A Second Look | From an Angry Father

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I sent this letter today to the delegation to Congress from my home state – both Senators and my Representative. For what it’s worth, I present it here now. I hope that it can help strengthen the delegation’s resolve to fight for a public health plan.

What is our guarantee that insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and businesses that self-insure, still won’t raise the premium rates, deductibles, co-pays, and drug costs after all this haggling is over?

Cost control isn’t – controlled, that is. The Baucus bill was probably written by the insurance industry.

Millions of Americans are suffering at the hands of big business, big pharma, and big insurance, when these entities are supposed to be in the business of making people whole.

Our two sons have no health care plan at all. They aged out of my plan years ago. They are part of the 47 million uninsured in America. They cannot afford the premiums and the co-pays. They can barely afford to pay their rent. What do you say to them? Die quickly?

We must have cost control. The public option is the only option available to us since single-payer was off the table from the beginning – a huge mistake by the Democrats.

Since you gave away the choice of single-payer long before this game began, then you must support a strong public option that offers all Americans the choice between expensive private health care that, more often than not, is just a five-percent-off coupon, and real public care that we can afford.