The Great Public Option Health
Care Rip-Off We Are Being Screwed By Politicians And Wealthy Corporate
Institutions NewsFocus: Congressional Representatives
Fighting Against The Health Care Public Option Should Give Up Their
Government Paid Health Insurance (They Get
It For Life) NewsFocus, by Tim Watts 060609 Americans should be outraged by the fiasco known as
health care reform. First off, the best plan for the people is
hands down HR-676, the Conyers-Kucinich plan. It is the only
not-for-profit health care plan out there. With over 33% of
health care going to the health insurance industry, it is
the one plan capable of single handedly bringing down the
exorbitant price of health care.
What is most galling in this endeavor is the
greed and politicization that has taken over, with no regard for
the initial concept of caring for the people. At this point the
Republican Congress and conservative blue-dog Democrats have
opted to side with the multi-trillion dollar insurance industry,
rather than giving any substantive regard to their constituents.
When you hear Congress members remark that a government backed
public-option would be too attractive and hurt the private
insurance industry, you know their priorities are not in our
best interests to begin with. Most glaring of all, where is any
mention of a single payer government paid for plan?
If the private insurance companies cannot compete
with a government backed plan, then perhaps they need to do what
the common man is forced to do when they lose their job, look
for new work. Who are we trying to help here, the
ultra-wealthy insurance industry or the American people?
It's starting to appear as if a public-option, as
the people would like it, has never really been a serious
consideration on the table. Or are they just trying to get us to
beg for something they are feigning a fight over? What it's starting to look like is a
public scam. A public-option that includes a single payer
plan (HR 676) is the best choice. The worse thing that could happen for the people is
that insurance would become mandatory for all, with no
government paid public health insurance. This would simply create more customers
and create gazillions in new revenue for the health insurance
industry. This would not be acceptable for the people and has
the opportunity to become the biggest fleecing of America,
dwarfing the oil extortion of the recent Bush administration.
The insurance industry has been spending over a
million dollars per day to keep us from getting government
subsidized health care insurance. That should be the first
tip-off that the game is rigged against us. The Republican party
and the conservative blue-dog Democrats have been bought and paid for by
accepting
campaign money from the insurance industry.
This in itself is a huge conflict of interest which should be
criminally prosecutable.
Several key GOP leaders who have fought hard against the Obama health care reform are among the largest
recipients of cash from the insurance industry. Those accepting
the most in the Senate include
John McCain (R-Ariz.), with $546,000 and Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), with $425,000. In the House,
$257,000 of cash went to Minority Leader
John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and $249,000 in contributions went
to the Minority Whip,
Eric Cantor (R-Va.). Another outspoken critic is death panel
pusher Charles Grassley (R-IA) one of the Senate's top
fundraisers from medical, pharmaceutical and health insurance
interests. It's a lot easier to understand their positions in
light of these revelations. Hopefully Americans will take note.
Another impetus for the GOP to fight against the
health reform bill is that they do not want to see the
Democratic party provide Americans with something they have
never ever attempted to provide on their own. They know that the
writing is on the wall for them if the left can provide
something so beneficial to American families. Another incentive
for the Republican right would be for them to politically wound
a popular Democratic President, making themselves look a little
better than the recent beatings of the last two major elections.
With all of the political downside against them,
the GOP has taken to lying to the public about the plan, making
false accusations of death panels and fear mongering over steps
towards the socialization of America, not to mention encouraging
disruption of town hall meetings with threats of violence. The
Republican right is gambling though that Americans will miss
their adversarial meddling and not seek vengeance in the next
midterm elections. Let's hope the GOP miscalculated and that the people are paying close
attention to the real adversaries against us all.
The stakes are indeed high in the great health
insurance reform of America. The only way the public will win is
if they quit buying into false information from the right and
fight instead for what is best for all of us. If the people give
in without a struggle, then a true government subsidized health
care option for all will be lost, possibly forever.
Call your elected representative and fight for
your right to real health care reform, before it's too late. HR
676 is the best plan for all Americans.
Kucinich responds to Obama's health care address Raw Story -
Sep 10, 2009
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was interviewed by Jack Rice of Talk
Radio/Talk Media News Service. Kucinich, who has been a leading proponent of a
single-payer ...
