Health Insurance Reform??
The words of Barack Obama on the address posted and emailed to all who are on the Barack mailing list. Health Care reform became “health insurance reform”. This change in language says it all to me, Barack you lost me. Notice I didn’t call him President Barack Obama. That’s right you get exactly what I mean.
WE JUST GOT RUN OVER BY THE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THE SPECIAL INTERESTS!
The propaganda machinery of the medical industrial complex is now spinning stories of how insurance companies don’t like the bill, well this is sheer poppy cock. They love the bill, they can’t say that because the game would be up. After getting things in the bill tweaked just so they now have to pretend they don’t love it, they do! Not only are they saved but will get bigger and profits will be larger. Here’s a tip buy their stock. The reform won’t kick in till 2013 I can’t believe they could wait that long.
Just for the record I am and always was for a single payer system. No where in the bill am I reading about the cost of health care coming down, that is the actual cost and prices of medicine and services being lowered which is really where our problem is, rather that insurance will be available for all and if you don’t buy one they will be penalties. People who are earning over the poverty level will be asked to pay around 2.5% to as much as 12% in some financial categories of their income for this insurance, it doesn’t say what the co -payments are and believe me there will be those. What are they smoking in DC? This category of income cant afford to even live in the worst parts of any major city yet they are being compelled to have buy insurance. This we call health care reform.
I read some of the comments made on several blogs and websites by people about how they have insurance and made the wise choices in life that is why they can afford it. Then the 17% of people who lost their jobs and are currently employed made the wrong choices right? Others were commenting about the deficit and the debt being increased and the government take over. I guess we should trust business to do the right thing, that is why we are in such a good shape?
Why did they remove the Kucinich amendment which allows states to implement their own single payer system if they choose to. Why? What gives them the right to take away our rights and force us to accept their choices. What is so threatening about this amendment. I can tell you why, this is how Canada was able to get the single payer actually eventually enacted.
This reform is a sham.
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