This isn’t Rocket Science – People Need Affordable Healthcare

What would your response be if you walked into your neighborhood pharmacy and the price of aspirin shot up to $150 a bottle? If you’re lucky enough to have the means – because you’re working or having money to spare, you’d pay for it.

But if you’re like half of America right now: You’d simply try to find an alternative or go without the aspirin.

Insurance companies are bilking the healthiest Americans out of their life savings – and kicking the poor and the sick to the curb by denying them coverage.

Why we need health care reform is not rocket science.

Yet, it becomes a heartless, selfish, idiotic argument when you try to live in denial of that fact.

We keep hearing arguments in favor of protecting insurance companies from a “government takeover”.

There is absolutely NO government takeover being proposed. Americans are simply begging for rules to be put in place that prevent insurance companies from acting like a-holes.

It’s that simple.

Here are a few rules (regulations) that have been suggested:

Don’t drop coverage for the sick.

Don’t drop people because of pre-existing conditions.

Don’t raise rates every year by more than 2 to 5% (instead of 39%).

Don’t create high deductibles as an alternative to paying a slightly lower premium.

Don’t force consumers to pay outrageous prices for medicine, tests and therapy.

Don’t discriminate against patients because they are gay, have aids, or had an abortion.

And for goodness sakes, stop donating money to politicians – and stop putting out false or misleading ads.

People are DYING because we don’t have any rules that look like these.