This will define, or redefine what Congress is in the next election. It’s the story behind the story of failed healthcare, but does the formerly MSM cover it?

How ya gonna vote after ya lose your healthcare?
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Just Try Getting Sick

The lobbyist-run group, Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, is sending busloads of hired and trained individuals to town hall meetings across the country. They are sent to disrupt and harass representatives as they attempt to discuss health care reform with their constituents. A recently leaked memo from the organization can be found if one searches online.

Some of the instructions in the memo include:
Artificially inflate your numbers by spreading through the town meeting.
Be distruptive early and often.
Try to “rattle him”, not have an intelligent debate.

AHIP, a trade group and lobbying powerhouse that represents the health insurance industry is sending people to town halls to observe. They want to delay and, then, kill health care reform. Just as they are killing and maiming mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, neighbors, brothers, and sisters. And if you don’t think they are willing to kill you, too, then just wait. Given enough time the health “care” industry will undercut your medical care; just try getting sick.

The health insurance cartel is now the health insurance mafia. You cross them and you will be dealt with. These are the people who are making decisions about your coverage, your life.

Would be cute if we could do a rickrolling campaign to Had Enough with a current verse.

They came to this country, looked at Medicare, and adopted Medicare for All.

Too bad we can’t do that in this country!

OK. We know thank Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd publically recognize their good luck to have their government paid healthcare…but with a little research we could ask other lawmakers to publically announce their healthcare benefits. Who gets prescription coverage for viagra, lipitor, etc. Whose spouses & children have received lifesaving treatments, etc. How many of our “retired” elected officials are accepting social security and retirement benefits although they are already wealthy? How can this information be gathered and posted?

All of us know someone who needs national healthcare so volunteer to accompany take that person or family to the home offices of their Senator and Representative and let them tell their story. Or write down their story on the back of a paper printed with Kucinnich’s plan and deliver it in person or send it. The act of representing Americans other than ourselves could be impressive- the reverse of the selfishness that gives money to wage war but doesn’t protect it own citizens. HEALTHCARE IS NATIONAL DEFENSE!

Business owners, shareholders, and executives should be made to think about how much they are paying already, not just for their own employees, but for the uninsured through cost shifting and taxes to pay for the uninsured. Health insurance companies are currently able to keep up prices and drive out competition.

When a business owner buys health insurance they buy what will be accepted by health care providers in that area. You can’t expect Doctors to spend time jumping through bureaucratic hoops for an unlimited number of companies, especially when each health insurance company, or HMO has a different set of bureaucratic hoops to leap. Just having the employees do the paperwork would not work because the rates the dominant insurance provider pays is much smaller than people who pay cash.

Having a public option would provide real competition to health insurance companies would finally add some competition to health insurance companies’ fiefdoms. That’s why they don’t want it, and why every other business should want a public option.