Health care reform, first, Thanksgiving dinner reform, next
Twice this morning I've seen this TV commercial produced by the Service Employees International Union praising Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus for voting for the House version of so-called health care reform.
Politics and business. Never the twain shall meet.
The SEIU ad states: "Congresswoman Dina Titus took action, voting 'yes' to force insurance companies to cover the treatments we need from the doctors we choose at a lower cost."
It reminded me of that speech President Obama gave in support of health care reform.
"What this plan will do is to make the insurance you have work better for you," the president promised. "Under this plan, it will be against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing condition. As soon as I sign this bill, it will be against the law for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick or water it down when you need it most. They will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime. We will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses, because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they get sick. And insurance companies will be required to cover, with no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies — because there's no reason we shouldn't be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer before they get worse. That makes sense, it saves money, and it saves lives."
No extra charge, just take it out of that obscene 6 percent profit margin.
I don't know why no one else has thought of this before, but Congress — in light of that survey that found 14.6 percent of Americans have "food insecurity," meaning they "worried" about running out of food, like people worry about insurance coverage — should get to work on Thanksgiving dinner reform.
When you go to buy that holiday turkey for 99 cents a pound, the grocer would be required to throw in cranberries, dressing and yams, then be required to come to your home to prepare the meal, at no extra cost. How'd that work out for the grocer?
