Insurance companies have been allowed to consolidate and monopolize the market allowing them to fix prices and eliminate competition across the country, this is why so many people lack health insurance. To solve the health insurance debacle the giant insurance corporations need to be busted up. Perhaps that’s the avenue you should be investigating rather than looking for cuts in Medicare.
Thomas Jefferson believed one of the government’s roles in society was to prevent corporations from taking the bread out of the mouth of the laborer who has earned it. As a representative of the people, you have failed that role. First you let the banks steal half the value of my home, then you let the corporations steal the value of my labor, now you've let the insurance compnaies steal the value of my life.
A large part of the problem today is that we measure value in dollars only. As long as you’re a health insurance premium paying consumer you have value. But when you become sick, injured or fatally ill and the insurance companies have to spend money on you, (as in when you need home health care), that’s when we become liabilities, we lose value. How can a ‘for profit’ corporation interested only in cutting costs for the ‘bottom line’ decide how much medical care a person gets? There is something ethically and morally wrong going on here.
We give banks seventeen trillion and we’ll spend three trillion on war in Afghanistan alone, not even counting the trillions in Iraq, but we don’t have 42 billion for Americans. Surely you can see there’s something wrong with this picture Senator. Andrew Jackson said one man with courage makes a majority. Where is that one man today?
Sincerely,
Nancy T. Lindsay
Registered Voter
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