health insurance threat

This threatening to raise insurance rates if the health reform legislation passes is simply ridiculous. We should just say, "Damned if we do, and damned if we don't."

For the last 20 years, insurance rates have been rising and have never gone down. They're going to rise if we pass health insurance and they're going to rise anyway if we don't. But legislation is precisely for the purposing of taming the rising costs of care. The health insurance industry knows it is going to lose a lot of money, and that is why it is running a massive scare campaign.

i wish a politician had the balls to say, "You ignorant fool, the government created Medicare in the 1960s during Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. The government did it because the private insurance companies believe that you old people are uninsurable. You're liable to get sick, expensive, and therefore you're going to be kicked off their insurance policies. The government created Medicare to help insure the old. Now, we're debating whether to provide a Medicare-like program for everyone else. You're also wrong about the politicians being insured by private companies. We most assuredly are not, we are insured by the government, and that is why we have been able to live longer than the average American people. So, learn your goddamn facts, you ignorant people."