Sicker and sicker, poorer and poorer, BUT, in a perpetual state of "hope".
Does that describe you? Well, why are you accepting that it wont be changed by Democrats? Why are you accepting that they will ruin our chance at reform by giving the next two elections to the GOP to keep healthcare prices high?
Our first goal should be changing, for good, this increasingly obvious Achilles heel of the politicians faked "health reform", even though it will require their corporate sponsors making sacrifices, and one small industry of 450,000 being replaced by a national infrastructure that would end the job lock and allow millions of businesses to hire again.
Hundreds of thousands more Americans do not need to die.
We don't have to wait four years for minor, incremental change tied to preservation of the ability to increase prices.
Politicians can say no.
You can say no.
They do not have to be zombies in some bad movie, they don't need to cling to their old dysfunctional, criminally expensive, incredibly wasteful insurance centric system, a global pariah with its Uniquely American™ circular logic of trying to justifying its OWN expense by increasing our costs.
Are we having a insurer greed crisis? Yes.
Is it necessary? No. Insurance isn't necessary.
What we need is a national plan that unifies this nation that does not waste half of every non-government healthcare dollar spent on insurers!
Here are some more recent stories on the insurers.
Health insurers take heat for rise in profits
The five biggest companies covered 2.7 million fewer people last year but earned 56% more (LA Times)
Regulating Health Care Part One
Regulating Health Care, Part II: Anthem Blue Cross exposes the holes in rate regulation
Reform, meet Anthem Blue Cross (LA Times)
Anthem's parent company defends health insurance rate hike (LA Times)
.....Other stories of interest......
IS Nancy Pelosi Finally admitting that the Obama administration is not proceeding in good faith? That he doesn't have a plan so much as a anti-plan. One thats designed to fail? I hope so. Its been obvious for a long time.
Also, the story below is very important if the FEHB is to be used as a framework for an insurance plan of last resort after 2014, for those who can still afford individual insurance in the future. They are changing the way they pay for Rx drugs in a way which will make many people who were hoping for change after 2014 unable to afford prescriptions they need. This is so they can avoid real cost reform.
Congress Considering Risky Changes to Federal Employees' Health Benefits