Why Do Senators Want to Kill My Kids?

I only have 7 years until I'm safely on Medicare.  Medicare which will always be there whether there is health care reform or not. 

Medicare which takes sick people and patches them up for the rest of their lives.  

It is said that if we get health reform, especially with a public option that people going into Medicare won't be as sick, won't have untreated Diabetes and other diseases that shouldn't have gone so long without a doctor's care.  

A lot of money can be saved from Medicare under universal coverage because people will enter the program less sick.

That too will save lives.  

But without a public option it will be very expensive for you. 

Sell that house now.  No one will be able to afford it when mandatory insurance w/o a public option comes into play.

Still, it's my kids and grandkids I worry about.  I don't see much hope for them with the status quo.

Everyone knows, that unless a person has a union job or fights their way up to one of the few privileged positions in a company,  their health insurance is crap which will float away the day they are diagnosed with an serious illness or at least one that stops them from working to be replaced, at the best, by unaffordable replacement that will fail to actually pay their astronomic medical bills.

And no you can't go into the emergency room for cancer care.  Please tell your Senators you aren't so stupid as to think you can get a biopsy, removal surgery,  chemo, etc. in an emergency room.  Big money must be paid in advance if you don't have an insurance company promising to pay for the treatment.  How many people do we have to hear tell of how the money wasn't paid by an insurance company to which the patient's family had paid tens of thousands of dollars in premiums, and the needed operation was delayed until it was too late.  

The best way to control health care costs (besides single payer or nationalized health care) is with a public plan.  

Even with massive controls on the health insurance industry via co-ops it will still cost more than natural competition from a public plan, and will be less capitalist, though the posturing Senators who are in the pockets of the health insurance industry would have you think differently.

In fact, the 'co-ops' were just weeks ago called 'utilities' until someone ran some focus groups and found people hate their 'public' utilities. 

'Utilities' are basically controlled by  the biggest companies in the industries they are supposed to control.  The heavies work their magic to basically regulate themselves into monopolies through their political donations.  Even at that though they are always seeking to get out of the small controls placed on them and then work miracles for their bottom line by tripling their already substantial bills.  Remember the California electricity crisis in 2000-2001.

Calling something a 'co-op' doesn't make it any less a 'utility'.

But, even worse, is to just go with the status quo or health insurance without the public plan as competition or any controls. 

If you want to see real poverty and deaths of young people because of a lack of medical care, back that plan. Many Senators are doing just that.

Like I said "Why do they want to kill my kids (and my grandchildren)?

Write  or phone your Senators today and tell them to support a public plan or face primary challenges or replacement in the general election.    See "Contact Your Senators By Web Form (And Even Better Ways)".  This time you can't leave it to other citizens and the the right wing's auto-spammers and town hall disrupters.  It's too important.

tags: medicare  health care reform  health insurance lobby  wall street  public option  health insurance coops  health insurance utilities  

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