Healthcare Premiums 3-20-2014

http://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/letters/76087-james-veverka-3-18-418

To the Editor,

Have you wondered why healthcare premiums will go up for some, which is the people at the top? Its rather simple. In the past, insurance companies would bar people with pre-existing conditions or drop people when they became too sick and expensive. That kept the costs down for healthy people and top earners. But now that its illegal to do such things. By barring those people "not good enough" for the insurance company's bottom line, it kept many well to do people's premiums down. That's right. An uninsurable person gets sick for life or dies just to keep the premiums lower for top earners. Now the playing field is leveled and the privileged are no longer customers with discounts due to barring people who really need healthcare.. Fancy that. If you are not in the greatest health, you arent good enough to be taken care of. People in actual need of healthcare get barred in order to keep prices down for others who help the capitalist's version of the bottom line. ?This scenario is why healthcare can never work as a free market commodity. With healthcare, people must be the bottom line.

It would appear that the right wing is toast on repealing the Affordable Healthcare Act. The latest Quinnipiac poll reveals that 62% of Americans oppose repealing the law. In those 62%, 10% want it unchanged and 52% want some tinkering and ironing out (that would be me). America has finally caught up to NH, who by the same 62%, opposed its repeal in 2011.

Last week, the Senate held hearings on Canada's Single Payer system. A Republican was grilling the Canadian minster using the talking points of the Tea Party. One question regarded why doctors were leaving Canada. She made it clear such was not the case. When he hit her with the usual about waiting lines, she spoke of how they were dealing with that with elective procedures. It doesn't happen in emergency situations. She sunk his little plastic boat by adding -  we might have some waiting problems but we don't have 45,000 people dying very year because they can't get healthcare. I love my new Silver Plan. My wife and I pay a total of $106 a month. We do not shed tears for the people who lost their discounts and special treatment due to the illnesses of others.

Have you ever wondered why the GOP never said a peep when people got dropped or premiums went up before Obama? When you have been bought and paid for, you keep your mouth shut and let people die for the benefit of the sociopaths who only care about money.