Health Care Reform What IS IT Really?
I have been watching our Senators debate the health care reform bill for a while now and wonder what we are really getting. Do you know? If so would you tell me?
All I see is the insurance and the pharmaceutical companies getting richer, the congressmen and women getting deals for votes and 45 thousand folks still don’t have insurance and by 2019 29 thousand will still not be insured. I see the process in action and no change in sight, except to our incomes. They will be going down as insurance cost go up as do the taxes we will all pay. There are just to many back room deals being made. If you question the Democrats they just say it is always this way, the Republicans do it. Well my friends, like I used to tell my kids, “I don’t care what the other kids are doing, your not going to do it.”. Two wrongs still don’t make a right.
The single biggest item that would have lowered insurance cost was dealt out early in the process to secure one vote. One Senator screwed the entire population of this country. What was the single biggest thing, what was the one thing that would have substantially lower our premium costs? Taking away the insurance companies protection from the anti trust laws. Letting us buy insurance from any insurance company that would offer us the best deal.
Think about how high your car insurance would be if they had that sweetheart deal. It is my opinion that, that one change would have lowered premium cost and increased benefits substantially, but that one Senator had a large insurance industry in his state and put his pot of gold before the American people.
I will be on Medicare by the time all these changes are put in place, I hope they did not destroy it. I hope there are doctors still taking Medicare patients. I don’t know what is ahead except we will start paying for it for several years before we see one benefit.
There are many more government programs going to be pushed by this Congress and Administration, I hope we the people will see the outcome of health care reform and take a stand against this type of whole sale sell out of the American people.
You will now hear all the Democrats out there selling this bill as the greatest fundamental change in the history of this country. They will be right. It does fundamentally change this country. We are going to look more like Europe than we ever wanted to.
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Bigger, more powerful government. Less individual liberties and individual rights to free choice
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Rod
With no public option, no Medicare buy-in, no removal of anti-trust law exemptions for the health insurance industry (all the things that progressives wanted in the bill and that would have amounted to real reform) and with an individual mandate that provides private sector insurance companies with about 30 million new customers, this Senate bill is nothing but a giveaway to big insurance companies. This bill is capitalism at its worst. Have you been following the skyrocketing stock index for Wellpoint, Aetna, CIGNA, and the other big insurance companies? Have you been reading what health insurance lobbyists have said about this bill? They have proclaimed victory. They won. And still you guys are crying about the non-existent “socialist” agenda of this administration? Give me a break! One reason I am a registered independent is because BOTH parties have sold their souls to corporate America. Real conservatives and real progressives know this.
By the way, if you are interested in an excellent conservative blog, check out Front Porch Republic, it is a gem.
Bridgid
Well Bridgid, Isn’t that what I’ve been saying? We were gonna get sold out?