Bryan W. Alaspa 1Not backing down
August 18th 2009 13:29
I do hope that the rumors are not true. Right now the rumors are circulating that the President and the Democrats are going to back down on a public option for health care. This brings a reasonable question: so what would be the point of the healthcare legislation? If you don’t bring healthcare to the people who need it – those who cannot afford it – then what is the point?
Right now the word “co-ops” keeps coming up. I spent time yesterday trying to find out how these co-ops would work. So far there is less information on that than there is about the public healthcare option. It involves a group of people getting together and trying to unite to negotiate health coverage from insurance companies. It makes no sense and, if you aren’t able to get together somewhere around 500,000 people in your particular co-op you probably wouldn’t do much to negotiate with insurance companies.
I heard one man, this past weekend, actually suggest that the United States of America had the best healthcare system in the world. This is obviously a man with money and some ridiculous health insurance plan from some employer. So, for him, it’s easy to get healthcare. You just present your card and then let the trust fund or the huge bank account take care of the rest of it.
The story you hear is that people can get healthcare. This is true. No hospital can legally turn anyone away just because they do not have insurance. This does not get shots for your kids, of course. You can’t really go to an emergency room for your kidney dialysis or regular check-ups. Even if you do have a serious accident or illness and got to an emergency room, then you can’t pay for it. What did this genius suggest? Well, let’s do “something” to help those people. What that “something” was is beyond me.
It boggles my mind how much conservatives believe in big business. They seem to live in some other world where multi-millionaire CEOs actually give a rats ass about the people who work for them or the rest of the world in general. They seem to believe that if you really do give breaks to the people at the very top of the ladder it somehow results in things sprinkling down to the rest of us like manna from heaven. This is not how the world works.
As one politician put it, putting the insurance companies in charge of reforming health insurance is like making a pyromaniac the fire chief. The idea of co-ops probably has them salivating like dogs who have heard the dinner bell. They are already wondering how they can raise prices, cheat the people and screw over those who cannot afford their insurance. Insurance companies do not want poor people on their plans. Poor people are sick more often and they cost a lot of money. If any of them actually cared, they would already have plans for the poor in place, but they don’t. No, they’re too busy looking for ways to take insurance away from people with chronic or terminal illnesses.
Big business cares only about itself and making more money. It doesn’t care about you. It never has. It never will. Stay strong and push through what’s right.
Right now the word “co-ops” keeps coming up. I spent time yesterday trying to find out how these co-ops would work. So far there is less information on that than there is about the public healthcare option. It involves a group of people getting together and trying to unite to negotiate health coverage from insurance companies. It makes no sense and, if you aren’t able to get together somewhere around 500,000 people in your particular co-op you probably wouldn’t do much to negotiate with insurance companies.
I heard one man, this past weekend, actually suggest that the United States of America had the best healthcare system in the world. This is obviously a man with money and some ridiculous health insurance plan from some employer. So, for him, it’s easy to get healthcare. You just present your card and then let the trust fund or the huge bank account take care of the rest of it.
The story you hear is that people can get healthcare. This is true. No hospital can legally turn anyone away just because they do not have insurance. This does not get shots for your kids, of course. You can’t really go to an emergency room for your kidney dialysis or regular check-ups. Even if you do have a serious accident or illness and got to an emergency room, then you can’t pay for it. What did this genius suggest? Well, let’s do “something” to help those people. What that “something” was is beyond me.
It boggles my mind how much conservatives believe in big business. They seem to live in some other world where multi-millionaire CEOs actually give a rats ass about the people who work for them or the rest of the world in general. They seem to believe that if you really do give breaks to the people at the very top of the ladder it somehow results in things sprinkling down to the rest of us like manna from heaven. This is not how the world works.
As one politician put it, putting the insurance companies in charge of reforming health insurance is like making a pyromaniac the fire chief. The idea of co-ops probably has them salivating like dogs who have heard the dinner bell. They are already wondering how they can raise prices, cheat the people and screw over those who cannot afford their insurance. Insurance companies do not want poor people on their plans. Poor people are sick more often and they cost a lot of money. If any of them actually cared, they would already have plans for the poor in place, but they don’t. No, they’re too busy looking for ways to take insurance away from people with chronic or terminal illnesses.
Big business cares only about itself and making more money. It doesn’t care about you. It never has. It never will. Stay strong and push through what’s right.
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