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The Health Care Scam By: Amy Vedder  |
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Everybody is talking about health care and the possibility of a national health care system. Never mind the fact that Washington has been talking about the creation of a national health care system since President Truman, but I digress. Yes, national health care is on the table, but if select democrats and republicans get their way, it won’t be the single payer system most of the nation is hoping for.
Here’s the big problem, and it won’t come as a shock; the health care industry has and continues to poor so much money into the coffers of our elected officials that the likely hood of a single payer system coming into existence is slim to none. Here’s the thrust of the talking point being issued by the insurance companies against a single payer system:
A single payer system will put a government bureaucrat between you and your doctor. False. But let’s say that it was true, that there would be a government employed citizen between you and your doctor. That is still better than what we have now which is a private (for profit) business sitting between you and your doctor. A business that makes more money the more services they refuse.
The creation of a single payer system would cause over 120 million people to dump their private insurance for the single payer system and that would cause the private insurance companies to raise premiums on the remaining 40 million people who are opting to stay with their private insurance. The idea here is that people wouldn’t be able to keep their current insurance as President Obama has suggested, because a public single payer system would cause the cost of private insurance to become too costly. Again false. Competition is good. It is always good. If private companies can’t compete they will go out of business and other companies will rise to take their place. That is the way the free market system works.
This isn’t a democratic or republican issue, this is an American issue, and right now Americans are getting lied to by both democrats and republicans that are in the pocket of the health insurance companies.
Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana has public said she will not support a single payer health care system. Why? The only ones who lose with the public option are a small group of individual who profit from the current system. Could her objection to a single payer system be based on her loyalties to her financial backers? Is she voting her own interests over the interests of the American people?
And then there is Republican Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa who recently voiced his objection to a single payer system by quoting a study done by a research group, which is not an independent think tank as quoted by the Senator, but rather is a research group funded by the health insurance giant United Health Care. So basically the Senator’s objections to a single payer system are based on a press release issued by an insurance company.
We don’t have a health care system, we have a health care scam, and the American people are flipping the bill. If the people of America want real reform in the health care system they had better demand it, because Washington isn’t going to do it on their own, of that much they have made certain.
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