SAVING THE 6TH DISTRICT FROM ROSKAMCARE
My Congressman, Peter Roskam (IL 6th), has finally been forced by the relentless and inexorable march toward national health care for the 46 million and growing number of Americans who struggle without it, to admit the obvious at his August 17 town hall meeting attended by 12,000 constituents via telephone. In it Roskam agreed that the current health care system is “irrationally costly and doesn’t help those who need it.” Then Roskam spent the rest of the discussion speaking against the Obama administration reform efforts, including a public option designed to keep medical insurance companies competitive by saying “My hope is that we can come back (from summer recess) and the government-run insurance plans are off the table.”
For some strange reason the Congressman wants America to continue to be the only industrialized country in the world that doesn’t guarantee health care to all its citizens while he enjoys some of the best health care America has to offer, much of it financed by the tax dollars of ordinary Americans, including the medically uninsured. His plan is the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and how many of Roskam’s 700,000 constituents know how wonderful it is? For starters, there is no waiting period, and believe it or not, no exclusions for pre-existing conditions. Our tax dollars pay up to 75% of the premium and for that Roskam gets access to his own pharmacy right in the Capitol. A team of doctors, technicians and nurses are also on site in case of medical emergency caused by pushing those dangerous legislative voting buttons.
If I didn’t know better, I might surmise the Congressman is partaking in some of the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions being flung at Congress by the insurance industry to prevent reform which just might reduce the billions in profits they realize from a system that allows them to charge what they want, exclude the sick and needy, and set up technical rules and procedures which are daunting and discouraging to all.
No, it must be that Congressman Roskam, having sampled the evils of government sponsored medical insurance, feels compelled to prevent such misfortune from being foisted upon the truly needy.
Also published in the Glen Ellyn Sun, September 4, 2009
For some strange reason the Congressman wants America to continue to be the only industrialized country in the world that doesn’t guarantee health care to all its citizens while he enjoys some of the best health care America has to offer, much of it financed by the tax dollars of ordinary Americans, including the medically uninsured. His plan is the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and how many of Roskam’s 700,000 constituents know how wonderful it is? For starters, there is no waiting period, and believe it or not, no exclusions for pre-existing conditions. Our tax dollars pay up to 75% of the premium and for that Roskam gets access to his own pharmacy right in the Capitol. A team of doctors, technicians and nurses are also on site in case of medical emergency caused by pushing those dangerous legislative voting buttons.
If I didn’t know better, I might surmise the Congressman is partaking in some of the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions being flung at Congress by the insurance industry to prevent reform which just might reduce the billions in profits they realize from a system that allows them to charge what they want, exclude the sick and needy, and set up technical rules and procedures which are daunting and discouraging to all.
No, it must be that Congressman Roskam, having sampled the evils of government sponsored medical insurance, feels compelled to prevent such misfortune from being foisted upon the truly needy.
Also published in the Glen Ellyn Sun, September 4, 2009
posted by Walt Zlotow at 4:04 AM
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