C'mon, Really

(originally a guerilla blog on Hillary)

From a Hillary campaign email:
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(How expensive ARE those plans?)

'K, I can't let this one go.

Y'know, when the talk about Hillary running for Prez started, which was when Bill&Hill left the White House, I was enthusiastic. Good, Gods, a woman in the White House, and the wife of a man I admired, as well.

Well, I've actually been listening to Hillary over the last few months, especially the health care, and I can't help but feel that we are being mislead.

It's all in the wording, folks. "Health care" translates into "health insurance". Hillary is on the insurance industry's TOP FIVE recipients for campaign contributions.

I don't think the tax credits are going to help any family trying to comply with a new federal law saying they must have health insurance, as most insurance premiums are due on a monthly basis; families will receive their credits yearly.

Also, the potential notion of providing proof to an employer of health insurance is not going to do anything to help small businesses; they will still have to offer their health plans, which the employee will be free to take advantage of. The only possible beneficiary of this plan is big business; large corporations, manufacturing businesses (whatever's left in the country after Bill Clinton's NAFTA sent most of those jobs overseas.)

It IS a good effort, but Hillary hasn't evolved from her 1998 ideas, or her 1998 understanding of the problem.

The problem is not that people WON'T provide insurance for their families. The problem is that the insurance industry is corrupt; the very bedrock platform on which HMOs were built was non-payment of benefits. The second problem is that the industry has made quality insurance for the common family with an income under 80,000.00 a year nearly unaffordable, and nearly unattainable, with its layers of beaurocracy employed solely to find a reason NOT to pay benefits, and a labyrinthine system of qualification that cuts holes in the insurance certificate that excludes pre-existing conditions, "experimental" treatments, "elective" or "medically unnecessary" treatments.

As long as ANY health care plan allows the insurance industry to play, the game will be rigged. I don't care whether it's Hillary, Obama, or Edwards, any reliance on the insurance industry to drive their health plans will perpetuate the corruption and hardship to common families to protect their families facing medical hardships.

I'd ask Hillary to seriously re-think her plan; and again ask her to stop taking money from the insurance lobby. At the very least, taking money from that industry will perpetuate the view that the industry is driving Hillary's interests, not Hillary looking out for families interests.

BTW, I see you have changed your Terms of Service to give you the right to remove any content. Fair enough. But your right to remove content that critisizes you does not trump my right to express that content. I'm still claiming my 1st Amendment right to speak and express my views in a peaceful manner in any forum. This would be no different from standing outside your campaign headquarters with a bullhorn. It also suggests you can't take any critisism of your policies if it doesn't come from a campaign opponent.

BTW, Happy Yule