Health Care Reform

Health care reform is in the news daily as it is the focus of Congress and the President in the near term. 

Almost 44 million people in the US are without health insurance or about 1 in 6 adults. It is estimated that 60% of bankruptcy cases are caused by health care bills and 75% of the bankrupt families had health insurance. 

The right wing warns about socialized medicine but there is already socialized medicine in the form of Medicare. Medicare is administered by the US government and provides health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria. 

Sarah Palin and others have warned that reform will lead to mythical “death panels” which will decide if people receive life saving health care. These death panels already exist in the form of the bureaucracy of health insurance companies denying payment for life saving surgeries.

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