Health Care, Immigration Reform and Issues that Matter

Dear Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,

Please scrap your Health Care Reform Bill. Seriously, I know that you all think that this is a major victory, but it is not. You may as well take the original legislation, put in the blender, add water and pour half of it down the drain and pour the rest in a big fat cup for the rest of Americans to suck on!!

Sorry, but this bill is NOT going to fix any of our current issues. The public option, which was the big selling point for Americans who have no access to health coverage is now part of a broken promise....let's move onto prescription drug coverage, we will not be able to outsource American pharmaceuticals by buying on the Canadian and European markets (which, by the way, the U.S. has the highest cost of prescription costs of any other 1st world country--RIDICULOUS)!! Our legislators are apparently so far removed from the issue because they have the best healthcare out there (and it is run by the government, duh). They have no idea what it would be like to be a single mom waiting tables, with an income that is just over the limit to qualify her child (ren) for medicaid....then she has to go out and purchase private health coverage for her offspring which reduces her take home pay by about $300/month.

Moving on, the big pharmaceutical and insurance giants that were going to go down Goliath style and pay for the way the have screwed the American public--well in the new bill, they are the BIG winners. Congrats, Merck. Congrats, Pfizer. Congrats, Humana. Congrats, Anthem. Your money to change the bill to read the way you wanted it was money well spent. Kudos! David's rock has now been replaced with a pillow. Goliath can go back to sleep now and earn money while he does. Why are these the big winners?? Because now that the public option is out, 30 million Americans will be eligible for vouchers to go out and purchase their own insurance...Lucky them...now they can use tax payer money to give it directly to big insurers. Not that I mind, the upper 5% of wage earners getting a tax increase they won't ever notice, but it is the principal...in some cases doesn't that mean Mr. Anthem CEO whose taxes just went up is going to replace it with a windfall of new clients served to him on a silver platter by the U.S. government??? WOW!!

While this was all going on, and we were shifting the focus on a healthcare reform bill that means nothing to those who really needed it just to get "something accomplished" in the Obama administration's first year, other pressing matters are being overlooked and because they are not "popular" issues to bring to the attention of the government.