Dear Senator Scott Brown.
Dear Senator Brown,
You are my new senator. I just listened to your reasons for dismissing the Obama proposal for healthcare reform. It made me think you hadn't read the proposal. We in Massachusetts are lucky to have health insurance for all. I know because I am a patient advocate and deal with healthcare and insurance issues nationally as well as locally. My local clients are able to get insurance even if they are receiving unemployment. Do you know what that means to someone who has chronic healthcare issues and has lost not just their job but health insurance also? Did you talk to those people when you were campaigning as MR 41? So many people in this country and not just the very poor have no health insurance. Do you know why? Many are refused health insurance because they had breast cancer or any cancer, or because they were born with a heart defect or developed acne ( is considered possibly precancerous) or had a stroke. How can you justify not supporting a bill which eliminates pre existing conditions?
People in this country are dying without health insurance. The number is 45,000 a year. Did you know that? Can you turn a blind eye to those who lived the American dream, paid taxes, voted Republican, saved for retirement yet end up going bankrupt because they have been dropped from their insurance and die?
No Republican plan addresses the above issues.
You need to stop the rhetoric, people will loose their current insurance. You know if you read the bill, it doesn't say that. In fact, it specifically says you won't loose it. Hey, if I am wrong show me where it says, All people with current insurance will loose their insurance. I don't want to loose mine.
The Republican stance, and now yours, is Obama's bill would bankrupt America. However, healthcare costs if continued unchecked or unchanged will increase the deficit and cause financial crisis. Who will bear the burden of staggering healthcare costs? Why aren't you outraged by the cost of premiums? Yes, it is all going to have a cost. I am asking you to stand up and figure out how to pay for it and not just be Mr. 41. Please don't use Medicare as a way to stymie healthcare reform. Medicare donut holes need to be closed. Fraud, abuse and medicare advantage plans need to be controlled.
I support healthcare reform. Am I Democrat or heaven forbid a liberal then? WHO CARES! I want to stop getting calls from crying clients stating they have been denied or dropped by an insurance company and start to get calls asking me to help them find the best plan.
Senator 41 can you do that NOW?
Posted by HealthCare Whisperer at 2/23/2010 3:23 PM 
Categories: conditions, insurance, healthcare reform, pre existing, Senator Brown
Tags: insurance healthcare reform Senator Scott Brown pre existing conditions
Categories: conditions, insurance, healthcare reform, pre existing, Senator Brown
Tags: insurance healthcare reform Senator Scott Brown pre existing conditions
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