5 Reasons To Support Health Insurance Reform
(#1) 450K Doctors Support Health Care Reform.
I’ve seen a lot of interviews with doctors who complain about the problems associated with trying to get the private health insurance companies to cover the care that their patients need. Overwhelmingly doctors favor health care reform (in fact many seem to favor a “single payer” system over the “public option.”) Who do you think we should listen to? The doctors that want to make us well or the insurance companies that just want our money?
(#2) Over 10,000 US Citizens Die Due To Lack Of Health Care Coverage Every Year.
This is a moral issue. If you are working against health care reform then you are working for the deaths of thousands of Americans. Really there’s no polite way to say this. It simply makes no sense to me that any American with even half a heart can be OK with the concept of their fellow Americans dying because they are not rich enough to afford health care coverage.
(#3) To Stop Discrimination Against The Sick People & Pregnant Women.
And it’s also the civil rights issue of our times. Right now the sick and the preganant are descriminated against by health insurance companies who won’t cover them due to “pre-existing conditions.” These are the people who need coverage the most and our system fails them.
(#4) To Keep Growing Costs Under Control.
With the current system America spends more money on health care than any other nation in the world but with inferior results to show for it. It’s clear that the US needs to do something to keep costs under control, that’s a big part of what health insurance reform will do. Those people who say health care reform will be too expensive are talking nonsense. What would be too expensive is not having health care reform.
(#5) The US Ranks #37 In The World In Health Care
For a country with the massive wealth of the US it’s absolutely embarrassing that our health care system ranks so lowly and that so many of our people die due to lack of basic health care coverage. It’s obvious that what we are doing now is not working. Read these seven truths about the US health care system to get a better understanding of how screwed up what we have now is.