Will Congress Pass Ponzi Healthcare?

[Better Believe It]

Will Congress Pass Ponzi Healthcare? Let’s Say 'No' in Des Moines
by Donna Smith
March 20, 2009

Donna Smith is a community organizer for the California Nurses Association and National Co-Chair for the Progressive Democrats of America Healthcare Not Warfare campaign.

Listen to the plans. We’ll all be mandated to pay for health insurance. Since we’ll have to catch those who won’t pay the forced premiums, we’ll have to pay taxes to support enforcement operations to make sure we all purchase health insurance. And, if some of the Senators get their way, we’ll be taxed on any coverage we are forced to purchase through our employers (even President Obama is now saying he’ll consider that too). Does this sound like universal, guaranteed healthcare to you?

John Wasik reported in Bloomberg last week that 14,000 Americans are losing their employer-based private health insurance benefits every day right. 14,000 every single day. How anxious do you suppose those insurance companies are to replace those lost customers? And if I keep seeing Karen Ignagni, CEO of America’s Health insurance Plans (AHIP), front and center at every White House healthcare forum and at the front of the room in every Senate briefing, I’ll be 100 percent certain that the strings on this puppet show are being deftly controlled by corporate insurance giants.

What we’ll actually be buying will be more of what we have now. People will still have care denied. People will still go bankrupt. Moms with cancer will still fight with insurance companies while they prepare their children to live without them (as Obama’s mother did).

We can pass publicly funded, privately delivered healthcare for all. But we have to stand together to say we understand what they are trying to pull off and it won’t work.

Come to Des Moines this Monday morning and stand with us to tell those meeting inside the third regional White House Forum on Health Reform we want single payer now.

Please read the complete article at:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/20-11

[bluestateguy]

1. No, they are going to pass Fonzi health care

Sit on it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. I thought that was what we already have. nt