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     What Health Insurers Fear Most

      by Richard Lewis

      In a free market system, people’s wages must be adequate to pay the cost of the products and services they consume, including health care.

      Today's health care costs are unrealistic. The cost of health care is much greater than the cost of any other product or service in these United States!

      As of 1994, only 26% of our nation’s health costs were paid by private health plans purchased by individual citizens or through a health plan paid for by a private sector employer.  The rest were under government control.  No wonder health care costs are spiraling out of control.  And costs are expected to increase as our nation ages!

      Health insurers "FEAR" that "we the people" may soon  demand that private health insurers be replaced with a single payer universal health system like those in Europe and Canada.

      Health insurers are betting  their future on a "business-government partnership". This partnership would use tax dollars to purchase health plans for 550,000 uninsured Kentucky residents. Our tax dollars would guarantee insurers profit from providing a basic health plan for every Kentucky resident.

      These plans represent a paradigm shift, a dramatic change in our way of life. These plans are not part of our American "Free Enterprise System". Free enterprise involves risk!

      If we choose a single payer system, then there will be rationing in order to keep the cost down.  There will be long delays and people could die waiting for service.

      If we choose a government / private insurance partnership, the costs will go up, as private insurers will be protected by the government. The doctors will be working for the insurance companies, not the patients.  At some point, people will not be able to pay anymore.

      There is no free lunch, and there is no free health care, either. The question is who will be in control – the government, the insurance companies, or the patients buying the medical care.

      Some gubernatorial candidates are willing to use the force of law to "protect insurers" and "profits" derived from unrealistic health care costs.

      Citizens could take these presumptuous health insurers and their self righteous political cronies to task.

      Health Insurance is not currently a "Right" guaranteed  by the Kentucky Constitution.

      If politicians continue to press for "fascist" business-government partnerships:

      "We the People" could insist that our legislature place an amendment on the ballot that will allow the people of Kentucky to decide if "UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE " should be a "RIGHT".

      If "WE THE PEOPLE" affirm that "UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE " is a "RIGHT", meaning that taxpayers will be forced to support it, then "WE THE PEOPLE"  should decide whether we want to force our fellow citizens to support fascist business-government partnerships or a socialist single payer system.  Or, if we decide that “UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE” is not a right, we could demand that the tax system be revised so it stops punishing people for buying their own individual policies and allows the free market to function to provide us the best services at the best prices. 

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