Lighten Up Obama
As owner of Colorado Health Insurance Brokers, I may not be the most impartial person on the planet but I am getting really sick of President Obama’s repeated attempts to demonize the health insurance industry. The reason why we have so many people that are uninsured or that struggle to pay their premiums isn’t because of greedy insurance companies, it is because the underlying costs have been spiraling out of control for years.
Putting the hammer down on the insurance companies won’t fix the problem any more than killing the canary in the coal mine would make the coal mine any safer. Rising insurance premiums are the leading indicator of the bigger problem.
Unless Obama has the courage to address the cost side of the equation the increased insurance regulations he has proposed will drive up costs for people that buy their own insurance. Providing government subsidies to provide the illusion that premiums are affordable is an expensive band-aid. Without addressing the cost side of the equation those subsidized costs will be eaten up by health services inflation and we’ll be in the same boat we are now in a relatively short time frame.
Cheryl said:
I agree! I have been writing my senators, representatives and the president with these facts, trying to get them to at least take an honest look. Unfortunately, the industry that is causing the costs to be so high has used their profits to buy our government’s course of action against to treat a symptom rather than the problem. Your analogy of killing the canary in the coal mine rings true.
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