Health Care Reform Written by Health Insurance Companies

Any bill that expands private insurers monopoly over health care and then makes it mandatory for millions of taxpayer to join, is not real health-care reform. Real reform would insert competition into insurance markets, force insurers to cut unnecessary administrative expenses and spend health-care dollars caring for people. Real reform would significantly lower costs, improve delivery, and give all Americans a meaningful choice of coverage. The current Senate bill accomplishes none of these.

The bill was supposed to give Americans choices about what kind of system they wanted to enroll in. Instead, it fines Americans if they do not sign up with an insurance company, which spends 30 percent of premium dollars on CEO salaries. Few Americans will see any benefit until 2014, by which time premiums are likely to have doubled. In short, the winners in this bill are insurance companies; the American taxpayer is about to be fleeced with a bailout in a situation that dwarfs even what happened at AIG.

            I support health care reform, but passing a bill for the sake of passing one is the wrong choice. Submit the bill in it’s original form, vote on it, publish the voting record in every news outlet in America. Then let the voting public decide if they still want to continue to elect the Party of No as their representatives. If that’s what the majority decides then give’em what they want. Cut funding for hospitals and clinics in areas where hospitals can’t support them selves. Let the free enterprise system determine where medical facilities are built. Stop funding research, Medicaid, Medicare and prescription drugs. Let the market decide how to provide these services and at what cost. Seems to me some argue health care reform is an intrusion into their private lives. If that’s the majority opinion then give’em what they want. Get government completely out.