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Tell Roy Blunt What You Want From Health Care Reform |
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House Minority Leader House Republican Roy Blunt (R-MO) has been named the chairman of the Republican “health care solutions working group.” I’ll wait while you finish laughing.
This is what Blunt had to say about health care last week:
Repeating the lies about Obama’s health care plan rationing care, socialized medicine, all that. Does that sound like someone who’s looking for solutions? Do you really think Blunt will be anything but an obstructionist?
When it was announced that Blunt was chairing this working group, he put up a page on his website asking for comments on health care from the public. So why don’t you head over there and tell him what you think? We’ve got a couple suggestions, plus a special email address for you to use when you fill out his form, so he knows we’re watching.
(also posted at the NOW! blog)
This what I feel about it, and the imput I wrote to Roy Blunt:
My first thought is that republicans just had eight years to fix health care. During those eight years unspeakable amounts of people have died due to lack of coverage. By lack of coverage I mean they have health care but the insurance companies profit more by giving you minimal coverage. There is also millions of americans who can not afford health care, and giant companies like wal-mart who abuse the current rules and do not provide health care. Lets not forget about the hard working families , who have done so much for our country, that get cancer or some other costly illness. Alot of those families lose their homes and retirement savings just to pay their health care costs. If the republicans really cared about this then they would have done something when they had the power. Instead they let health care companies grow into giants, gain record profits, and drive up health care costs to record prices. I beg you to please e-mail me with the facts if I am wrong. I wonder what you you mean when you say “promote competition” among health care providers. Do you mean compete to see who can provide the least amount of health care and in turn make the most profits? That is what happened under your watch. While the republicans ignored the people and opened the doors for big buisness. Now that the people have voted and the republicans are shamed by their historically horrible term in office, you would like to change things. Your health care solutions working group is a joke and only has big buisness in mind. You do not care about the people at all.
That’s a great note.
I would say about competition, it’s a tricky thing. I’m for making private insurance compete with a new public health insurance option. That kind of competition would make everything more efficient. But what we call competition now isn’t working.
December 2008, are you aware of the largest private financial fraud case in our country’s history?
National Century Financial Enterprises:
%u201CThis case is one of the largest corporate fraud investigations involving a privately held company headquartered in small town America,%u201D said Assistant Director Kenneth W. Kaiser of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division.
3/9/2006
10-K SEC Filing, filed by J P MORGAN CHASE & CO on 3/9/2006: Enron litigation. JPMorgan Chase and certain of its officers and directors are involved in a number of lawsuits arising out of its banking relationships with Enron Corp.; the three current or former Firm employees are sued in their roles as former members of NCFE’s board of directors
Just a reminder relating to the need for %u2018healthcare financial service%u2019 i.e. (NCFE) National Century Financial Enterprises; home health - which was struggling under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; about 1,400 agencies closed nationwide in 1998.
Guess one of the publicly traded healthcare companies that were involved in this %u2018private%u2019 financial institution that was used for the divestiture of the losing assets of the home healthcare units?
On Sept 8, 1998 Standard and Poors downgraded the bonds of Charter/HCA to negative bases on
poor earnings. Looks like Rainwater and his Crescent Cos’ have finally stumbled.
Columbia just decided to sell its home health-care business and its head announced she is forming a company of her own. The home care unit is valued at $ 450 million. At least two other top executives of Columbia have resigned.
March 26, 2008; By Jodi Andes; THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Nine other executives have been convicted or pleaded guilty in National Century’s collapse. Only Poulsen and executive James Happ still await trial.
Only Poulsen and executive James Happ still await trial?
December 18, 2008 - The ONE AND ONLY acquittal; James K Happ!
By Jodi Andes THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Prosecutors’ case fell short, juror says %u2026.Instead, they were more a belief that federal prosecutors had not done their job, the juror said after he and his fellow jurors acquitted James K. Happ of five counts after 12 hours of deliberation. “He very well may have been guilty. A lot of us thought he was,” said the juror who wouldn’t give his name. “But if he was, you gotta have the evidence.”
Who was James K Happ?
SEC Form September 9, 2003 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Med Diversified Inc.:
Previously, Mr. Happ served for three years as executive vice president of NCFE, during which time he restructured the servicer department to improve operational performance and accelerated the utilization of technology to increase operational efficiency.
Mr. Happ also served as chief financial officer of the Dallas-based Columbia Homecare Group, Inc.,
%u2026 In this role, he directed the company through the challenging reimbursement climate, known as the interim payment system, and participated in the divestiture of all of Columbia/HCA’s home care operations
Who purchased the majority of this divestiture in late %u201998 & early %u201999?
Medshares, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee
Who financed this divestiture?
National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc.