By Joseph J. Kusnell

Dear Senators,

I received this from Senator Arlen Spector’s (PA) office:

“Health care reform should improve health care for those currently insured. Insurance companies should cover more preventive care costs and be prohibited from refusing to renew coverage in the event of catastrophic illnesses, denying coverage, or charging higher rates based on gender, pre-existing conditions or health status. Reforms should also eliminate lifetime and annual caps and limit out of pocket expenses.”

Give me a break. First, let’s discuss pre-existing conditions. How do you presume a for-profit company can accept someone at $700/mo. who is terminally ill and will cost them one million dollars. Would you do that with your own money? And what happens to the company or its employees because that company can’t stay in business being Santa Claus to people they never saw until they walked in sick.

The cap is another matter and certainly a case can be made that you can’t discharge someone simply because they reach a maximum cost to you; not if you are to remain in the insurance business. That has an element of truth but the rest is political and that’s sickening.

Some insurance companies have a waiting period for pre-existing illnesses. Why not just let Medicare cover the waiting period and then turn it back to the private company. That works for me.

As to the 43 million or 61 million or 30 million – Democrats have used all those numbers – the truth is none of them are accurate and your using them tells me you don’t mind lying if it gets your agenda passed.

The following breakdown comes directly from the US Census Bureau, 2009.

 10.0 million are individuals who have income of $66,000 for a family of four that choose not to have insurance. They could afford it if they wanted it. It’s their choice. ERASE 10.0 MILLION.

 9.3 million are non-citizens who generally do not pay tax. (ILLEGALS)
They are going to become part of the final group in this list. So save this number.

 6.4 million are enrolled in Medicaid or S-CHIP but reported to the Census taker that they were not. This phenomenon is known among statisticians as the Medicaid undercount. These folks are covered yet are wrongfully included in the non-covered count. ERASE 6.4 MILLION.

 4.3 million are eligible for Medicaid or S-CHIP but for their own reasons, have not enrolled.
(So when they come in for any service, enroll them. Problem solved. ERASE 4.3 MILLION.

 5 million are childless, mainly healthy young adults who could afford insurance but don’t want to pay for it because they think they are indestructible. Money is not their problem so (1) mandate health insurance to get a driver’s license and (2) offer cataclysmic health insurance for singles up to age 35. Then let them buy their own insurance. ERASE 5 MILLION.

 10 million indeed do need help to buy insurance. So save this number.

So in summation, you can see that the number that have no insurance and cannot afford insurance is really significantly less than 43 million. It is closer to 20 million and that includes 10 million who are not even citizens of the United States. You could buy them all health insurance for 160 billion s year and it would be a lot cheaper than what you are doing and a lot smarter. Anyway, they don’t all need 100% assistance. Some may need as little as half so the total would probably be under 100 billion annually. Far short of a trillion.

If you really wanted to solve the problems you could but it wouldn’t fit your real agenda – Universal Health Insurance and control of 1/3 of the US economy – so you won’t. And because you are so biased and so driven by your agenda, we can’t resolve the real problems that do in fact exist. Thanks to you, this has become a political football rather than a true attempt at reform.

You people should all be kicked out of office since you are incapable of telling the truth.

I care about the poor and disfranchised but that doesn’t make me stupid. If you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, there will be no more geese and no more golden eggs either. And if you take from producers repeatedly to give to non-producers you are going to create a world of non-producers and in the end that just won’t work. What do you guys eat for dinner anyway.

We are being led by fools.

Oh yes, I love the idea of Marxists and Mao-lovers in the White House and DEVOUT MUSLIMS in Homeland Security lol. I was led to believed that the guns that ran those planes into the World Trade Center were all DEVOUT MUSLIMS.

What’s up, Mr. Chamberlain? How did your meeting go with Mr. Hitler?????

Dopes.

If we get hit because of your idiocy and toleration of our enemies, I hope it’s in your town and not mine.

Say a prayer for the kids killed at Ft Hood in that “man made disaster”.

The lady in the harbor has a tear in her eye, for sure.

Sincerely,

Mr. Joseph Kusnell