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Boomer with Attitude / News Health care reform heats up — get involved
Posted By John Grooms on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Congress is beginning to hold hearings on health care reform, and as was expected, health insurance companies are out in force, trying to convince lawmakers to let them continue their same-old same-old. In other words, they don't want Congress to give Americans a choice of being covered by a public insurance option. Here is the primary coalition that's fighting for true universal health care. Check them out and see how you can help. In the meantime, if you want to know how we got into the mess we're in, you've gotta read "The Cost Conundrum" by best-selling author Dr. Atul Gawande in The New Yorker. It's a long article, but Gawande knows his stuff and he provides a clear picture of what has caused the astronomical growth in the cost of U.S. health care. The super-short version: much of the American health care system, specifically the health insurance business, has been converted, or make that perverted, into "profit centers" as a top priority, while patients' access to good health care comes in a distant second. It all reminds me of progressive author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickeled and Dimed) who, when asked how her ideas for a single-payer health care system would affect health insurance companies, replied, "I have a plan for them, too. It's called unemployment. After all, what kind of country pays people to deny their fellow citizens health care treatments?"
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