I’m hoping for health care reform which will truly be in the public interest and that all of us will have affordable access to the care we need. If that does not happen, it will surely be because there are currently six active health industry lobbyists for each Senate and House member in Washington and so far they have spent $380 million to insure that their interests come first.
We all need to think about this. Does it make sense to continue to funnel our precious health care dollars through a parasitical middleman (big insurance) when all the evidence we need is there to illustrate how wastefully, expensively and often inhumanely they do the job we pay them to do?
When profit is the motive, huge CEO salaries, private jets, advertising, lobbying, and shareholder interests will come before us, the little people, even though we provide the funding.
If our three representatives in Washington really had our interests at heart, they would work relentlessly to remove the for-profit motive from the way we access our doctors and hospitals. Insurance companies can be involved but they need to be non-profit like they are in the health care systems of the other democratic, market-based nations who cover everyone and do it at half our cost.
I think we should demand it and make our voices louder than the lobbying and all that money.
Jennie Young
Elizabethton, Tenn.
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