Reply #32: No public option means the corporations have full control of Congress [View All]

[SandWalker1984]

We should then change the name of our country to the United Corporations of America as the states and our rights no longer matter in Washington. What matters is what the corporations want - they are writing the legislation and paying Congress to get it passed. We the people are no longer a part of the process.

To those of you who think a bill without a public option is better than no bill passing, think about these statistics:

Since 2002
Health Insurance Corporations profits have risen 428%.
The average premium has risen 87%.
The chance that an American WITH HEALTH INSURANCE will be bankrupted by medical bills is 7 in 10.


People, we can't let the corporations keep control of our health care. They are killing us by denying care and bankrupting us in the name of greed and ever increasing corporate profits.

The insurance companies are now taking 16% of the GDP each year from us to provide us corporate "health" care. That's much higher than any of the countries that provide universal care (which average below 10% of GDP).

Any plan at this point that does not include a strong public option is not health care reform, it is in fact A BIG HANDOUT TO THE CORPORATIONS that have brought us to the brink of poverty now.

I too am putting my line in the sand for the Democrats and the White House on this one.

It has to be done and the time is now!!!!!