Health Care Battle - Obama Finally Fighting Back

By Doug Hardin

Well, it's about time. Mondays New York Times is coming out with an article that Obama is finally going to be fighting back over health care. For way too long he has been making polite with the insurance companies. For what? In the hopes they would start to see the light of day?
You betcha!

First there was the joint press conference with Obama and the insurance CEO's all making nice and celebrating a pact that the insurance companies were all going to cut some costs and make it all better for the citizens. Well, that lasted about 18 hours until the insurance companies said, "Well, that isn't exactly what we meant."

Come on, lets start telling it as it is. These guys have been Swift Boating insurance reform since before there were Swift Boats. Let's talk about a couple services they regularly perform for the citizen,

1. Raise the premiums on insured when there is a serious long term problem. What are they gonna do go to another company?
2. As soon as an insured reports they may have a serious health issue they have people who pore over the policy, prior medical records and almost literally go through their trash to find a reason, any reason, to cancel the policy because of a previous condition or deceit on the application. Deceit could be as simple as transposing numbers on a telephone number. Doesn't matter. Deceit is deceit.
   
3. They also have people especially trained to just say no to every procedure and cost.
4. If a small company has an employee who has some serious medical costs, they will either raise the premium or, hopefully, twist the arm of the small businessman to figure a way to get rid of his now-expensive employee.
5. Write their policies in such a way that it looks like you're insured for anything, but if you actually need the coverage you find out that you purchased a 15 page piece of swiss cheese.
   

There's more, but you get the idea. Is this news to anybody? Why are we tolerating it and claiming we have the medical care in the world. Well, maybe we do, but only for the super rich with $40,000 per year actually get any of that good stuff.

We in the cheap seats get nada and it's about time the president starts fighting back on this. I don't much like Nancy Pelosi. not sure why, but she is right. These guys are scavengers living quite well on our money and our misery.

More later about why we are ranked 31s in health care, how any politician could not possibly want to put these guys in prison and the whole scam