Quick fix marketing, and long term politics.

[Brian37]

In the past couple of years I have seen a sudden increase of "addiction" adds for what to the layperson would seem like help. But what I see is the same quick edit marketing I see for Lawyer services and "BUT WAIT, ACT NOW AND YOU'LL GET THE SECOND FREE, just pay fees and shipping".

This is simply another marketing scam where insurance companies prey on the addicted and use fake adds to convince those that "free help" is available. Well yes and no. It is not to benefit the addict in an altruistic sense, but the third party referral entity. The tax payer simply ends up putting more money in the bank account of the "referral service" or the actual insurance company that pays for your treatment.

It is corporate crap, not designed to help the addicted but to help out third party exploiters and insurance companies. If the assholes who ran these "referral" services and the insurance companies who say they "pay" cared about the addicted, it would not read or be viewed like a fast past nutty used car salesman. 

We DONT need adds that benefit ultimately the private sector. We need the top to pay taxes.

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I just caught the fine print in one of the adds again, and it refers to potential callers as "customers". NICE, so the vulnerable are a commodity?

[CapnAwesome]

Lul wat??

[vorlon13]

It is possible to go sober without rehab. Imminent death has a way of providing focus and motivation that definitely exceeds filling out insurance forms.

[CapnAwesome]

It is possible to go sober without rehab.  Imminent death has a way of providing focus and motivation that definitely exceeds filling out insurance forms.

Did you actually understand what he typed out there? Something about people adding something and rich people need to pay more taxes? I think I need a translator for Brian's posts.

[Brian37]

It is possible to go sober without rehab.  Imminent death has a way of providing focus and motivation that definitely exceeds filling out insurance forms.

Did you actually understand what he typed out there? Something about people adding something and rich people need to pay more taxes? I think I need a translator for Brian's posts.

No you don't, you summed it up right.

We are allowing far too much of the top to write laws that allow this. If we had universal health care and the rich payed more in taxes and workers had better pay, these adds wouldn't exist. These addiction adds are not public service adds they are third party referral adds and the money ends up in their bank accounts after the insurance company and rehab center get their cut.

[dyresand]

the quickest fix actually in the long run is to primary a good 70%+ people out of power currently speaking.
and to be realistic starting out id say around 1 to 5% start small work your way up from there. That is the only way
to get things done. Since more people are running as of now against big name people those smaller people with grass roots
campaigns are really popular and even now as we speak democrats are being primaried.

[brewer]

OP: Did you wake up on the wrong side of the victim bed?