Reply #79: Overseas, you have nailed it

[Mimosa]

When the Byzantine, messy health insurance mandate bill was being concocted the President remained quite silent about the details. He didn't come out and push for a plan which would benefit the people. He campaigned against Hillary Clinton on mandates. He stood for a public option as late as July 2008, and some of us were dumb enough to believe he had strong convictions on an issue which is nearly life and death for many!

And nothing in this boondoggle will keep policies premium prices from going up based upon age.Even other 'pragmatic, sensible' countries who have health care plans using a combo of private insureres and public funding when needed don't do it that way. And to TAX GOOD health insurance policies -unlike the crap I have which costs $850 a month will make the rest sink to the bottom.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield policies sold to individuals to NOT ever even partly cover psychological counseling or therapy, even if related to mental distress caused by a chronic illness. And nothing in that piece of seel-out legislation will make the insurance companies do it. Say you have MS, Lou Gehrig's or some kind of distressing physical condition like psoriasis or elephant man's diseases. These all can cause people deep depression and make them want to kill themselves.

There will be nothing to make people able to access mental health services even iff they are paying huge premiums for individual policies. Face it, we got screwed and people will drop insurance when they can't afford it. Maybe they'll pay a fine. But we the suckers who are of an age where we've seen friends and relaives have heart attacks will hang on to overpriced policies out of fear of losing our homes. Yet nothing in the legislation now or in 2014 will make us more secure. The insurance and pharma corporartions were protected, even catered to in many ways.

People see through it and we don't like what we're seeing. Some of us worked VERY hard to elect Obama. We put our hearts, souls and what money we could into the campaign.

No, we didn't believe in miracles, we didn't expect them. We're tired of hearing that calumny.