Bob Cesca: “If the airlines were randomly dropping passengers out of airplanes at 30,000 feet, the airlines would be investigated, shut down or nationalized.”
And, yet, isn’t this pretty much what health insurance companies are doing? Dropping people.
I am sure that of they had donated enough money to Tom Carper and exlained that they needed to drop passengers to stay profitable there would be no problems.
That’s a scary thought because I think you’re right.
That’s what health insurers have done for years. But since we aren’t actually seeing the boy fall out of the balloon (sorry, I couldn’t resist!), we can ignore the impact.
Until it happens in our family.
The airlines would have gotten together to create their very own think tank (ala the Heartland Institute) to try to rewrite einsteinan physics in order to show that dropping people out of a plane would increase the aerodynamics of the vehicle.
And that einsteinan physics is just a theory anyway.
Perhaps we should set a trigger? Say, ten passengers dropped (per airline) over a 12 month period. That would trigger a stern look from Congress and the airline(s) would have to promise to drop fewer the following year.
Jason — perfect!
So I am still catching up on this week’s news and apparently the Senate Dems have a bill to strip the insurance companies’ antitrust exemption in the works. What is fun about this is that it would remove the exemptions this industry has for price fixing, bid rigging and market allocation. Making them compete in a non-protected manner, which would be a Good Thing.
Bad analogy, the airlines do not wait till 30,000 feet to throw people around.
Most routine maintenance is outsourced out of the country.
Last minute bag fees.
No Travel Bill of Rights.
Overbooking is common and encouraged.
I could go on and on but the travails of the airlines are worse than the health care system.
The airlines would respond in the same fashion that health insures have, if you try and regulate us we will immediatly start throwing more people out of the plane. See how government makes a problem worse. [ That,s sarcasm for you republicans who are reading this].