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HEALTH CARE WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE
By Dennis Kucinich (about the author)
For OpEdNews: Dennis Kucinich - Writer
Health care reform is now a private option: WHICH FOR PROFIT INSURANCE
COMPANY DO YOU WANT? You have to choose. And you have to pay. If you
have a low income, under HR3200 government will subsidize the private
insurance companies and you will still have to pay premiums, co-pays
and deductibles.
The Administration plan requires that everyone must have health
insurance, so it is delivering tens of millions of new "customers" to
the insurance companies. Health care? Not really. Insurance care!
Absolutely. Cost controls? No chance.
You will next hear talk about
"co-ops." The truth is that insurance company campaign contributions
have co-opted the public interest.
I
need your help to spread the word and rally the nation around true
health care reform which covers everyone and maintains fiscal integrity
without breaking our nation's bank! Your contribution will
empower our efforts to continue to fight for the single-payer,
not-for-profit health care bill, HR676 "Medicare for All," which I
co-authored with Rep. John Conyers. The bill now has 85 sponsors in the
House.
The hotly-debated HR3200, the so-called
"health care reform" bill, is nothing less than corporate welfare in
the guise of social welfare and reform. It is a convoluted mess. The
real debate which we should be having is not occurring.
Removing the "public option" from a public bill paid for by public money is not in the public interest.
What is left is a "private option" paid for with public money. Why
should public money be spent on a private option which does not
guarantee 100% coverage nor have any cost controls? A true public
option would provide 30% savings immediately which would then cover the
1/3rd of the population who presently have no health care.
Unfortunately, under HR3200, the
Government is choosing winners and losers in the private sector;
proposing to spend public funds on subsidizing insurance companies who
make money not providing health care. This process will insure only the
expansion of profits. Gone is the debate over cost.
As a result of current
negotiations, the Medicare Part D rip-off will continue for another
decade, further fleecing senior citizens. Drug importation has been
dropped, so no inexpensive drugs can be accessed from other nations.
Instead we are told the pharmaceutical
companies will accept a 2% cut in the growth rate of their profits -
they call this cost control!
If the matter were not so
serious, it would be farcical: The executive branch pretends that the
proposed health care reforms are something they are not. The
legislation is being attacked for something it is not. Congressional
leadership and the White House defend the legislation, pretending it
actually is the very proposal that is being attacked. But it is not.
A commonsense government health care
reform policy would insure that every single American has full access
to health care by expanding Medicare to cover everyone under a Single
Payer System. We are already paying for a universal standard of care,
it is just we are not getting it.
I need
your help to spread the word and rally the nation around true health
care reform which covers everyone and maintains fiscal integrity
without subsidizing insurance and pharmaceutical companies and breaking
our nation's bank!
My voice in Congress will continue to challenge
the special interests who do not want "single-payer" to succeed. I need
you to join me in combating the special and corporate interests who
spend millions to try to win this Congressional seat. With your help WE
will win again. With your help I will continue to represent your
concerns, be YOUR VOICE in the United States Congress, and be the voice
for health care for all Americans!
With your help, we can accomplish ANYTHING in America. Persistence,
dedication, truth and courage will lead the way and win out in the end.Facebook
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