Comparing the Evil Insurance Companies to the Good Senators

I woke up this morning thinking about a relative.  A middle aged woman who fresh out of collage took a job in hospital administration and for years has been filling my ears with horror stories. Stories like steering near elderly and nearly bankrupt couples to a reverse mortgage so they can continue treatment.

Today she is celebrating a demotion. Less pay and more work but from now on she will only have to deal with foreigners who come here for elective surgery. Through applying for and receiving this demotion a huge weight has been lifted from her shoulders and the atrocious acts that were making her miserable will no longer effect her lifestyle.

There is a way too courteous war being fought in this nation. The war wages on between a large group of advocates that want to insure sanity in the way Americans receive healthcare and a much smaller gang of thugs that are looking to continue collecting corporate campaign donations from the medical industry.

Often times the many companies and people who actually perform these many despicable acts against middle class Americans take the brunt for performing their stated missions. Why is that?

       

Nyceve posted a inspirational and very informative piece two weeks ago about fighting Murder By Spreadsheet on the streets of San Francisco. While it is true that the "AHIP is a parasitic organization whose only purpose is to take money and destroy lives," nothing could be further from true than the quote "outlaw organization."

This corporate mentality of death is not as heinous as it sounds once the lawmakers justify the behavior that kills about 22,00 Americans per year and bankrupts another 2 million American households each year. There is something very wrong with calling it murder by spreadsheet when it is really murder by legislation?

Whereas health care costs are the number one reason for individual bankruptcy in the United States, in 2006, two million Americans - 74 per cent of whom had health insurance were forced to declare personal bankruptcy because of their medical bills.

It is really a very simple formula where the American people are financing their own early graves and bankruptcies. The insurance companies are just making money in the market that our elected officials handed to them. We pay the exorbitant fees for coverage and the insurance company forwards a percentage of that fee to our elected official so that they will ignore us, the people who elected them. In the for profit insurance industry it is our hard earned money that supports this blatant corruption in American government.

Had the major news organizations covered those San Francisco demonstrations, it would have certainly served the purpose of getting out the word on murder by spreadsheet but still the blame is being placed in the wrong set of bloody hands. We can even blame our government for the fact that so little coverage was granted to that demonstration. Through the extremely questionable move of allowing prescription drug commercials, those advertisements have become a major source of income for television news.

As I'm wondering how many other members of the medical industry, like my good relative, have been drinking themselves to sleep at night because they just feel so miserable the question that really bothers me is about our elected officials. Why don't the people who are in a position to do something about the unhealthy state of healthcare in America hate themselves? When you consider the fact that the public is suppose to represent the conscious of our elected officials how do our senators look themselves in the mirror?

Americans are not being victimized by AHIP. They are being killed and maimed by elected officials whose job is to oversee this industry. The AHIP is a nightmare, literally a terrorist organization that because of their capacity of purchasing our elected officials kill Americans with broad support from both houses of congress and the president of the United States. Combined with the other players in the medical industry these organizations have only one primary purpose, to serve their shareholders. But why should we blame the insurance companies, HMO's, Big Pharma or any disturbers of the public peace when they are just doing their job?

It is easy to understand a person doing a good job for their boss. That's what you need to do to get ahead in this world and live the American "good life." Even the CEO of an insurance company, however that person got there, can't be expected to turn down a job that pays millions per year when that CEO's bloody hands have been washed by the law of the land.

And who is the boss of these lawmakers? Since the government is supposedly deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, as soon as the public gives the real murderers the recognition they deserve, once Americans realize it all starts and ends with the lawmakers who endorse the existence of the AHIP, those people who deserve to be recognized as mass murderers for those 22,000 deaths and called out for the "usurpations" represented in those two million bankruptcies, then America can see progress. The pertinent fact is that the United States government is populated with cold blooded killers.

What progress have we made treating our elected officials with respect? We are in a presidential election where the Republican was quoted as saying "I want to keep health-care costs down until I get sick, and then I don't give a goddamn" and the Democrat is afraid to admit that he is an advocate of single payer healthcare.

Advocates of putting an end to this free market of death show signs of hope in a market that is far from free with 60% of the $2 trillion annual U.S. health care bill being paid through taxes. If you are working for change in medicine and you think that it is the insurance companies causing all of the pain and suffering you are actually part of the propaganda machine.

These are merely corporations doing what they do. It is very obvious to to every elected official that the profit in these corporations need to be outlawed but they like them money more that they like the people. Once the public does the math and accepts the fact that we are experiencing a government genocide of the American middle class there will be progress.

What we are left with now is a minority of informed and isolated individuals, some advocacy groups like Health Care Now that are ignored by the media and a few organized forces like the California Nurses Association and the Physicians for a National Health Program.

Someday these organizations will grow and win out but by offering respect to the people who least deserve it, that day is being pushed back, probably till the pain and suffering has become unbearable to the average American. How many more Americans must die before we go after the killers?

