Ill-Gotten Gains

When Terry O'Neill decided to visit Ithaca, our chapter deceided that the critical issue to address right now is health care reform. Our Country has an opportunity to take a step forward, but appears to be poised to actually take a step backwards. It is better to do nothing than pass Baucus' plan. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/health/policy/17health.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Governement taxes us and provides us with services. That is the role of government---To promote the general welfare. I read it in one of those dusty old documents we keep in the Smithstonian.
We just keep forgetting about it. The problem with Baucus' plan is that it forces people to buy into private insurance. This is in essence allowing the insurance companies to tax American citizens. Unlike when we are taxed by the government, we will have no representation there. We can't vote out the insurance companies CEO! We can't vote on their bloated salaries? We will have no say, when they raise our taxes.
Taxation without representation! We fought a revolution against that. A little before my time, but I heard that we won. Not the insurance companies!

Insurance Companies profit off illness. They turn around and use their "ill-gotten gains" to fight against real health care reform. Do we really want to subsidize them and make them stronger?
We need to oppose the Baucus plan vigorously. It is a step backwards.
Lori