Is Healthcare Armageddon Next?

Pork larded insurance companies

I am a disabled female who worked for 47 years of my life and who thought she was doing fine until the corporation I worked for had to restructure due to bad business decisions, poor management and the greed of CEOs. Thousands of employees were left with no job, no stock, and no retirement. Now, through no fault of our own we must depend on Social Security, which is why millions of us will defend it to the death. The cost of healthcare is not due to the patients or the doctors but because our dear President Bush allowed the insurance and pharma industry to write the rules and regs for their industry, for their own benefit and profit. Now, we are paying through the nose. It has come to the point where seniors and the disabled will not be able to afford insurance because the industry is making billions while we are making choices like...do we buy milk and bread or do we go to the doctor. I have written several organizations advising them that companies are eliminating supplemental insurance where we were paying $30-50 a month---now we are being forced to pay $150-200 a month for health insurance. If we receive $1,000 a month in SS benefits and have to pay $700+ for rent that leaves us only $250 for food, prescriptions, utilities, etc. What will happen in the VERY near future is that the 40-50 year old children or grandchildren will be paying for the healthcare of their parents or grandparents. The insurance companies get paid right away before anyone else and at 18% more than original Medicare. Bush is making sure he leaves his buddies well cared for and the hell with the seniors, the elderly, the ill or disabled. The baby boomers will end up picking up the tab so that the industry can continue making billions.

Ann Marie of IL @ Nov 05, 2008 19:26:35 PM