America has laws that prevent discrimination. We have signs in front of parking spaces and wheelchair ramps beside entrances of businesses and Government buildings to allow access to those structures by those that are disabled.

The laws we have to prevent discrimination  were hard fought for changes that without, would have prevented minorities from sharing the rights and privileges enjoyed by most Americans.

Then why are some in the GOP and their supporters advocating the discriminatory practices of insurance companies by suggesting it's all right to drop those who become ill or not insure those with pre-existing conditions?

Throughout this country's history, there have been those that have fought against the rights of the minorities. Slavery was once thought to be all right by those wealthy plantation owners and Southern politicians who fought adamantly against the abolition of slavery. We know now that this position was wrong.

Again, with the immoral practice of rescission and discrimination by insurance companies, we must fight  for what is right. This Health Care Reform Bill must become law by being passed to prevent this discriminatory practice.

There are those that argue that it's not profitable for insurance companies to insure those with illness. I will suggest that it was not profitable for Southern plantation owners to have to pay slaves a wage to do what they once did for these owners for free.

Whether something is deemed profitable, doesn't change the fact, that slavery was clearly wrong as is rescission for insurance companies. There are many things that are profitable that society doesn't allow because it is clearly wrong- ethically and morally.

The main focus of this Health Care Reform Bill is to end the immoral practices of insurance companies-  rescission and not insuring those with pre-existing conditions. We must again stand up against those that support these immoral beliefs.

This bill will not prevent these immoral practices unless it become a law by passing Congress. I urge those in favor of what's just to call your representative. I wrote Congressman Bill Owens this morning again from the 23RD District of Upstate NY.

What do you think?