Five Reasons Why Health Care Reform Is Essential

(#1) 450 Thousand Are In Support Of Health Care Reform.

I've seen a lot of interviews with doctors who complain about the problems associated with trying to get the private health insurance companies to cover the care that their patients need. Overwhelmingly doctors favor health care reform (in fact many seem to favor a "medicare for all" system even more so than the "public option.") Who do you think we should listen to? The doctors that want to make us well or the insurance companies that just want our money?

(#2) Over 10,000 US Citizens Die Due To Lack Of Health Care Coverage Every Year.

This is a moral issue. If you are working against health care reform then you are working for the deaths of thousands of Americans. I'm sorry, there's no polite way to put this. I don't understand how any American can be OK with their fellow citizens dying simply because they are not rich.

(#3) To Stop Discrimination Against The Sick People & Pregnant Women.

Not only is this a moral issue, it's also a civil rights issue. Right now the sick and the preganant are descriminated against by health insurance companies who won't cover them due to "pre-existing conditions." These are the people who need coverage the most and our system fails them.

(#4) To Keep Growing Costs Under Control.

Right now the US spends more on health care than any other country in the world and gets much poorer results back despite spending all of that money. It's obvious that something serious (such as "the public option") needs to be done to get health care costs under control. reform] is too expensive is ridiculous. What would be too expensive is not having health care reform.

(#5) The US Ranks #37 In The World In Health Care

For a country with the massive wealth of the US it's absolutely embarrassing that our health care system ranks so lowly and that so many of our people die due to lack of basic health care coverage. It's obvious that what we are doing now is not working. Read these seven truths about the US health care system to get a better understanding of how screwed up what we have now is.