AZ
Mike Jones NMLS 223495

Katerina,

There is no money in the cure only in the race for the cure.  I hadn't thought about it that way.  Thanks for the post.

Mike in Tucson

Nov 24, 2009 07:18 PM
Margaret Woda
Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. - Crofton, MD
Maryland Real Estate & Military Relocation

Thank you for taking the time to do this, Katerina.  This whole thing just makes me sick!  I've always enjoyed excellent preventative medical care and no one in my family has ever dealt with a catastrophic health issue, so perhaps I just don't "get" why anyone feels the need to throw out the baby with the bathwater.  Why not adjust the temperature/costs through tort reform and fraud reduction before addressing further changes.

Nov 24, 2009 10:38 PM
Karen Rice Keller Williams Real Est
Keller Williams Real Estate - Hawley, PA
Northeast PA & Lake Wallenpaupack Home Sales

My husband and I continue to be dumbfounded at the direction our country is taking.  It literally makes me sick.

I don't want to be foreced to buy health care insurance either.  I am not lulled into any dumbed down state - but I will say that I do feel hopeless and helpless to change because so many people think this is the greatest thing on earth....  :( :( :(

Nov 25, 2009 12:16 AM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Karen- the new polls show only 35% want this, they just yell louder than the rest of us and use tactics most folks don't use to get their way:) :( 

Nov 25, 2009 01:15 AM
Lana Robbins Realtor ® Licensed Real Estate Broker
Aloha Kai Real Estate - Clearwater, FL
Licensed in Florida, Washington, and Hawai'i

Hi Katerina. Ditto what Karen in comment #17 stated. Some people think it will be free. It is not free healthcare.

BTW I am presently in the midst of another short sale and one of the lenders that you have listed still has a chip on their shoulder and one of their reps has been arguing with me about the latest comps LOL Arrogance and inefficiency at its finest after they were bailed out with TARP money which was tax payer money. Our money. ~ Lana

Nov 25, 2009 06:43 AM
Heather Fitzgerald
REALTY WORLD-Harbert Company, Inc. - Greenwood, IN
REALTOR Greenwood Indiana Real Estate

Time to do some more research, as this is frightening.  Also scary that it feels we are almost at the point of no return unless we all get together and strongly protest all of what is going on.

Nov 28, 2009 12:31 AM
Chris Brunner
GreatFX Printing - Springfield, MO
GreatFX Printing

This is quite possibly the greatest cash heist in the history of mankind.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." --Thomas Jefferson

Nov 28, 2009 05:23 AM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Chris- Oh I so agree with you and I use Thomas Jefferson quote there on many blogs for my comment!  It should be plastered on every newspaper and small biz building in our country! And they want us to be mad at Madoff and pay attention to him! What hypocrites! 

Nov 28, 2009 10:05 AM