No Government Enforced Bondage to The Insurance Companies !

No Government Enforced Bondage to The Insurance Companies!
By Jim Ramelis

There has been lots said about the proposed national health care bill but we are just now starting to see what the finished product may look like. I identify politically as a Progressive and usually support the Democrats but do not support this health care bill. My right wing brothers and sisters dislike the bill because they say it is government run healthcare. I oppose this bill because it is not government run health care. This bill is government imposed healthcare, putting working people in bondage to the insurance companies. It actually makes not having a health insurance policy a crime. Very few people are actually going to be served by this puny weak public option. The public option may even be more expensive than buying from a private insurer. Also, the public option may be run by a private insurer. Most people are going to be in this “insurance exchange” being created and they are going to be buying from this pool of insurance companies. We the tax payers are going to be funding the purchase of these policies, to varying degrees, based on the income of the purchasers. Once again, the money flows upward to the wealthy as in the Wall Street bailout. For people with household incomes of over about $90,000, they are just out of luck. No tax payer help for them. It isn’t unusual for household income to exceed $90,000 these days, with mom & pop both working. I do not want my tax dollars funding billionaire insurance company executives. The insurance companies are the problem, not the solution. If we are going to do healthcare, let’s have Medicare single payer for all Americans. There is a common good; it is about public education, health care, taking care of the least among us, roads and infrastructure so we can grow economically, and public safety. This health care bill doesn’t enhance that ideal at all, it is just more dysfunction in the health care arena, unfortunately at the taxpayers’ expense.