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.
About Ginger
About me...let's see...
I guess I'm just another tree-huggin', commie, Cheetos-eating, pajama-wearing, unemployed blogger.
I'm anxious and vainly optimistic about where the country is headed, and openly dreaded the day Bush ever came into political office...I''m not happy about having a party filled with spineless "oh we need to cherish the blue dog dems" ...but I'm also glad that we are finally moving away from the cliff we were all teetering on for the past decade.
What bothers me most is the fact that too few people today understand how incredibly dangerous our government has become or how unreliable and weak our news sources are. I'm not just talking about Fox. I'm talking about the bulk of the mainstream media. It's not liberal - and it's certainly not fair or balanced. My kind of news reporting was the kind I grew up in the 70s, and clearly remember a time when the so-called liberal media was all about reporting the cold, hard facts, filled with investigative journalism, and anchors or reporters who refused to do fluff pieces - like cats stuck in trees, water-skiing squirrels, and Darwin-award-winning idiots who would do anything to make themselves into a news story. Being a reporter meant something more noble than a fat paycheck. You did your job because you wanted to get the truth out there. Now? You're mostly smeared or called a tin-foiled-hat-wearing lunatic of you find out - and expose - any kind of government or corporate corruption.
The upside of today's kind of media? Bloggers are a new breed of journalists - ready to hit the streets...err digital webspace... and have helped get a president elected, and a fascist dictatorship out of power.
