Thursday, July 09, 2009
Health Care Reform
President Obama addresses everyone about health care reform and gets some boos. Republican politicians and some Democrats say that they’ll dig in their heels if there is a public option in the reform. The health insurance and pharmaceutical companies are lobbying heavily to keep the status quo. No one is listening to what the people want. Whether Democrat, Republican, liberal or conservative, people want affordable health coverage that doesn’t drive them into poverty. Reform needs to happen, but there can be no reform of the health care system without a public option.
The people have been at the mercy of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies for too long. It has become like being extorted for money. You want health care: Pay or die! The health insurance industry raises its prices every year far above the rate of inflation. They aren’t regulated and certainly don’t want that to happen now. Of course they fear a public option. It will level the playing field by adding competition back into the equation for them and destroy their monopoly hold on the people.
A public option available as a choice will help people to afford insurnace while making the insurance companies compete by lowering their prices. President Obama just want to give people choice, not force everyone into a government run system. The health insurance companies don’t want this because it might put some of them out of business. Cutting off their stranglehold on us is not something they want, so they come out with the scare tactics. Single payer is bad! It’s socialism! Nations that have such programs like Canada ration medical care. Strange that I don’t hear of these countries having high death rates due to their systems and Americans are being rationed now by greedy private companies.
It’s time to turn the tide on these companies. They must be made to compete or go out of business. They shouldn’t be allowed to extort money from us. Medical service should be a humanitarian service, not a for profit business and playing god with people’s lives. Health care is a universal right not a privilege for the few.
The people have been at the mercy of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies for too long. It has become like being extorted for money. You want health care: Pay or die! The health insurance industry raises its prices every year far above the rate of inflation. They aren’t regulated and certainly don’t want that to happen now. Of course they fear a public option. It will level the playing field by adding competition back into the equation for them and destroy their monopoly hold on the people.
A public option available as a choice will help people to afford insurnace while making the insurance companies compete by lowering their prices. President Obama just want to give people choice, not force everyone into a government run system. The health insurance companies don’t want this because it might put some of them out of business. Cutting off their stranglehold on us is not something they want, so they come out with the scare tactics. Single payer is bad! It’s socialism! Nations that have such programs like Canada ration medical care. Strange that I don’t hear of these countries having high death rates due to their systems and Americans are being rationed now by greedy private companies.
It’s time to turn the tide on these companies. They must be made to compete or go out of business. They shouldn’t be allowed to extort money from us. Medical service should be a humanitarian service, not a for profit business and playing god with people’s lives. Health care is a universal right not a privilege for the few.
Labels: conservatives, Democrats, health care, liberals, moderates, Republican
# posted by Freedomstar @ 6:36 PM 