Health Care Reform on the Homestretch Progressive.org -
Ruth Conniff - 091509
The so-called Kucinich Amendment--HR 676, the "Medicare for All" bill, sponsored
by Representatives Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers, is supposed to come to ...
Health Care Reform Made
Easy For FOX Viewers
Hopefully this explains the necessity of public
health care to the FOX news crowd.
We Are Being Steered To A Plan Benefiting The
Insurance Industry Why No Mention of HR-676, The Single-Payer Option? (Universal Health Care) NewsFocus, by Tim Watts 100809 With the health care debate raging, the scare tactics have abated for the
most part, however, the disinformation and need for greed have not let up. With
over a trillion dollars per year in health care profits on the line, it is easy
for those that understand what's at stake to realize the impetus for the
deception of the public. Since most Americans fail to read anymore, preferring
to be spoon-fed their news by a lazy, if not overly complicit corporate media,
few understand the ruse being played out in front of them.
First off, HR-676, universal health care for all, is hands down the least costly, yet the best
coverage and health plan for Americans. Every single American would get
coverage, while still being able to see the doctor of your choice. So why argue
about being forced out of your costly private insurance plan for a government
plan when the
bottom line is that you still get to choose your doctor?
Secondly, all other plans still allow the insurance companies
to profit handsomely, raking in over 33% of health insurance premiums for their profit, driving
up the cost of American health care while putting themselves in league with the
excessively lucrative oil companies, all during arguably the worst economic
downturn in this country's history.
Under HR-676, the Conyers-Kucinich plan,
the insurance company profit would not exist, forcing the cost of American
health care down. The reason being, HR-676 is a non-profit plan.
That is the primary reason why the insurance industry has
spent over one-million dollars per day to dupe Americans on health care reform.
Not only have they spent quite handsomely, but they've pulled in all of their
political favors from the politicians beholden to them through millions in
campaign donations. Every politician fighting against health care reform is on
the big money gravy-train from the insurance industry.
The biggest ruse is the public-option. They make it seem as
though they don't want us to have it, in essence out-Freuding many to then
scream and beg for it, so they think they're getting something they shouldn't have.
This is nothing more than psychological warfare. The Republicans and Blue-dogs want
Americans to believe the insurance industry doesn't want it, but truth be told,
even though the public-option may be government regulated to feature a lower
cost, it still delivers 46-million new customers to the insurance industry to
profit from. A huge win for the insurance industry.
Are you starting to get the picture?
The best plan for America is one that emulates the European
health care system, a government provided system that is free for all
Americans. With a single-payer plan, we get the freedom to choose our own
doctor, to visit the hospital of our choice, but with no premiums or co-pays.
Single-payer HR-676 is free health
insurance that will cost less than all other health care plans out there.
Don't be cheated by our bought-and-paid-for politicians, or a
deceptive health insurance industry. There's a reason they've spent
close to $400-million in this fight so far, to fool you so that they can keep their own share of over
one trillion dollars in health insurance profits.
If you're tired of being denied due to pre-existing conditions,
while enduring ever rising insurance rates, don't be a chump and allow yourself
to be spoon-fed a blatant lie. Take the time to look at non-biased sources of
health care info and get the real facts on
universal health care, single-payer HR-676. Hands down, the best plan
for America.
Fight for your right to the health care we all deserve.
Politicians Are Hiding The Best Health
Care Plan From Us All
The health insurance industry doesn't want us to have the best plan. HR 676, 'Universal' Health Care For All Americans!
It's all inclusive, more comprehensive and
cheaper too! The Cost:
Conyers-Kucinich Plan HR-676 $387B | Baucus Plan
$856B
Information On
HR 676 And Its Funding HealthCareNow.org Funding the plan:Maintain current federal and state funding for
existing healthcare programs; employer payroll tax of 4.5%, an employee payroll
tax of 3.3%, in addition to the already existing 1.45% for Medicare; establish a
5% health tax on the top 5% of income earners; 10% tax on top 1% of wage
earners, 1/3rd of 1% stock transaction tax, closing corporate tax loop-holes;
repeal the Bush tax cut for the highest income earners. (The ultra-wealthy would
finally pay part of their debt to society to fund HR 676.)
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