Who Needs Health Care Reform? EVERYONE? and Other Political Commentary

I have received my 2010 notice of rates for our health insurance handled by Aetna. We did pay $201/month with a $2,500/person deductible. Well hang on to your hat folks, effective April 1 it will be $875/month. That is just a 335 % increase. The deductible remains the same unless we can get covered in a different program, but at the same cost.

I am mad as hell at the indecisive Democrats, Republicans and Tea Party, just say NO folks, that do not support health care reform. If you think lawsuit reform is going to reduce health costs enough to make it affordable you are smoking more than toilet paper. I guess none or their friends or family have never had a preexisting condition!

Do you know what a significant cost driver of medical insurance and medical cost s. It's the folks that do not get any and still go to the doctor and hospital when sick or injured and do not pay or, get the pay-a little a month of the rest of their life plan. It is folks like us that buy insurance that are carrying them.

Then there are the Republican politicians that have 100% free health care for life (and never have introduced a bill to take it away) and say NO to everything except their annual pay increase. Oh they say yes some like for their ear marks. Most times the ear mark is in a bill they vote against too. Also, how many of them showed up to take credit for a stimulus project they voted against. Real hypocrites. They make Judas look like a nice guy.

Then there are the Tea Party folks that say no one should pay taxes and the government should stay out of our life. That is fine until they have a kid or grandkid wanting to go to college and takes the free cash under a Pell grant, or they want nice roads, good schools, lots of public services, and such. They are so sad that the banks and our financial institutions were saved. I guess they wanted a great depression. As for health care, they do not want government making decisions for them. Where the hell have they been. It's the big fat cat insurance companies that tell all of us what to do now. They tell the doctors how to treat us. Oh yes, I forgot, if you do not have insurance you get all the free care you want and n one to tell you what you can have. Nice!


A Tea Party web site sells these signs. Why not a YES sign for progress for all of us?

I do not want to forget the Democrats that also can't figure out whether to stand or sit to urinate on these issues either. There is lots of fingers to point their way too. At least most of them want some type of reform and are wanting to support our financial system so we do not have a total collapse.

No I am not pissed off. I am mad as hell. I pay taxes and a part of them goes to pay health care for those that do nothing to get insurance. I pay high insurance rates to carry these same folks. As far as I am concerned, if you can not prove you have insurance or a way to pay at the door, you should be allowed to just stay in the parking lot of the doctor's office or hospital. Why should you receive any health care?

So, the next time any of you say we do not need health care reform and how you want to eliminate all taxes, make a list of everything you plan to give up. Start with the basics: low cost and abundant food, sewer service, water to drink, electricity, roads and bridges, education, prisons for the bad guys, healthcare, police and fire protection. I am sure all of those that provide these services to you will work for free in your Tea Party Republican utopia.

I am not in favor of taxes higher than necessary. I know there is a huge amount of waste in government. I have no doubt that our politicians of both parties are far more interested in their own hides and getting re-elected than they are worrying about doing right for the country and its citizens. But, what can you expect from a voting population that seldom vote and when they do seldom vote in fresh people.

It just came as a big shock to me that I have two choices in health care. Pay out the nose and have insurance or join the slackers that buy none and expect someone else to take care of them. I took the hight road and will figure out how to pay it. I am not about to ask for health care for free.

Before I get off my soap box, a special one finger salute to Sen. Selby of Alabama for holding up all 70 of the President's appointments because his state did not get a tanker contract from the military that went to a USA plane maker instead of a French one he supported. This Senator is a classic example of why our political system is broke. I am sure they need jobs in Alabama, but to give them to a French company over an American one!