Today the finance committee in the senate voted down the public option amendment. This bill coming out of that committee will not contain the Public Option. Some of the senators had smirks on their faces and appeared cavalier with a Country Club aired about them. While saying resoundingly clear, No to any competition to the health insurance industry. which is exactly the intention of the Public Option. I wonder if some of the senators equate the word “Public”with the Projects, or Welfare, or some other negative connotation, therefore a “Public Option” to the Health Care Bill, must be bad?
Back to the country club, smirking U.S. Senators. We can’t allow them to deny us the right to competition,
And then still give a gift of 30 to 40 million new customers to to the Health Care Insurers. After all they will still be in control as they are today. They will have no competition as they have none today. The health care cost curb will continue going North.
So Senators of the U.S. Senate, The insurance companies may have helped you get elected, by contributing to your campaigns, But know this, It is us, We the People, who turn out in the sun, rain, cold, and snow to pull that lever.
Beyond the issue of removing those Senators who don’t serve us, The next issue before we let them go, is to make sure that without a public option, We demand these Senators pass no Health Care Reform at all. And leave us with the status Que until such time that we elect officials who will give us True Health Care Reform. The last thing we should be doing is rewarding big insurance by giving them a Windfall if Health Care Reform passes without a Public Option. That would just be business an usual, in government. Quid Pro Que. We cannot let that happen people.
