Vote NO on health care as the Senate passed it
December 20th, 2009 by Max
I’m with Howard Dean.
Months ago I told my old roommate Kevin that I was in favor of competition for health insurance companies. He told me the insurance companies only competition is to see if they can drop more sick people!
I thought about it and he’s right.
Then I learned that only Major League Baseball and the health insurance industry have an exemption from Anti-Trust laws. If you don’t know what an Anti-Trust law is … well it means they don’t have to compete with each other, they can work together.
I want to repeat that. The health insurance companies don’t have to compete with each other by law. That’s WAY too big an advantage for them.
And how would an insurance company compete anyway? Their job is to take in as much money and pay as little money out as possible. The best way to do that is to insure the healthy and dump the sick!
Health insurance is something that everyone should have. Something everyone needs. Where we all pool money together to insure that we can get well if we get sick. 100% of people need it.
So why should there be competition. Its not like everyone has a choice. You will get sick, or injured or your family will, at sometime, you hope it is a while away, but you want the opportunity to get well when you do. The problem is, insurance has an incentive to take your money, and an incentive to not pay it out.
And I believe in incentives.
I believe that everyone has an incentive to pay health insurance, and I believe that people should receive service for the money they pay.
The insurance company has an incentive to NOT pay for your medical treatment.
Along comes this bill.
In it is a mandate, that’s MANDATE, that 30 million more people sign up for health insurance.
In it, insurance companies can charge up to 300% more to sick people, who, remember, are mandated now to join at the rates for which the insurance companies have requested (read lobbied).
The insurance companies get 30 million new subscribers.
The people get no public option. The public option would be an insurance pool run by the government to compete with the for-profit insurance companies. It would provide competition.
As it is configured today in the Senate, the insurance companies have gotten what they lobbied for, 30 million more “must pay” clients. But they don’t have the same “must pay” obligation.
Lobbyists win again. Insurance wins again.
Howard Dean says this Health Care bill is fatally flawed and the Congress should start over.
I agree.
Howard says “The House bill is quite a good bill”. So maybe they can resolve a bill in conference committee where the “public option” is IN the final bill. Cuz right now, as Howard says “The insurance companies essentially wrote the bill” in the Senate.
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