Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

For those who shudder at the thought of a public health care option...who want no part of government running their health care...please sign up to give up your medicare coverage. 

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Not interested?  I didn't think so.  For the life of me, I don't understand the fear out there.

Comments

[Paz]

good point about the medicare coverage.

paz

[sandy]

however my medicare coverage is not that good, and I pay for it- but it's better than nothing. glitches everywhere.

[Rob]

I'm all for health care reform. The biggest scam ever pulled on us was the HMO and health care as an employer benefit.

I don't fear this plan, I view it as business as usual. We have witnessed the inefficiency of our government; social security will soon be bankrupt, medicare will soon be bankrupt. We bailed out the banking industry with a bill that provided bonuses for the CEO's; now bailouts for the auto industry.

Yet those who are unemployed through no fault of their own and have used up their unemployment extensions, are left in the dark and cold, loosing their homes as this government creates a cash for clunkers program. Can you say out of touch?

The pharmaceutical industry is behind this plan by no surprise as they have the most to gain from this plan. Big Pharmaceutical is to Obama as Big Oil was to Bush. Follow the money trail to the 35,000 lobbyists in D.C.

[Chris]

While I am not against the idea of health care reform, I just wish that all sides of this debate would stick to the facts....which are difficult to discern. Doing all of that yelling and screaming at the community forums really doesn't much good, and in fact, sort of makes them look a bit crazy.

[Lisa's Chaos]

I don't know anything about what's going on, been to busy to listen, but I know my mom fears it because there are things that would not be covered, like heart problems, for people over 50. But she's just hearing things too. Dunno.

[Jeff]

It's all about the money. I gave up on the topic on my blog in May, but here is what Chris Hedges has to say and I think he is spot on:

http://www.alternet.org/rights/141860/inside_story_on_town_hall_riots%3A_right-wing_shock_troops_do_corporate_america%27s_dirty_work/

It's all about the money.

[Debi Kelly Van Cleave]

That's not true what Lisa's Chaos's mom thinks--that things wouldn't be covered like heart problems. It's a crying shame that so many people are falling for this crap. Well-funded special interest groups like the Lewin Group, a subsidiary of insurance giant United Health Care, are brainwashing people by putting tons of money into a campaign to cause reform to fail. It's in their best interests to make it fail. Like Jeff said, it's all about money. My mother is being denied health care right now even though she has three health insurances! She has leukemia and they keep kicking her out of the hospital the minute she sits up in bed. One of her medications, ONE, costs her $4300 a month, after the insurances pay their share! My parents are almost through their entire life savings. Folks better hope they don't get seriously sick if this reform doesn't pass. Every American needs access to affordable medical care without going bankrupt and if believing that means I'm a socialist, then so be it. It's morally right.

[June]

I totally agree. Of late I fear the bill that gets passed will be so compromised that it'll not resolve the problems. And then, those who have fought against reform will use its ineffectiveness to say "I told you so". Trying to get the other side on board used to be a noble...and wise...goal, but in today's toxic political atmosphere, I'm beginning to wish Obama had just rammed single payer down our throats.