Posted by
Mark S. Rader on Monday, June 15, 2009 12:00:00 AM
I wrote recently about the Health Care Reform debate currently raging across the country and what is needed to really fix "forever" the systemic problems with both insurance and/or government run health care. Here is the note I sent to my congressman and Senators on the matter. Where do you want your money going? For coverage or for care? Remember... coverage is NOT care!
Dear Legislator,
Being someone who has lost my insurance recently and being put in the position of finding coverage I am realizing that health coverage is NOT health care and that trading one socialized system (insurance) for another (government) dose nothing for my bottom-line. I want to be self insured. I want to be able to save money for health care (not coverage) tax free. I want my health savings account to rollover year to year without losing it. I want my health savings account balances to be passed on to my heirs for their health saving accounts. I want the purchasing power for health care (not coverage) to be in my hands not the government's or the insurance industry's. I want the taxes paid by the medical industry as a whole, segregated to pay for the health care of the poor.
In short, I want the government to get out of the way and help me to become self insured... to help every American to become self insured. Trading one bureaucracy (the insurance companies) for another bureaucracy (the government) helps no one and will only continue to break the free market and force expenditures higher and higher for the same level of care.
Please, Please, Please, support health savings accounts that do not require one to have health insurance. As the Canadian Supreme Court ruled for Canadians... "coverage is NOT care".