Why, with all of the Health Care reform debate isn't anyone making a big issue out of the fact that the Insurance companies are exempt from Federal Anti Trust requirements? Other than the Insurance companies paying off most if not all of our Congressmen and Senators I don't really know why, there can't be any other reason since this is the principle reason that we don't have any real competition in the marketplace, it's called 'no incentive if there's no competition'. We wouldn't be in the predicament we are today if there was national competition between insurance companies, and I don't buy for one second the lame excuse the insurance lobby throws out, that it will drive small insurers out of business, when in reality they will be forced to provide quality services. What will happen though is the 'crappy' insurance companies, of which there are many, would have to 'straighten up and fly right' or go out of business. I have had the misfortune to have been forced to use several of the, I'll call them, lesser, second tier or 'crappy' insurance companies over the years and from my experience all they do is take your hard earned money and give bad service in return. You want Health Care reform, then make this priority one.
Next is Tort reform and the second issue that the current majority in the House and Senate, that's Democrats for you Democrats that never bring up the topic in the company of your conservative brothers and sisters when you are berating us for being against your Health Care Reform movement that even you don't understand other than you think it's going to be free, which it ain't gonna be and never was, because most of our legislators are attorneys and from what I can gather many are of the ambulance chasing variety which means they derive a great deal of their income from suing Doctors and Hospitals and heaven forbid they should have their income limited in any way because they can no longer file one frivolous law suit after another. The last statement has nothing to do with legitimate suits that come about from negligence on the part of poor doctoring or hospital care, those deserve to be pursued, but even the lawyers of the ambulance chasing variety have to admit the system is clogged with greed driven stupid suits.
Well anyway, both subjects made about five minutes in the news this last week so I guess our elected officials and their mouthpieces in the media think it's all over and back to business as usual, I say they're very wrong. We can all make a tremendous difference in the next elections coming up in 2010 and 2012, it's time to take our government back from a small group autocrat wannabees and turn it back into government by the people and for the people.
Thanks for reading,
"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not it's inhumanity but it's anti-humanity".
Eric Hoffer
1902 - 1983
American author, philosopher. Awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom.
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