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 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 [...]
Washington’s View on Health Care
I have been watching the health care wars for sometime now and believe that we have an administration that is sending a mixed message to the American people. If you listen to the President and all the others telling you that we must do something to cut costs because we cannot sustain doing nothing, you [...]
Senate Health Care Still A Secret: Doesn’t Reed Get It?
After a few weeks at home and some key elections you would think the leadership would begin to see that America is a fiscal conservative, socially moderate country. The liberals are about 20% of the population and control a hundred percent of the House, Senate and the Presidency. The Tea Party groups were dismissed as [...]
Arizona Mayo Clinic Drops Medicare Patients.
Fox News reported that the Mayo Clinic in Arizona is no longer taking Medicare patients because they are only recovering about 55% of their costs. I see this as a trend that is not likely to end anytime soon. The Congress thinks it can fix health care but has never done anything to fix Medicare. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Keith Oblermann: Impassioned Plea or Spin
I watched the Keith Olbermann show, Countdown, for several nights in a row and listened to his moving plea for healthcare reform. In this hour long program Keith spoke passionately of his father’s brush with death and how he was thankful that he was able to get one of the top five surgeons in the world [...]
Health Care Reform Past and Present
On Oct 13th there was a vote in the Senate Finance Committee for President Obama’s health care reform. The Senate Finance Committee voted 14 to 9 to move the 5th and final health care reform proposal through the conservative panel. In the past about 1912 Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to have a [...]
Senator John Cornyn’s Position on HealthCare
The following is Senator Cornyn’s response to my question of what his position is on healthcare reform. I find it interesting that he makes no mention of trying to overturn the exemption from the Sherman anti-trust laws that insurance companies enjoy, especially since the law affects Texas. What you see in the response is the [...]
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