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Our economy is uncompetitive globally because of healthcare cost that are caused by the insurance industry.

Medicare has gone up according to the Congressional Budget Office, by 2% over the rate of inflation, while private healthcare cost have risen over 500% times the rate of inflation. They remain out of alignment with the other modernized countries of the world and it is the single handed reason for job loss to other countries. One example of this appears in the language of numbers and percentages. Yet, when the healthcare issue came up 15 years ago, while the republicans held the majority in our government, they did nothing to reform healthcare. All research and hard evidence in campaign contributions indicates that the insurance industry owned the politicians.

Today the tactics and movements by the right are just as sinister, case in point, Lou & Associates a self touted healthcare research firm, put out a report that states that the public option will push all insures into the public plan and destroy the private insurance industry. Such propaganda and the mis-information put out by these republican backed entities were found out to be created by insurance lobbyist . Lou & Associates which continues to put out reports like this is owned 100% by the insurance industry. The republican shouting point that a single payer system would lead to healthcare rationing, is beginning to fall on deaf ears as our nation wakes up from its slumber, as it realizes that our Medicare and Veterans care is single payer and no rationing takes place in those systems.

Four hundred billion a year is spent just in the administrative cost of private insurance. Those funds alone could cover over 80% of the cost to cover the 47 million uninsured. The reality is the private insurers are practically in the doctor’s office with you telling each physician what they can and cannot do as they try to treat you for our illness. Saying yes to this test, for this patient and no to that patient. A 2007 study funded by the US government shows that 82% of physicians in this study reported that they could not effectively treat their patients because of insurance restrictions and intervention. Insurance has become nothing more than middlemen that has interjected themselves between and our doctor and possibly our life. They will do anything to keep it the way it is and send others to their death to keep this system of greed. The generation that robbed, pillaged and took advantage, without ever thinking of leaving something behind for others.

Source: examiner.com

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