Me too, Ginger.

This is the sort of thing I think of every time I here one of the anti-reform nuts say, "Do you want bureaucrats making decisions about your health care?"

So much this. To the point where if I try to talk rationally about it, flames start coming out of my ears.

[eta: I couldn't keep my mouth shut, so I went for broad moral values instead of direct engagement. This is what I wound up posting:

62% of bankruptcies in this country are due to medical costs which insurance companies refuse to pay. How anyone can realistically be arguing that a for-profit model of healthcare makes any sense at all baffles me.

We need a healthcare system whose business model is based on *providing healthcare*. Access to medical care should be considered a basic human right and something we DEMAND from our government, not something that politicians have to "ram down our throat."

The public option is a start. It's not perfect, but it's a start.... Read More

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This is the sort of thing I think of every time I hear one of the anti-reform nuts say, "Do you want bureaucrats making decisions about your health care?"

YES.

Oy, msbelle, I wish I could do something to help.

You should send the story of this whole episode to all your state and national representatives so they KNOW what private health insurance is really doing!

IOmeN, I think my interview went well yesterday. Everyone was nice and I hope impressed. Too hard to read. Iowa peeps are so nice to me. Keeping fingers crossed.

I sure hope things go as well as they can msbelle. I'm sorry you are having so much stress on top of stress.

I just got a letter from my House Rep that I wrote to about health care. He can't support a system that would "put federal bureaucrats between you and your doctor".

At least this way, I can have the pleasure of tearing up the letter.

He can't support a system that would "put federal bureaucrats between you and your doctor".

What a fucking hypocrite. Where exactly does he get his health insurance from?

Guess he doesn't need your vote.

I am tempted to e-mail him again, yell at him for spouting canned talking points at me, and tell him the story of this person I know who's having trouble getting insurance to cover a visit to the ER for her child.

He can't support a system that would "put federal bureaucrats between you and your doctor".

It's the disingenuous arguments that really bother me. I doubt your house rep is really so clueless as to think that corporate bureaucrats aren't already involved in health care decisions.