No government of any other industrialized nation is capable of showing such hatred for the citizenry as our so called representatives. We as Americans are literally being worked to death and the elected officials we support are our executioners.

For those who retire before age 65, when Medicare becomes available, there are virtually no other affordable options for health care coverage. But in 2007, only 33 percent of large private firms (with 200 or more workers) that offered health benefits to employees also offered them to retirees, compared with 66 percent in 1988.

Anyone with a conscience should have trouble dealing with destroying other peoples' lives but unlike the employees of the medical industry,it is very hard looking through the roster of the U.S Senate to find a good person stuck in a bad job. When will a senator turn to an AHIP lobbyist and say "I'm sorry I can't accept your check. Too many Americans are dying and the corporate power has gained so much influence that even our Democratic nominee can't offer any real solutions. To clear my conscience I am compelled to introduce a bill that coincides with H.R. 676."

Well there is Senators Edward Kennedy who stands alone with the Medicare for All Act or S.1218.  Not a single senator has been able to walk away from medical industry kickbacks and stand by this good man's bill. In the House of Representatives Rep. John Dingell has only been able to scare up 19 cosponsors.

Since that bill is completely different from The National Health Insurance Bill or H.R. 676 that is also going nowhere in the House of Representatives, it is not very far fetched to conclude that since no senator has introduced a companion bill to H.R. 676, the senate has offered an insurance policy to the medical industry.

The House of Representatives isn't much better than the cold blooded killers in the senate just because some of them signed a piece of paper. John Conyers and his 90 cosponsors preformed no legwork or attempts to bring these bills into the public debate. It has really amounted to nothing more than some denial of the corruption for viewers of C-SPAN and Americans who need to believe in these corporate representatives.

Debating which bill is better is a total waste of time because neither bill was ever meant to pass. Both bills get introduced in one congress after another and never get past the introduction phase. Because H.R. 676 was never even meant to pass or even come to a vote, single payer healthcare has never amounted to anything more than a false hope for Americans in need.

We are disgraced as a nation that we do not have a healthcare system that serves our people. We are # 37 in the world in the provision of healthcare to our people.  We are #43 in the world in infant mortality behind Cyprus, South Korea, and Slovenia. It is time for a change!

And let us not forget the fact that the U.S. ranks 45th in life expectancy  because of what our elected officials, not the medical industry, has put us through.

This is not about good public servants waiting for Bush to leave because he would veto it anyway. They are not bringing this issue to the public and getting on television to discuss the facts. For the most part they are not doing anything. This isn't about "we need more Democrats" or Bluedogs   because it is bipartisan homicide. This is about the moral bankruptcy in a totally corrupt government. This is about the fact that they just don't give a shit about you and we need to force them to care.  

And what are they promising us in 2009? I can offer a guarantee of the events that will unfold. If our worst nightmare comes true and John McCain ends up in the Oval Office we will take many steps backwards. Once Barack Obama is elected the industry will be all about public relations. To fudge statics, more insured American will become under insured Americans. The media will start running stories about how the medical insurance industry are doing a great job of self regulating and have fallen in place with the rate of inflation. The Republicans will channel these lies and the Democratic leadership will swear to it. Even though our Democratic president has so few answers, to buy time for this propaganda, healthcare reform will be stalled in the House and the Senate. Finally something diluted or destroyed by the greedy that greatly weakens Obama's Plan for a Healthy America will pass and in that time more Americans will die.

"Tweaks, nudges and faith in markets are not going to deliver good health care for all."

While our elected officials have no qualms about killing their fellow Americans they do all seem to have a strong desire to be liked and get reelected. If we ever get to the point where the letters and phone calls are asking "How many Americans did you kill today?" and there are citizens standing outside their offices chanting "Killer, Killer, Killer!" then we will finally get what this nation so desperately needs.

Videos of the day we kicked the a** of the insurance industry ended on a very positive note;

I'll end with an important update.  Make a big note in your 2009 agenda.  There are discussions underway about a huge healthcare march on Washington, the tentative plan is for Spring (the early word is May--subject to change, of course) 2009.

One million Americans (or more) will descend on Washington to demand affordable and guaranteed cradle to grave healthcare. When you remove AHIP from the process--this should be quite doable. We'll finally get HR 676, single payer healthcare, what the rest of the civilized world takes for granted.

I doubt very much that we will finally get anything if we continue to focus on anyone other than the only people in this deadly equation that have a choice about change. People are dying because congress is allowing those people to die.

Get a jump on the murderers and send a letter now. You don't need to be aggressive and make accusations. Try writing to your senator and presenting the fact that that senator already knows. Then politely ask "If an elected official is not working full time to bring about change then isn't that person who should be preserving American lives guilty of murder?"

I promise that you won't get an answer.