U.S. NEEDS REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM

I love Barack Obama, but I think he has been “making nice” with insurance wolves.

I choose to think that he is just trying to open a door to health care change that has been hermetically sealed for decades, and believes he can improve an awful bill “later.”

But I do not believe that will happen. Vested interests and members of both political parties have been trying to trap him into pushing an unworkable health care “reform” that isn’t real reform, and will never be what Americans need it to be.

Regardless of his intentions, Americans need to look hard at any bill to see whether it actually reforms the way insurance companies operate.

Will it stop them from terminating or limiting coverage?

Will it provide a low-overhead not-for-profit one-payer option?

Or will the bill simply make it illegal for Americans to be uninsured, without providing a low-cost one payer option?

If so, think about that for minute. After all, insurance companies are.

INSURANCE COMPANIES SALIVATING

Make no mistake, insurance companies are salivating over the idea of making it illegal to not have health insurance, provided that there is no single payer option (a low-cost government administered option such as medicare) available.

Insurance companies want every American to be covered by insurance – their insurance. They want every American to be required to buy insurance or every employer to be required to provide insurance for employees, and for the government to pick up the tab for those too poor to pay.

Because that would mean billions more in profits for the top insurers.

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