Reforming Corporate Masters

Instead of the debate being about reforming “health care”, it should be about an investigation into reforming the health insurance companies, and the reason it isn‘t is because of the insurance company’s control of the politicians and have turned the issue.

The insurance companies make billions because they are allowed to operate using unfair, discriminatory and exclusionary business practices.

We have some of the best medicine in the world, but what good is it if we can’t avail ourselves of it? How many women don’t have mammograms because they can’t afford it? Now, if it’s routine it’s not covered by the health insurance. So we’re paying insurance premiums and paying for the tests. It’s a win-win situation for the insurance companies and a losing situation for the citizens. They have plenty more tricks aimed at denying all claims which in turn allow them to keep the premiums we pay, while refusing to reimburse the doctor. It’s only a matter of time before we run out of doctors. Who wants to practice medicine under a corporate master?

Senator Charles Grassley is against a national health plan that would compete with private insurance companies because government would “take over the market”, which would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad. The insurance companies have already “taken over the market” and taken over our politicians, they just don’t publicly admit it.

The July 15 issue of the Washington Spectator reports seven of the top ten political donors to Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, are health insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Companies including Schering-Plough, Amgen, Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Healthy competition is necessary to a healthy economy. Maybe that’s why our economy is so sickly, because there’s no competition in either the consumer market, or in our political elections. In the health insurance field, there’s even less competition and no rules. The only ones making up the rules are the insurance companies; and they’re making them up for their own benefit as they go along., and it’s working. Insurance companies control our health care and our politicians.

In America it used to be a two way street, now it’s a one way street with all the advantages money can buy, but especially the cash, flowing to the health insurance companies.