Real Solutions for Real Health Care: VOTE FOR THE GRAYSON BILL, OR, Go the Way of the World of Finance: BROKE!
Written by Jim McGrath Saturday, 13 March 2010 12:20
GENIUS IS SIMPLICITY! Congressman Grayson (D- FL) is offering the simplest, easiest and perhaps most effective way to solve the burgeoning health care crisis: ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO BUY INTO MEDICARE! Grayson make sense. Congress should vote on it as an inclusion to the reconcilation bill, and if it passes, all the better. GRAYSON IS RIGHT! WE NEED TO GIVE PEOPLE THE CHOICE. He tells it like it is:
"And to the right-wing loons who call it socialism, we say, 'if you want to be a slave to the insurance companies, that's fine. If you want 30% of your premiums to go to 'administrative costs' and billion-dollar bonuses for insurance CEOs who figure out new and creative ways to deny you the care you need to stay healthy and alive, that's fine. But don't you try to dictate to me that I can't have a public option!' "
"This simple four-page bill lets any American buy into Medicare at cost. You want it, you pay for it, you're in. It adds nothing to the deficit; you pay what it costs.
Let's face it. Health insurance companies charge as much money as possible, and they provide as little care as possible. The difference is called profit. You can't blame them for it; that's what a corporation does. Birds got to fly, fish got to swim, health insurers got to rip you off. And if you get really expensive, they've got to pull the plug on you. So for those of us who would like to stay alive, we need a public option.
In many areas of the country, one or two insurers have over 80% of the market. They can charge anything they want. And when you get sick, they can flip the bird at you. So we need a public option.
And they face no real competition because it costs billions of dollars just to set up a national health care network. In fact, the only one that's nationwide is . . . Medicare. And we limit that to one-eight of the population."
For the full story, see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-alan-grayson/hr-4789-the-public-option_b_496977.html
The Grayson bill is the SIMPLEST AND EASIEST WAY TO GET INCLUSION AND DEFRAY COSTS.
WHY? BECAUSE WE WILL NEED ANYTHING FROM A PUBLIC OPTION TO A SINGLE PAYER, TO AN ACTUAL MASSIVE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE, NOT TOO MANY YEARS FROM NOW -- AS COSTS CONTINUE TO PROLIFERATE. AN ESTIMATED 50 PERCENT, HALF OF OUR GDP, WILL BE SPENT ON HEALTH CARE. HALF OF ALL OUR PRODUCTIVITY! LIKE WE NOW HAVE THE SEMI-NATIONALIZATION OF THE BANKS: THE EXCESSES IN THE SYSTEM, UNCHECKED BY, GASP, GOVERNMENT, LEAD TO THE NEED FOR MASSIVE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION AND HELP. DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO TAKE A LITTLE MEDICINE NOW INSTEAD OF A MAJOR OPERATION LATER?
IN SUM, DIDN'T THEY LEARN ANYTHING FROM THE FINANCIAL CRISIS? Essentially, that government IS the cop on the beat. What can help against power that corrupts absolutely? It is the only thing that has enough power to rein them in when (it should be BEFORE, idiots) they ruin (actually continue to ruin) the country.
IN THE LATEST, MOST TOPSY TURVY DEVELOPMENT, THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP SEEMS TO BE ABANDONING WHAT THEY HAVE ALWAYS FOUGHT FOR -- national health care -- ALL FOR A VICTORY, OR WORSE, ALSO TO CATER TO THE LOBBYISTS. The Huffington Post reports that Pelosi said, "I'm not having the Senate, which didn't have a public option in its bill, put any of that on our doorstep," she said. "It did not prevail. What we will have in reconciliation will be something that is agreed upon, House and Senate, that they can pass and we can pass... It isn't in there because they don't have the votes."
HOWEVER, Congressmen like Grayson and Senators like Sanders and others (now 41 senators and counting) are not giving up. Many disagree and say they do have the votes, and the leadership and White House are not supporting it. WE DO. WE SAY, BE A PATRIOT AND BUCK THE LEADERSHIP IF THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING, BY VOTING FOR GRAYSON'S BILL.
Then, if it passes, watch all these tea party members buy in...because they won't be able to afford private insurance!
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