Dear Members of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Commitee,
I deeply appreciate you, and I hope your stand on Healthcare reform mirrors my own. I want to let you know that I fully want a single payer health care system, and a way out of the chokehold health insurance companies have on healthcare. These companies are taking advantage of people and doctors by driving healthcare costs up. Most important to me is that each person in this country can get the healthcare they need to stay healthy. Women should be able to have children without listing pregnancy as a "pre-existing condition". I recommend to anyone who argues with *real* healthcare reform, which takes health insurance companies out of the equation, to simply stop having health insurance for a while, and then try to sign up for it. I can only afford "disaster coverage" right now, and I have heard that in the fine print many of the insurance companies don't cover many of the "disaster" conditions for which you buy the insurance! Is it not true that all of the people voting on Health Care Reform already have health insurance? How nice that must be. What a luxury!
Another important aspect of this debate is how important entrepreneurs are to this country. Is this not agreed? At the moment, any entrepreneur will not be insured unless they have extra money to spend (at least $200/month for a basic plan) that they wouldn't be putting into their business. Alternatively, an entrepreneur must work for a bigger company, just for the health insurance. It makes no sense for the larger economic picture.
Requiring people who cannot currently afford health care insurance at the current exorbitant prices to *buy* health insurance is not health care reform; it's requiring already struggling people to give *more* money to the health insurance companies, which will make them more powerful, and hence may charge even higher prices since they'll have a captive audience, as it were. Again, it makes no sense.
Can't we simply put everyone who wants to join on the current government health insurance plan that all of our Representatives are already on?
Many Thanks.
Anya Behn
I deeply appreciate you, and I hope your stand on Healthcare reform mirrors my own. I want to let you know that I fully want a single payer health care system, and a way out of the chokehold health insurance companies have on healthcare. These companies are taking advantage of people and doctors by driving healthcare costs up. Most important to me is that each person in this country can get the healthcare they need to stay healthy. Women should be able to have children without listing pregnancy as a "pre-existing condition". I recommend to anyone who argues with *real* healthcare reform, which takes health insurance companies out of the equation, to simply stop having health insurance for a while, and then try to sign up for it. I can only afford "disaster coverage" right now, and I have heard that in the fine print many of the insurance companies don't cover many of the "disaster" conditions for which you buy the insurance! Is it not true that all of the people voting on Health Care Reform already have health insurance? How nice that must be. What a luxury!
Another important aspect of this debate is how important entrepreneurs are to this country. Is this not agreed? At the moment, any entrepreneur will not be insured unless they have extra money to spend (at least $200/month for a basic plan) that they wouldn't be putting into their business. Alternatively, an entrepreneur must work for a bigger company, just for the health insurance. It makes no sense for the larger economic picture.
Requiring people who cannot currently afford health care insurance at the current exorbitant prices to *buy* health insurance is not health care reform; it's requiring already struggling people to give *more* money to the health insurance companies, which will make them more powerful, and hence may charge even higher prices since they'll have a captive audience, as it were. Again, it makes no sense.
Can't we simply put everyone who wants to join on the current government health insurance plan that all of our Representatives are already on?
Many Thanks.
Anya Behn
