Health Care
by
David Schlecht
It’s time to get serious about national health care. A couple thoughts:
- Just say NO to co-ops. They can never compete with national insurance agencies. Without the competition, there’s no need for the insurance agencies to improve or to stop their killing for profit.
- Allow everyone to buy into Medicare if they want to. Yes, it’s already run by the government and run with a 3% overhead. United Health just paid their CEO, Dollar Bill McGuire, $1.7 Billion. Can’t beat that for waste. How many people had to die to pay for that?
- Call your representatives and the White House today and call often.
I’ve heard that most national insurance companies have a 25-50% overhead in order to pay their execs millions and millions of dollars. Medicare is 3%.
Medicare or even ObamaCare won’t turn people away to die just for profit. Have you seen SickForProfit.com?
A memo leaked from the Coal industry indicates that they intend to piggy back on the astro turf corporations behind the tea baggers and the health care opponents.
Check out the lies coming from the Republicans. It’s amazing that they are so disingenuous, deceptive, dishonest. The lies are all disproved at media matters: http://mediamatters.org/research/200908200002
MYTH 1: There is no health care crisis
MYTH 2: Health care reform will impose rationing
MYTH 3: Health care reform provides for euthanasia, “death panel”
MYTH 4: Health care reform legislation will cover undocumented immigrants
MYTH 5: Health care reform will raise your taxes
MYTH 6: Health proposals would tax all small businesses
MYTH 7: Health care reform would add $1 trillion-plus to deficit
MYTH 8: House bill would ban private individual insurance
MYTH 9: Obama said he didn’t read House bill
MYTH 10: Co-ops are an adequate substitute for a public option
MYTH 11: Obama is pushing a system like the U.K. and Canada
MYTH 12: Obama, Dems pushing “socialized medicine”
MYTH 13: Prominent opponents of health care reform are credible
MYTH 14: Government can’t run a health care program