Common Sense
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Where do they have the authority?I actually think that government sponsored health care is a good thing, and that Obama's plan didnt go far enough. I dont like gevernment being involved in everything in my life either, but I think that health caqre IS one of the things they should concern themselves with. Where I get aggravated is when the government tells me that I have to do certain things like say...wearing a frickin seatbelt.
Those are the places government needs to be brought down a peg or two. Why dont the tea party people seem to have problems with those kinds of things?
we as the voters gave them authority, and because the insurance industry forced their hand into this. if they (the insurance companies) would have made many of these changes by themselves, were able to keep their costs low, not take in record profits while limiting access and raising premiums, then they government would not have had to get involved. Let me put it a different way, health care insurers are the 2nd most profitable industry behind the big oil companies. when gas started to skyrocket there was public outrage and some people demanded that the government get involved and look to see if the oil companies were artificially inflating the market as well as artificially keeping prices high, because they were and still are taking in record profits. but yet we dont have near the public outcry for the health care industry, which in my mind is much more important than a gallon of gas.
so its ok for HC insurers to make record profits and limit access, but its not ok for big oil to make record profits? it seems to me that we as a country tend to have out priorities out of order.