INSURING THE UNINSURED

INSURING THE UNINSURED


Candidates for public office are fond of quoting the figure forty-seven million Americans without health insurance. In order to reduce that number, or, as at least one candidate proposes, bring that number to zero, it will require the business community to offer health care for all employees. In addition, self-employed persons will be required to purchase their own policy.
The penalty for non-compliance has not been clearly defined in campaign appearances (no doubt an unfortunate oversight). The inexpressible joy of those forty-seven million will be celebrated throughout the land and their votes for said candidates will be graciously noted on election day. In addition, the Insurance industry will also be smiling, content in the knowledge that their campaign contributions have fallen into the right hands.
Those who have the audacity to question such added costs for the American business community, at a time of uncertain trends in the US economy, are regarded disdainfully as Neanderthals.
After all, what could be more pleasing than a successful political campaign, funded in part by rich American businessmen (and women).
The fact that forty percent of those forty-seven million are included on the policy of a parent or spouse is considered to be irrelevant. Of the remaining twenty-eight million, many are newly employed youth, working in entrance level jobs. That detail is also not worth considering; it merely distorts the glorious concept of a “single payer system”.
The fact that health care costs are escalating at three times the rate of increase of the cost of living, is part of modern day life. After all, we're not living in the eighteen hundreds.
So, be reasonable, trust the people who have brought you the comforts of life in America; re-elect those hard working incumbents and pay no attention to the voices who claim to be in touch with Working America. And don't forget, the people who are providing the twelve hundred
dollars ( per couple)“economic stimulant” are those same hard working, far sighted incumbents.
These selfless public servants are daily toiling long hours in the nation's capitol to bring you the material comforts which you so rightly deserve (which, unfortunately your grand-children must repay).

Richard Todd Snoqualmie WA 4/23/08