Insurance giants asked for this

I am writing in support of health care reform legislation passed on the Hill. I would have preferred a single-payer, public option, but it is a start.

For all of you who cling to insurance companies, I feel sorry for your deep seeded fear and lack of practical experience with these wonderful institutions. If insurance companies had behaved in a humane manner while still making a profit off our misery, this would never have come to pass. With every year, more and more was stripped away from our coverage, more loopholes for companies not to pay for care that we needed. Pre-existing conditions were the star of the show; you who want to stay with insurance companies help to create that sort of restriction.

"I don't want to pay for someone else's cancer care." Fine Americans we are. Everything we are eating and drinking is going to give us all cancer sooner or later. I am thinking we are going to need some care for all of that. That is just for starters.

For all of you who are so worried about future generations and the tax burden, give me a break. I didn't hear a peep out of any of you when it came to funding this "Vietnam" Bush got us into and the growing cost to care for the men and women who come back injured throughout the years they live on. Not one word, Republicans. How much is that going to cost us?

Insurance companies sell insurance for every aspect of our lives. Figure out how much insurance of any sort costs you on a yearly basis. This is a great start, we have to still dig the insurance companies out of politics along with religion, but that is another letter.

Joan Sjosteen

Glen Ellyn