An Open Appeal To All
Americans
Folks,
Don't be fooled on the health care reform bill being worked
out behind our backs in Washington. It's a farce, period. The whole
thing is a scam to make the insurance industry moguls even richer. If you're
paying attention to real news sources and not the corporate media, you more
than likely already know this. If not, please consider the following.
It's not just the Republicans that are fighting against us
on this issue. Key Democrats are turning their back on us as well. Many
of the Republicans fighting against it were the biggest recipients of
campaign bribes from the insurance
industry, along with numerous key Democrats,
The guy leading the effort for the Dems, Max Baucus hammered this bill out
with his chief staffer, a former Vice President for Wellpoint Insurance. :o(
Starting to get the picture?
The biggest lie in this whole plan is the Public Option.
They called it this to make us think it was for us, the public, but
it is far from that.
As pointed out in a previous email, the public option is
not free and will be run by... not our government, but,.. (you guessed
it) the insurance industry!
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See the following article:
Public option likely to be
managed by private insurance company
RawStory.com, by
John Byrne
- Saturday, October 24th, 2009
A little-noticed tidbit in Saturday's Washington Post is
sure to raise eyebrows among supporters of a government-run healthcare plan:
the plan is
likely to be administered by a private insurance
company, the very companies that
progressive activists are trying to unseat.
The public option would effectively be just another
insurance plan offered on the open market. It would likely be
administered by a private insurance provider, charging premiums and
co-payments like any other policy. ...
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With 46-million Americans uninsured, this means our
wonderful back-stabbing bought-and-paid-for Congress is about to deliver all
of these poor souls as hundreds of billions of dollars in more profit to an
already TRILLION DOLLAR per year insurance industry.
Here's the big kicker that many do not know, Congress is
talking about making it a law that you have to have health insurance,
whether you want it or not. (Just like automobile insurance.) This is
what guarantees 46-million uninsured citizens to the greedy and
unscrupulous health insurance industry.
And don't think you will automatically qualify for the
supposedly lower cost "Public Option" because that will be available to
those who can't afford private health insurance. Congress is trying to
minimize who can take part in that plan.
Nevertheless, the insurance industry is the BIG winner
here, along with the corrupt politicians who are on the take, accepting
millions in bribes (campaign donations) from the insurance parasites.
There is one plan that many have not heard about because
Congress is keeping it quiet, even though it has been proposed for years.
This is the Conyers-Kucinich bill, HR 676. It GUARANTEES all of us
FREE healthcare, while cutting the insurance industry out of the
grossly obscene and immoral trillions in profit they rake in by denying us
coverage because of pre-existing conditions, like acne, headaches, or acid
reflux. (Yes, they've done this already.)
HR 676 is a single payer plan, meaning our government is
the lone payer for all claims. They pay the bills and their administrative
overhead, but with no profit! Over 33% of our current health care
costs go as profit to line the pockets of corporate CEOs already making
hundreds of millions in salary, plus hundreds of millions in yearly bonuses.
HR 676 ends all of that, driving the cost of health care down as a result.
Under HR 676 there are no premiums for you to pay, no
co-pays and no deductibles. Seriously. If you think it is too good to be
true, look into HR 676 and prove it to yourself. Look to Congressmen John
Conyers or Dennis Kucinich, the authors of the bill, for more info. Make no
mistake about it, you may find sites not advocating this plan, but
they are no doubt influenced by the one entity about to benefit from the
horrendous health care reform bill being crafted against us, the
insurance industry.
Under HR 676 there will be no more bankrupt families due to
outrageous medical bills. Plus, you get to pick your doctor, your dentist
and your hospital. Over 14,000 doctors are fighting for and supporting
HR 676, so don't let anyone try to tell you it will ruin our health care
system. The doctors know better and are doing their part for us. It's time
that we reciprocated and helped with our support as well.
How do we pay for it? Simple, with money we're already
spending. In America, we pay the most of any country for health care and we
get the least. (We rank 37th in the world for health care.)
Funding the plan:
Maintain current federal and state funding for existing healthcare programs;
employer payroll tax of 4.5%, an employee payroll tax of 3.3%, in addition
to the already existing 1.45% for Medicare; establish a 5% health tax on the
top 5% of income earners; 10% tax on top 1% of wage earners, 1/3rd of 1%
stock transaction tax, closing corporate tax loop-holes; repeal the Bush tax
cut for the highest income earners. (The ultra-wealthy would finally pay
part of their debt to society to fund HR 676.)
Folks, we've already been screwed by Congress once before on
the Wall Street bailout, keeping the ultra-rich wealthy while they foreclose
on the mortgages of "we the people." The middle and lower class
Americans have received nothing from the bail-out, except for a
single-finger salute from Wall Street and our formerly esteemed Congress.
Please don't cite cash for clunkers as a bail-out for
the average American either, because the little money paid out to those
already well off enough to buy a new car, sorely pales in comparison to the
trillions that the bankers and Wall Street fat cats got from the Bush
and Obama administrations.
We have all been screwed royally during the greatest
economic downturn since the great depression and they're doing it to us
again with this awful health care scam. (Both parties are sticking
it to us.) The rich are getting richer while we take it in the shorts.
Please don't take my word for it, read and educate
yourself. Be forewarned though, it will take some effort. You won't find
the best answers from our corporate media. You will have to go to the
internet (another thing they're trying to close off to us) and do some
real research.
See also the following sites, which contain more links for
you to glean info from.
www.newsfocus.org/health.htm
www.pnhp.org/news/2009/september/wellpoint_really_di.php
Don't just sit there and take more abuse like we did on the
bail-outs. Our democracy works only when we speak in unison together. Let
them hear us on Capitol Hill.
Email or call your Congressman! The following links have
been provided to make it easy for you...
Contact your House Representatives:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Contact your Senators:
www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_senators.htm
Tell your reps that we don't want to be a mandatory offering
to the insurance industry for hundreds of billions more in profit. We
want a real public option, like HR 676. Real health care reform
with real insurance in the best interests of "we the people."
Please... it's easy to do and it's the right thing to do,
for your children, grandchildren, and all of us.
Democracy only works when each of us gets off our butt and
makes an effort.
Please, make a simple phone call or send a quick and easy
email.
It will be worth it if we win HR 676.
With best regards to all,
Tim
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