MoveOn Battling Blue Cross For Health Care Reform
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on May 19, 2009 in Barack Obama
First, Read This (taken from MoveOn.org)
The choice of a public health insurance plan is crucial to real health care reform. But right now, it’s being smeared by conservatives and insurance-industry front groups. Here’s what you really need to know:
1. Choice, choice, choice. If the public option passes, Americans will be able to choose between their current insurance and a high-quality, government-run plan similar to Medicare. If you like your current care, you can keep it. If you don’t—or don’t have any—you can get the public insurance plan.
2. It will be high-quality coverage with a choice of doctors. Government-run plans have a track record of innovating to improve quality, because they’re not just focused on short-term profits. And if you choose the public plan, you’ll still get to choose your doctor and hospital.
3. We’ll all save a bunch of money. The public option won’t have to spend money on things like CEO bonuses, shareholder dividends, or excessive advertising, so it’ll cost a lot less. Plus, the private plans will have to lower their rates and provide better value to compete, so people who keep their current insurance will save, too.
4. It will always be there for you and your family. A for-profit insurer can close, move out of the area, or just kick you off their insurance rolls. The public option will always be available to provide you with the health security you need.
5. And it’s a key part of universal health care. No longer will sick people or folks in rural communities, or low-income Americans be forced to go without coverage. The public option will be available and accessible to everyone. And for those struggling to make ends meet, the premiums will be subsidized by the government.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Attacking The Public Option
The insurance companies will be running anti health care reform ads again, just like they did when they successfully destroyed health care reform in the 1990s.
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To do your part to help fight back against the lies and distortions of the insurance companies donate to MoveOn.org who is planning to battle back against the lies of Blue Cross Blue Shield with some ads of their own.
The Public Health Care Option Is Essential
Without a public health care option health care reform means almost nothing. Of course the insurance companies don’t want real health care reform, they don’t care about people’s health. They never have and they never will. They are making lots of money with the current broken and corrupt system.
Consider this key point: The insurance companies make more money by denying health care coverage than they do by providing it! They have a profit incentive built into the current system to actually not cover as many costs as they can get away with.
Insurance companies are the enemy in this fight and any politician that sides with them over the public health care option should be voted out of office because they have chosen the side of the insurance companies over the side of the American people.
PBS Documentaries
Do not believe the lies about how socialized medicine in other countries doesn’t work very well. Watch these PBS documentaries to learn some truth about how other countries health care plans actually work.
The opinion voiced by move-on relative to the merits of a public healthcare option lacks breadth in its understanding of the financial dynamics of the US healthcare system. While the compensation of healthcare executives may be out of line it is hardly the cause of the problem. McKinsey & COmpany’s January 2007 accounting of the failures of the system point to two prominent issues: the failure to provide sufficient incentives to patients and consumers to be value conscious in their demand decisions and the failure to establish the necessary incentives or mandates to promote rational supply by providers and other suppliers. Without these measures in place the expansion of medicare and the documented cost shifting to private payers will produce a system with higher costs and worse health outcomes.
john g | May 21, 2009 | Reply
john g – to hell with the financial dynamics of the US healthcare system. We need a public health care system like every other civilized country on earth.
It’s time to move out of the dark ages.
admin | May 23, 2009 | Reply