The point is that we can get into tit for tat discussions.

The key point is that industry has a uncontrolled cost increase comming for health insurance and coverage of dependents will be the responsibility of the employee. We need to understand that the current model is unsustainable, just as the financial fiasco was and it is crashing.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Movies/story?id=7139585&page=1

http://www.businessroundtable.org/sites/default/files/Health%20Study%20Press%20Release%20FINAL.pdf

Just released study has the title: New Study Shows Health Care Costs put U.S. Workers at Significant Disadvantage Compared with Global Competitors.

Go to their website and go to the About / Members list and you will see it is a list of big name american corporations. This is business case which does not support the likes of Mike Rogers.

We need to get to the facts to make a evaluation of a complex subject.

Let us remember that the Republicans have had complete Veto proof legisltion for six straight years. Remember the shennanigans of Tom Delay, Duke Cunningham and Terrie Shivo.

Let us remember the record – Hopeless fraud and failure in prosecuting the Iraq War, Not getting Bin Laden who attacked us on 9/11, defunding the bank regulaters so they cannot do their jobs. Who can argue against this with the antics of Paulson going to the tax payer for a bailout of banking and derivative Casino Gambling. Within six years of the repeal of Glass Steagle, they brought the system down.

Since Hillary was killed on health care, the health industry has had carte blanch in improving the system. What have we gotten, a uncontrolled cost system which the employers are complaining about. My son in law (90 employee’s) was told by his health care company to expect a 20 to 40 percent increase and his way to cut costs was to do the employee only and let the employee pay for his dependents.

Our industries are at a competetive disadvantage when competing internationally.

There are some Republicans of good faith, but Mike Rogers is not one of them. The good Republicans have been hijacked the right wing. They need to get their party back.

I am, also, amused by you folks who so adamently defend an institution filled with greed and incompetency. By the way, I worked in health care for 25 yrs and participated in some of the fraud myself. While one could bitch at me, fraud is normal. Everyone does it. And as far as the American people go, the vast majority have little concept of the real issues in health care. You folks make sure of that.

The present system is destroying countless lives and the steadily increasing costs are breaking the backs of millions. Not so long ago, I was director of a health care organization and told by health insurance reps that I should plan on 10 to 15% increases in premiums as far as the eye could see. Only an American would fail to realize that is unsustainable.

Nationalized (socialized for the scare tactic people) systems are far more efficient and deliver much better health care. But I assume the World Health Organization, the facts from countries with nationalized care and all those Canadians I’ve talked with are lying. It’s an international conspiracy of misinformation folks!! Or maybe, just maybe, free market systems have some very deep flaws.