Crist Helping Business Help Who?
Governor Charlie Crist represents what it truly means to lack empathy for fellow Floridians. According to Aaron Deslatte of the Orlando Sentinel, while touting his Cover Florida plan Crist told reporters, “The real concern here is to make sure the people have access to health care that’s affordable.” There are three problems with this statement.
First, one must ask what he means by the “real concern.” Did he mean “real” as opposed to fake? Or, did he mean “the real concern” to sound more like, “This is the point …” of some public priority that’s about as useful to me as … how I’m going to help my parents with an $11,000 medical bill they incurred to save my brother, uninsured, from dying at ORMC?
While the point for those without health insurance is a way to figure out how to stay out of the hospital, the point Charlie fails to grasp, is not “health care that’s affordable.” It is “health care,” period. Osceola County’s Cover Florida plan, for example, can go as cheap as $50.75 a month, which is great! That truly is health care plan that’s affordable, but is it, as Crist claims, for “the people?”
In looking at Osceola’s health care plan, it appears that is was setup to advertise options offered by private insurance companies. Crist’s plan does not offer a public option and that appears to be the point where is fails, completely.
Crist’s plan ensures that more and more Floridians every month will lose health care coverage. It is a process similar to the way credit card companies employ usury, such as jacking one’s card fee from eight to 28 percent. In a manner of speaking, one could say that Crist is employing health care usury, forcing those who can’t afford it to increase their risk of continuing to sink into the ranks of the poor.
On a personal note to U.S senator Bill Nelson:
It is your duty, as it is of all politicians, not to step “beyond the din of the vox populi.” We know your family, Mr. Nelson and pray that the C Street Gang, the new American Mafia, will practice empathy in spite of your religion. Please keep C Street out of our nation’s health care plan.
Please support the Obama plan.
Tanya
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