Mandating Millions

In his speech of September 9^th, the President said citizens without health insurance are being irresponsible, and he is going to end that practice.

Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts said at a Town Meeting that taxpayers are paying millions for people without health insurance.

Not only is the federal government going to mandate that we all have health insurance, they’re laying the blame for the high cost of insurance on the uninsured.

A few days after the president’s speech on health care, insurance companies’ stocks were up. If everyone is so worried about health insurance reform putting insurance companies out of business, why have their stocks risen? And please explain how a ‘for profit’ industry can morally control expensive life or death medical treatments?

The insurance companies control the industry and Washington by buying votes. They gave Senator Grassley over one million dollars; Olympia Snowe received a life time take of over nine hundred thousand, and Senator Max Baucus over three million dollars, Baucus himself is obliging them, as his bill includes the insurance mandate that all citizens must have health insurance.

In Massachusetts, health insurance premiums are due to rise ten percent next year, with a five to seven percent increase across the rest of the country. No wonder their stocks are up, they’ll be getting all those new billions in premiums paid to the insurance companies from the 30 million or so that presently cannot afford the high cost of health insurance premiums, millions of new customers they can cheat by cutting their medical coverage while overcharging them with outrageous premiums.

We are not witnessing health insurance reform, we’re witnessing a give away of our money to the health insurance companies.

To say this is Health Care Reform is another subterfuge being played out on the American people, the war cry instead should be Health Insurance Reform!