Chicken Little Congress

Note: I got this from Montana Maven, who gave anyone permission to publish it.

Senator Chuck Grassley pays $356.59 a month for health insurance with a $300 deductible. We pay for his cheap care with our taxes. When asked why we can’t have what he has with our tax money, he told the guy to “Get a job with the Feds”. Hey, Chuck, guess you forgot whom your boss is. It should be us. But like Max who received $3,902,785 from the health care industry over his career, Wellpoint and Blue Cross Blue Shield might have better seats at the Chuck’s table.

Americans are already paying more in taxes for health care than Canadians and are not as healthy. We have the fourth highest infant mortality rate of the 30 developed countries. We are 24th of the 30 countries in life expectancy. That’s because we have a for profit insurance based system. We have great health care providers, but we are often denied full access by some insurance bureaucrat.

Health insurance is not health care. Trying to figure out how to keep the profit in health care is a losing proposition. Other countries use insurance companies to manage bill paying but all of them are non profit.

And we have the money to pay for it. All our Chicken Little legislators do is squawk, “Cost, cost, cost!” like a bunch of hens. We have a $16 Trillion dollar economy. We just spent $160 billion bailing our insurance giant AIG. We spend over $1 Trillion a year on keeping 761 military bases in 150 countries. Come on, close a few of them. A measly $150 billion a year for health care is cheap and money much better spent because it is spent here in the good old U.S.A. on its hard working citizens. Support H.B. 676 Medicare for All. It’s a lot simpler than the Chicken Littles want you to believe.