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 see how this can be accomplished if the insurance companies enjoy protection under the law from competing insurance companies.

I also understand from the report that Texas is one of the states that allows this to occur. Why aren’t you trying to have this law changed in order to lower the costs.

Are you so bent on a government option that you cannot support fair and open competition?

I think that Tort Reform and eliminating the exemption from the anti-trust laws would go along way to reforming health care and not cost us billions of dollars.

What is your position on this?

Thank you for your time

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Come on America wake up! Our lives in this country are on the verge of changing in a manner you won’t like! Let’s face the facts! Our economy is in trouble!

The Bush administration rushed forward with an ill conceived plan that Congress rushed through the legislative process and the boys on the hill began to execute. The Obama administration continues to execute this plan, at least their version. The Obama team and Congress rushed through a stimulus plan to save and create jobs. Were these efforts effective? Hell I don’t know, but I do know that unemployment keeps rising, I do know we had to borrow trillions of dollars to support the legislation, I do know China is holding at least a trillion dollars of our debt and according to Ron Paul on the Beck radio program this morning, investing that money in Iran, I do know that the dollar is the world currency and their is a little doubt that if that changes and the dollar is devalued our country is in real trouble.

Many people are focused on health care reform, many on cap and trade, many on education reform and the list goes on. The point is they are all looking to the government to “fix” these issues. I maintain that the most important issue is this countries economy! If government spending and borrowing is not brought under control, if our debt is not reduced, all these grandiose plans will not really matter because we will be trying to figure out how to eat and how to live.

Listen, I am not an economist, I am not an expert in anything, I am just the common man wondering what happened and why the government did not do it’s job of oversight and regulation in the first place.

Listen folks, I wonder why if congress and the President are truly adamant about health care reform, then why are the Insurance companies exempt from the Sherman anti-trust laws? You may think that only Major League Baseball enjoys this benefit! Not true. On MSNBC’s Morning Meeting yesterday Dylan Ratigan was discussing this issue. He wrote an editorial in the Huffington Post describing this wonderful perk the insurance companies enjoy. The question he posed is simply, if you want reform why eliminate competition? My question is, why isn’t congress screaming to eliminate this wonderful perk, could it be campaign contributions? Could it be they really want a government single payer system? I DON’T KNOW, but true reform would bring cost down and not add to Americas debt!

I am truly concerned by how our government representatives are legislating us into a financial crisis. How the current administration is so naive and egotistical as not to be able to admit it is time to tighten our belts. They need to put all the social programs on hold until we can afford them and move towards debt reduction.

Listen, health care is not a right guaranteed to us in the constitution, I would love to have an efficient, cost effective, inexpensive health care program in this country with every citizen enjoying the benefits of coverage. I believe reform is necessary, but until we see honest full disclosure of all the issues and until it can be done budget neutral this will never happen. If we continue to push in the direction we are now it will further add to the cost of government and if combined with all the current bloated budget items this country will collapse financially.

So folks I say, Mr. President quit acting like the Chicago Chamber of Commerce or head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, come home and begin to focus on the issues of budget constraints and debt reduction.

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