Posted on 03/18/2010 7:00:20 AM PDT by geniusbyosmosis
March 16th Leonard Boswell sent out a press release on why he supports health insurance reform quoting President Theodore Roosevelt saying “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain difficult…”
He goes on and says, “[f]or nearly 100 years, we as a country have recognized that there is a need to reform our health care system, but have instead let partisan bickering and politicking trump the health and well-being of our loved ones…
“…It will address the fact that medical expenses are the number one cause of bankruptcy in this country…
“…My priority has always been to make sure that the needs of all Iowans are addressed in final health insurance legislation…
“…Just last month, 80,000 individual policyholders in Iowa were faced with premium hikes averaging 18 percent…
“…Small business owners have been unable to hire additional employees because they can’t afford the increase in insurance costs.”
Yet another great example of the audacity of corruption.
Leonard Boswell has done nothing but politicize healthcare along with his left standing hypocrite friends. They claim to address issues like medical bankruptcy, high insurance costs and quality of care issues yet in our own VA Hospitals currently run by the government they’ve done nothing but mismanage the entire process to the detriment of our Veterans. This bill will do nothing to control costs. You can’t lower premiums when costs are rising for the manufacturers and expect anything to happen. This will lead to higher consumption rates and higher costs
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