Tim Bolen: US HealthCare System Implodes - Health Freedom is Here...

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" Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter "

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US HealthCare System Implodes - " Health Freedom " is Here...

 

 

 

 

 

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.