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US HealthCare System Implodes - " Health Freedom " is

Here...

 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen�

 

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

 

The US healthcare system �is falling in on itself,

and it is about

time. Change is in the air, and it won't take long.

Rated 72nd in quality

worldwide - but number one in cost, it has become the

number one killer

of Americans.

 

American industry, quietly, over the last few years,

took the Bush

Administration by the throat, so-to-speak, and

demanded, and got,

legislation moving consumer health choices out of the

hands of the mega-greedy

health insurance industry and into the hands of those

same consumers.

 

US Industry did this, not just to put a stop to the

health insurance

industry's " low quality at high price " offerings, but

to protect US

Industry's ability to compete in a world market, keep

its US employee base,

and, frankly, stop the outright destruction of the US

economy by

runaway health, and health insurance costs.

 

This is a huge victory for the large, and powerful,

" North American

Health Freedom Movement. "

 

US Industry, years ago, was saddled with the

obligation, by US law, to

provide health insurance coverage to its employees.

Any company with

over two hundred (200) full-time employees met this

requirement.

Although this sounded like a good idea, the health

insurance industry, in my

book, rotten to the core, took this " obligation " to

the bank, and began

to charge over-the-top, incredible amounts for that

" required "

insurance coverage. Last year, for instance, the

average cost for health

insurance per employee to a US company was $14,700.

By my calculations,

only about nine (9) percent of health insurance

premiums was available to

pay claims. The rest went into the mega-greedy maw of

the

marble-buildinged health insurance suck-a-thon.

 

As I said then " No wonder US industry is " outsourcing "

labor to

Guatemala, Costa Rica, Thailand, etc. They are

trying, themselves, to

survive... "

 

But THAT is all over... Reaction, nationwide, to

health insurance

company mega-greed, took different forms. In

California for instance, the

State Democratic Party came out in favor of making the

sale of health

insurance ILLEGAL, and has passed the first of a group

of anti-health

insurance bills through both the State Senate and the

House (SB840).

But, nationally, US manufacturing interests took a

different tack. They

pressed the Bush Administration VERY HARD and changed

the law regarding

US industry's requirement to provide health insurance,

from " complete

coverage " to an entirely different system based upon

the idea of... a

" High-Deductible with a Health Savings Account (HSA) "

package.

 

To read the entire article, and access the interesting

links, click on

the URL below:

 

 

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/health%20freedom1.htm

 

Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

 

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This " Millions of Health Freedom Fighters -

Newsletter " is a

NON-COMMERCIAL email newsletter about the politics of

�Health Care� on Planet

Earth. It talks about the raging battle between the

forces of " Health�

and �Medicine. " In the US, the ultra-expensive

�Medical System� has

failed. It is the NUMBER ONE killer of Americans �

ahead of heart disease

and cancer. That failing system protects itself, and

attacks its

critics viciously. But, there are literally,

" Millions " of people forcing

change on that system.

 

This newsletter is about all of that. Tim Bolen is an

op/ed writer with

extensive knowledge, and contacts, on this subject.

 

A copy of THIS newsletter, and about four hundred

previous ones, are

viewable at the websites http://www.bolenreport.net,

and

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/index.html.