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StumbleLETTER TO THE EDITOR:
To fix health care, point by point
Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009 | 2:03 a.m.
Here is health care reform in a nutshell:
• There should be health insurance for all — from the unborn, to the parents, to the homeless, to the Congress, to the White House and on to the grave.
• Consolidate and place every federal, state, private and other types of health insurance plans under the same umbrella to cut repeated bureaucratic expenses and save trillions of taxpayers’ dollars.
• Ask for, push for and accept only a single-payer public health plan
• Press private insurance companies to accept legitimate competition or get them out of our personal health.
• To those who want the government off their backs and can afford private health insurance: Go buy it own your own. The insurance companies will keep building high-rise towers and their CEOs will make millions in salaries, stocks, bonuses and golden parachutes at the expense of those who can afford it.
• The problem is solved, trillions are saved and almost everyone is rather pleased.
Enough is enough. Democrats, Republicans, lobbyists, conservatives, liberals and town-hall troublemakers as well as the media must stop horsing around and start thinking seriously about the future of their families and their country.
Folks, it’s time for us all to wake up.
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"Ask for, push for and accept only a single-payer public health plan. Consolidate and place every federal, state, private and other types of health insurance plans under the same umbrella to cut repeated bureaucratic expenses and save trillions of taxpayers' dollars."
Still no evidence that this would work. Not from the CBO not from anybody.
McCarran-Ferguson Act (1945) passed within a year of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ending anti-trust exemptions that insurance companies had enjoyed for decades. No one is seriously discussing striking down McCarran-Ferguson today.
It's not part of the current conversation in the House and Senate bills. McCarran-Ferguson is "a big, messy problem that would be very difficult to unwind ... I don't see any part of this legislation that's going to try to reform McCarran-Ferguson,"
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies writes in an online posting this spring that any change to McCarran-Ferguson "could decrease market stability, reduce affordability and availability of products, stifle innovation and expansion, diminish industry efficiency, and ultimately, inhibit rather than increase competition in the insurance marketplace."
The author starts with;
Consolidate and place every federal, state, private and other types of health insurance plans under the same umbrella to cut repeated bureaucratic expenses and save trillions of taxpayers' dollars.
Then goes on to speak about private insurance like it exists. If his first statement is reached, the idea of private insurance or insurance companies no longer exists. This is the problem with the democratic talking points. As usual, they conflict with themselves and reality.
listen to the brilliant birdie...
it is very very simple...
you either support the excessive profits of the greedy pig insurance companies and their very real death panels and the excessive salaries of the money grubbing whore doctors...
or...
you support reform and the public option which is the every best means to drive the cost of health care down...
period...
end of story...
Health Reform in a Nutshell... Health Reform not a government takeover of the entire health care system.
The author of the letter is hilarous.
Many of his points are not being pushed by Obama his leader.
He is leaderless.
SgtRock:
His leader is also your leader and my leader.
For the next 8 years we will all have a GREAT
LEADER.
Sgt Rock can be lead to water but you cant make him drink. It takes a true leader to lead by example. Followers of a true leader will drink because of trust in the leader.
The President is not leading health reform, He is trying to push health reform. Not a characteristic of a good leader.
LarryVegas:
President Obama is not done yet,just watch
and learn. Our leader is at work.
I am not impressed so far.... Wait, he is good at naming Czars...