Health Insurance Reform - The Final Lap

Well we finally made it. After a full year of promises from one side of the aisle that the country would have health insurance reform we are down to the last few days before the vote is taken. We are down to the FINAL LAP!!

Let's talk about what we will have once the FINAL LAP is completed. We may have a health insurance reform program that will cost US (as in the United States) or US (as in you and me) over a TRILLION dollars in new debt. This is debt that those of us over 50 can probably live with because we will probably not be around long enough to see the devastating effect it will have on our children and our children's children.

We will definitely have hundreds, who knows maybe thousands of pork barrel programs buried in the health insurance reform program that have absolutely nothing to do with reform, but in fact are the results of Washington D.C. "horse trading" for votes. I am not even sure that any of these programs are included in the debt number that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) came up with for the program. I tend to doubt it since these little ditties fall outside the purview of the CBO audit.

Oh and by the way if the bill does pass on the FINAL LAP all of you folks who are in desperate need of health insurance coverage will have it available to you in 2014 or there abouts. Meanwhile the insurance companies will have about 4 years to raise their rates high enough to cover any additional costs they will experience when this whole thing is finally in place.

So far this whole thing sounds like it might have been instigated by the insurance lobby in order to allow insurance companies to raise their rates, and increase their profits during a period of escalating health care costs which they have been desperately figuring out how to deal with.

The sad part about is this whole conspiracy theory would make a heck of a lot more sense than the reality. The reality sadly enough is just another misplaced desire by the government to walk all over our personal freedoms, and convince everyone they are doing it in our best interest.

If this bill passes on the FINAL LAP I am afraid it will become the FINAL STRAW that will ruin our society for years to come.

And believe me no one in the insurance industry, no one in government who truly cares to look at the ramifications, and no one of US is in agreement with what might happen this week, BUT if it does every single one of us will have to live with it for the rest of our lives and sadly so will the generations that follow us.

Vote NO on the Health Care Reform Bill!!