Health Insurance Cons

The media and certain bloggers are ranting about how health care costs are skyrocketing. They focus on fraud, delivery snafus, old folks costing too much, and youngsters with chronic conditions costing too much.

It is a sorry state of the country when we are eating our young people and our seniors. That completely negates what has always been a central theme in our democracy -- we are one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all, And, we are all in this together. Any nation's standing should be judged on how they treat the least fortunate.

Stop chewing on the the red herrings for a moment and look instead at 2 quite simple facts: 1) we are the only major country with predominantly for-profit insurance companies running the show -- that means that a significant percentage of profit goes to stockholders.

2) CEOs & other health insurance executives take hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from each major company. Total costs to us -- all of us -- run into the BILLIONS each and every year. Chew on that instead!

While you're at it consider for a moment the administrative costs for a not-for-profit insurance company -- Medicare costs 3-5% of expenses to run. For-profit companies cost anywhere from 25-35% of expenses to run. You do the math.

Get Out The Vote

The best way to get out the vote seems to be to scare people. The Republican leaders have done it for quite some time. They are still doing it.

If you want to be scared or that's what it takes for you to decide to vote, how about this:

The Republican Leaders including Wally Herger, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Dan Logue, and Doug LaMalfa want to KILL Social Security;

The Republican Leaders including Wally Herger, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Dan Logue, and Doug LaMalfa want to KILL Medicare;

The Republican Leaders including Wally Herger, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Dan Logue, and Doug LaMalfa want to KILL Veterans benefits;

The Republican Leaders including Wally Herger, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Dan Logue, and Doug LaMalfa want to KILL the VA system;

The Republican Leaders including Wally Herger, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Dan Logue, and Doug LaMalfa want to KILL unemployment benefits;

The Republican Leaders including Wally Herger, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Dan Logue, and Doug LaMalfa want to KILL the elderly;

and The Republican Leaders including Wally Herger, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Dan Logue, and Doug LaMalfa want to KILL the middle class!

Does any of that worry you? Does it scare you? Does it make you understand that we all have to vote? Does it help you see that we are all in this together? Can you see that we must be informed, active, and voting? Be well.