If your daughter gets sick with Cancer or another life-threatening disease, how will you pay for the treatment she needs to save her life? As heart-warming as community bake sales are, will the proceeds really be enough to pay for her hospital bills?

Unfortunately not.

If you have limited health care now, or don’t have any health care at all, there is a distinct possibility that you won’t have it in the future unless there is serious health care reform soon.

What happens to people when they don’t get preventive care and treatment for serious illnesses?

It’s not pretty. Some of them will get sick and maybe die.

And, who are the uninsured? Are they really the “eleet Liberals” or are they the so-called “Real Americans” in the middle of the country? They are both and we are all Americans.

Two-thirds of the Americans who do not have health insurance in this country live under the poverty line and guess what? Most of them are working Americans who pay their taxes, but do not get health care benefits through their employer. Don’t you think they deserve health care or should they be forced into bankruptcy because of unpaid medical bills?

Do you really believe that health insurance companies have your best interests at heart? I don’t believe they do. Here’s a reminder for you: they are private corporations, just like the banks, who will turn their backs on you repeatedly if they believe there is a chance that they can actually get away with it.  

Just recently, Blue Cross of California raised their premiums by 37%. The average health insurance policy is already over $13,000/year for a family. The increase from Blue Shield would raise insurance policies to about $17,800.00 a year, which would more than unlikely be out of reach for the 10% of people in the United States who are uninsured.

Did Blue Cross of California really have the best interests of their insured in mind when they raised their premiums? Again, I doubt it.  Last year, Blue Cross actually gave bonuses to executives who denied treatment to patients based on technicalities.

Again, saving the insurance company money was more important than than saving lives.

There is absolutely no difference between a big insurance company and a giant financial company- the only thing they care about is profit.