We can’t afford health care! Start over! Reign in the attorneys; that will fix health care! Let me buy health care in Idaho that will ease the pain! Let the market decide who lives to fight another day and who is abandoned along the road!
As the president and his democratic colleges work to bail water from our leaking ship of health care coverage the Conservatives and Tea Party advocates keep rowing hard in the opposite direction to protect the insurance and pharmaceutical companies from reality. We are still a long way from shore but we are closer than we have ever been.
Let’s go back where this all started. Most of the (free market rules all) strategies and globalization initiatives began during the Reagan Administration when the subject of unrestrained world trade and monetary policy first came to light. Much has been written concerning the reasons for our wide-open border trade deals but, in simple terms, some wealthy individuals saw a way to exploit the poor and indigent of other countries for their personal wealth. At first it was great fun, ship in a few wiring harnesses from Mexico or source some widgets to China. But as we began to lose these good paying manufacturing jobs, that all came with health care coverage, the costs began to rise because there were fewer and fewer workers to spread these costs between. Currently, health insurance for a family of four costs over $12,000 a year and health care company profits have gone up over 1000 percent during the last 5 years.
Now we find ourselves in a situation where these multinational companies and their jet-set CEO’s are working hard to protect their assets in places like China to the detriment of their home land the United States. Our government needs to stop the support of these companies and the American consumer along with the American worker needs to be heard in this debate.
All of this open-market trade and out sourcing of jobs has had a great impact on our country. Real wages have been going down in the U.S. for a decade and our current unemployment is hovering at 10 percent, not counting those who have given up. Approximately 50 million Americans don’t have health care coverage and some of the largest American companies, General Motors and Chrysler, are just back from bankruptcy, partially from spending more on health care than on steel. Every thirty seconds an individual goes broke because of health care costs and many American companies are on the brink; all because they have to compete with countries that offer universal health care coverage to their citizens.
While talking to a friend, who works as a nurse, he said that half the beds in the hospital where he works are empty, where just a few years ago they were full to capacity. His opinion is people just can’t afford to go any more; or they have lost their health insurance; or their co-pays keep them sick at home. On the other side of the coin, the mortuary business is booming. Is this the new conservative health plan?
As the president and his democratic colleges work to bail water from our leaking ship of health care coverage the Conservatives and Tea Party advocates keep rowing hard in the opposite direction to protect the insurance and pharmaceutical companies from reality. We are still a long way from shore but we are closer than we have ever been.
Let’s go back where this all started. Most of the (free market rules all) strategies and globalization initiatives began during the Reagan Administration when the subject of unrestrained world trade and monetary policy first came to light. Much has been written concerning the reasons for our wide-open border trade deals but, in simple terms, some wealthy individuals saw a way to exploit the poor and indigent of other countries for their personal wealth. At first it was great fun, ship in a few wiring harnesses from Mexico or source some widgets to China. But as we began to lose these good paying manufacturing jobs, that all came with health care coverage, the costs began to rise because there were fewer and fewer workers to spread these costs between. Currently, health insurance for a family of four costs over $12,000 a year and health care company profits have gone up over 1000 percent during the last 5 years.
Now we find ourselves in a situation where these multinational companies and their jet-set CEO’s are working hard to protect their assets in places like China to the detriment of their home land the United States. Our government needs to stop the support of these companies and the American consumer along with the American worker needs to be heard in this debate.
All of this open-market trade and out sourcing of jobs has had a great impact on our country. Real wages have been going down in the U.S. for a decade and our current unemployment is hovering at 10 percent, not counting those who have given up. Approximately 50 million Americans don’t have health care coverage and some of the largest American companies, General Motors and Chrysler, are just back from bankruptcy, partially from spending more on health care than on steel. Every thirty seconds an individual goes broke because of health care costs and many American companies are on the brink; all because they have to compete with countries that offer universal health care coverage to their citizens.
While talking to a friend, who works as a nurse, he said that half the beds in the hospital where he works are empty, where just a few years ago they were full to capacity. His opinion is people just can’t afford to go any more; or they have lost their health insurance; or their co-pays keep them sick at home. On the other side of the coin, the mortuary business is booming. Is this the new conservative health plan?
Manufacturing jobs paid for a lot of health care insurance coverage in this country. Perhaps the only way to right our ship is to bring them back and one of the avenues to getting them back is to reduce the cost of health care and streamline the entire system to the point that it is cost effective for companies to bring the work here and not fear runaway expenses to insure their employees. Health care reform equals more jobs in the United States. We can’t afford not to do it.
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