Sunday, August 09, 2009

I am in Favor of Health Care Reform!

I am in support of Health Care Reform. There are some who state that the big insurance companies and big pharmacy are in support of the plans to reform health care. This is false. They stand to loose money and influence if health care reform is passed Bill Moyers talks about the issue of health care lobbyists and corporate media greasing palms Mr. Moyers talked to a former executive of CIGNA who bares all about about how the health care industry is AGAINST any change. Here is part 1 of the interview This is part 2 of the interview The Republicans and right wing radio have told people to attend and disrupt the town hall meetings. Apparently this has little to do with the health care plan and more to do with a desire to get Obama out of office, Here is an article about how opponents of health care are using town hall meetings to disrupt discussion This is a well financed republican party and corporately controlled and funded operation being facilitated by a complicit media. Pretty soon more and more of us will have no health insurance and become poorer.I know Bill Moyers has a liberal point of view but he uses research not yelling and ranting. Here is a Dr. making for case for single payer.
"Obama is also being criticized by those who think he hasn't gone far enough. Dr. Thomas Clairmont, a primary care physician in Portsmouth, said he would ask Obama why he doesn't embrace a single-payer, government run solution. Clairmont said such an approach would be far more economically and medically efficient by cutting out the costly middleman of private insurance companies and be far less costly for taxpayers. He said the success of the Medicare program is evidence that the government can succeed where private industry ultimately can't over the long run."

Right now the insurance companies are deciding what you may get and they are in business to make a profit. Notice nobody is critical of the spending by big insurance companies and pharmaceuticals but govt is always critical. This would force any govt plan like medicare to be more efficient since it is taxpayer money

1 comment:

Carl B. Johnson said...

Mark, you have to get it right and not misquote me.

I NEVER said Big Pharms and Insurance were in favor of reform, I SAID they OWN our elected officials and will SUBVERT reform.