Better options will save lives

Options need to be available for those 46 million people who don’t have insurance. The health insurance and drug companies are paying millions a day to fight any kind of “change.”  They don’t want to adjust their profit margins down by providing for higher risk members. Who would? They will fight with everything they have to maintain the status quo and they have unbelievable resources.

A lot of people pay for their own health care and pay more because of the lack of competition amongst drug and insurance companies. Anyone can be dropped and/or refused because of some pre-existing condition or not-provided-for condition. Our health care costs more than any other industrialized nation. Why? Is it better? Whether it is or not, that would be the only argument for maintaining the status quo. A status quo that leaves millions without insurance shows up as unnecessary deaths and hospital emergency room costs that have to be absorbed somehow.

I don’t know if congress is capable of producing a workable system; I believe they have to try. There is going to be a whole lot of passion, and expounding before it is resolved or defeated.

I get angry with the solve-all-problems approach which creates an unwieldy almost 2,000-page document. Delay-to-the-death tactics and insertion of more stringent abortion controls is a desperation approach fueled by profit concerned dollars not true concern for health care or economics.

Better health care options save lives and promote national health.

WINSTON COOK

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