Honorable Charles Gonzalez, 20th Congressional District
To the Honorable Charles Gonzalez:
Sir I am writing this message to implore you to make every effort to reinstate one thing into the health care reform bill during the reconciliation process. The one thing is to remove the exemptions the insurance companies enjoy from our anti-trust laws.
I believe this single change will do more to [...]
Letter to Charles Gonzales, 20th Congressional District, TX
The Honorable Charles Gonzalez
Dear Representative, it has been reported by Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC in the Huffington Post that health insurance companies are exempt from the Sherman anti-trust laws.
If this report is accurate and true why is this the case? You have stated you want fair and open competition but I fail to [...]
Honorable Charles Gonzalez 20th District Replies, More Spin
They honorable Charles Gonzalez once again responds with spin and a sales pitch. Once again he does not address the issue I posed to him about removing the exemptions the insurance companies enjoy regarding the anti-trust laws nor answer the question, “will he fight to get this law repealed?” I am so tired of being [...]
New Letter to the Honorable Charles Gonzalez, 20th Congressional District
This is my latest communication with my Congressman. I truly believe the one thing that will lower the cost of coverage is competition. The fact that the health insurance industry enjoys an exemption and is allowed to establish monopolies is ridiculous. The fact that one Senator had it removed from the Senate version to enhance [...]
More Stimulus, TARP dollars for jobs
Yesterday I posted correspondence to and from my Congressional Representative, Charles Gonzalez. I had expressed my concern with growing size of the debt of this country and the continued spending by Washington without regard to the results. His reply to me illustrates how detached Congress is from the reality of what is happening to folks [...]
More Stimulus, TARP Dollars For Jobs and Congressional Representative Charles Gonzalez Views on the Subject
Yesterday I posted correspondence to and from my Congressional Representative, Charles Gonzalez. I had expressed my concern with growing size of the debt of this country and the continued spending by Washington without regard to the results. His reply to me illustrates how detached Congress is from the reality of what is happening to folks around the country.
Charles Gonzalez 20th District: Response to RodZ on Healthcare Anti-trust Repeal
Here is the response from Representative Gonzalez concerning repeal of the anti-trust exemption for the insurance companies. It would have been nice to get a status of the bill. The summary states:
Official Summary
9/17/2009–Introduced.Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009 – Declares that nothing in the McCarran-Ferguson Act shall be construed to permit health insurance [...]