Big Brother Insurance

Many are saying this government funded health insurance plan is the first step to nationalized medicine with a socialist bent. It’s not socialism at all, but Big Brother.

The Democratic House plan is to mandate that all citizens have medical insurance and the insurance companies are going to drop the pre-existing clause. This is what the insurance companies want, they’ve already said as much.

The Democratic House plan includes new taxes on health insurance benefits (ha what benefits), taxes on sugared drinks and alcohol. Not only will we continue to pay exorbitant prices for medical insurance, if this plan passes we’ll all be paying more of our taxes into the insurance companies. This is not socialism but oligarchy.

Thomas Jefferson believed one role of government was to prevent corporations from “taking the bread out of the mouth of labor who has earned it”.

It’s up to the government to ensure healthy competition amongst these insurance companies and to prevent them from turning medical insurance into industrialized mega-corporations; consolidation of too much market share leads to exploitation, which is why the price of health insurance is too high and prohibitive to so many.

Supposedly this government funded plan is intended to promote competition amongst insurance companies to bring down the cost of health insurance. Healthy competition keeps prices low. We don’t have healthy competition and that’s why our economy is so sick and insurance premiums too high.

Why is it that the only way we can get out from under the merciless control insurance companies have over us is by paying more?

In addition to the sinfully extreme cost of medical insurance Americans are forced to pay now, the American taxpayer will be forced to pay even higher premiums and drug costs. Why does an inhaler in Canada cost $12 a month while the very same inhaler costs $160 a month in the US?

The insurance companies are not going to lose money, no matter what plan the federal government creates. As a matter of fact, they’ll be making more money and we still won’t see equality in health insurance; and that‘s the plan of the corporate crooks, the minority who own our government, Big Brother, there‘s no socialism about it.

　

　

Health Care or Profit Care?

According to a report on the News Hour, health insurance companies came out and said if the federal government mandated all citizens have health insurance, they’d drop the pre-existing clause; a pre-existing clause is one where people with pre-existing conditions are unable to obtain health insurance or have to pay a higher premium for scant coverage.

Evidently we are not all equal when it comes to health insurance, only the healthy can have insurance, all those with sickness and injuries need not apply.

During his campaign the president said he was not in favor of mandating all citizens have health insurance, now the president is taking it under consideration. The change in the president’s stance could mean one of two things-first step to nationalizing health insurance is to make sure all have health insurance or the president may be leaning towards the insurance company’s desires.

We need to stop being hysterical and understand that today all political issues are approached on a purely emotional level.

In the earlier part of the twentieth century Edward Bernays the nephew of Sigmund Freud was instrumental in the pioneering of mass marketing. During his study Bernays said if you understand the group mind it is possible to manipulate and control people’s desires without them even knowing it.

Demagoguery is controlling people politically through emotions, that’s what the capitalist crooks and their political puppets are doing and we don’t even know it.

You can bet the insurance companies approach all aspects of their business in a cold hearted calculating way and they don’t let emotions interfere with their decisions as to who lives and who dies.

Kings and heads of state used to come to the US for treatments and operations because we had the best in the world. What happened? The capitalist crooks have seized medicine for profits.

Taxing for Transportation

Opportunity is knocking, nationwide transportation reform is banging on the door.

With the decimation of the manufacturing industry and the desperate need to end our dependence on oil, an obvious choice would seem to be the complete overhaul of the nation’s mass public transportation system to be more efficient, convenient and create more lasting jobs.

Unfortunately this choice doesn’t seem as obvious to this administration pumping billions into GM who will eventually make small cars the public wants. Far cry from better public transportation.

Why don’t we don’t see more Democrats seizing the moment to bring this issue to the forefront? And why isn’t reduction on foreign oil more urgent to our politicians?

With Orwellian double speak we’re told we’re addicted to oil. Well excuse me for living and not to worry, just as soon as I cure my addiction to food, then I’ll move on to my oil addiction.

Modern day life depends on oil and they’ve made it that way. The USA put a man on the moon and created the Internet. Is there any reason why we can’t have and maintain better public transportation? Necessity being the mother of invention has been a cornerstone of development in our nation; whatever happened to it?

The answer to all these questions is that Big Oil is in control; this is why the crucial issue of oil dependence is not being addressed or mentioned.

FDR said you couldn’t do anything with the Oil companies and you couldn’t do anything without the Oil companies. During FDR’s time there were hundreds of oil companies, today they’ve been concentrated so that there are just seven or eight, and we can do even less with them.

As of the last week in May, the national price average for a gallon of gasoline is two dollars and fifty cents. This price has been rising as the summer has been approaching. The oil companies are putting more barrels of oil into reserve so there’s less oil for sale.

The only transportation reforms in Massachusetts our politicians can come up with are higher taxes on gasoline and toll roads. The governor wanted to install chips in our inspection stickers to track the number of miles we drive so they can send us a bill for our road usage.

Using Orwellian double speak, the politicians tell us higher gas tax means we’ll drive less and reduce our oil consumption. This places the blame and burden of oil dependence on the backs of ordinary American citizens and not at the door step of the capitalist crooks in Big Oil along with their paid off puppet politicians where it belongs.

Government Motors Keeps On Truckin'

The Treasury Department along with the auto task force is calling the shots at GM so that we the tax payer now own about seventy percent of “Government Motors“.

The leader of this auto task force Steve Rattner is a hedge fund operator whose firm, according to an article in the Nation magazine is “deep in a pension-fund bribery scandal“. Isn’t that nice, some of the larger bond holders in GM are pension-funds.

We’re giving GM billions, up to fifty billion by some estimates and how do they thank us? By shipping jobs to China and Mexico.

GM was going manufacture a small compact car in China and then ship them back to the US for sale. The UAW kept up the pressure to keep this from happening and now part of the bail out plan includes GM manufacturing a compact car here in America.

Interviewed on the Newshour Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was asked if he was going to pressure GM not to ship jobs to Mexico, which the Secretary refused to answer, stating it is important to remember that they’re restructuring GM to come out as a viable company in the future without government control. This is their story; government take over to restructure, creating a more viable company providing American jobs in the future, even the president’s press secretary recites this same line.

Why are these people calling the shots at GM? Why isn’t our government demanding GM keep jobs in this country? Why doesn’t the tax payer deserve a vote on how this bail out is handled or even allowed to occur for that matter.

It was Steve Rattner who fired Rick Wagoner the CEO of GM. If that doesn’t’ beat all, a corporate crook firing a corporate crook. As seventy percent owners in this new and improved GM corporation we should do some firing of our own. First lets fire whoever is responsible for the restructuring plan which included shipping jobs to China, South Korea, Japan and Mexico.