The insurance companies suffer from a pre-existing condition: greed. To protect their income stream, they have purchased our elected representatives. As Bill Moyers reported recently, they have hired six lobbyists for every member of congress (including 500 former government workers) and have donated nearly $50 million to the current members of the Senate Finance Committee over the last 10 years.
One day after President Obama stated that the various parties have come closer than ever to finding common ground in the struggle to reform health insurance, the health insurance industry issued a report warning that such legislation would raise the cost of a family's health insurance by an additional $1,700 per year in 2013. This was after months of working behind the scenes to help shape the legislation.
The insurers have shown their true colors, and we can no longer afford to cover them. I propose that we have a health insurance strike.
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