Bravo to Bean for backing her people
The health care reform legislation is not perfect. Neither were the Bush tax cuts, a uniquely financed Iraq war, or the Medicare Reform Act that banned any effort to level-off prescription drug cost increases.
The aforementioned received scant criticism from fiscal conservatives.
Apparently, borrowing from foreign countries for clinics in Iraq and ensuring drug companies reap profits as mentioned above are good policy, though funds for community mental health clinics stateside and maintaining some stability for the national debt, companies and citizens are just wrong.
More expensive premiums for insurance that provide less coverage for fewer people is not sustainable or that which contributes to a healthy, productive and competitive America.
Why are the 3 million people addressed in the GOP's "legislation" superior to the 27 million to 29 million people they've excluded? Further, why are GOP members of Congress superior to any without health insurance, when said members of Congress never recuse themselves from taxpayer-funded health care?
Imagine the potential savings if they got their own insurance like they want us to do. Of course, they'd soon learn more than they'd like to about the cost of individual or small-group coverage. Some of them may have to sell one of their six houses if an insurance company was willing to write a policy for him at all.
When one disagrees, can we not avoid untoward verbiage, images and the encouragement of questionable actions?
Comparable alternative (legislation) would be helpful instead of the above. Related to this, why write oodles of amendments to legislation you do not believe is necessary? Wouldn't an amendment take effect if the legislation was approved?
Bravo to Rep. Bean for helping the average citizen who will benefit from affordable health insurance with insurance companies being put on notice to stop their less-than-prudent practices.
Marc J. Feldstein
Grayslake