Dear Senator Collins,
Why do you and your party always look first to tax policy to achieve things? This might have some impact on health care for individual Americans, but it will have zero impact on insurance companies' habit of denying or rescinding coverage and refusing procedures even for the customers they do deign to accept.
The idea of a government-run health insurance program to compete with private plans is troubling even to potential Republican backers of a health care overhaul like Senator Collins.Ms. Collins said she would like to see the legislation “put more emphasis on health promotion, disease prevention, end of life care,” as well as tax credits for small businesses and self-employed Americans to ease their access to health insurance.
If I can't get a private insurance company to accept me because I've been taking blood pressure medicine for five years, what good is a tax credit?
Posted by Linkmeister at June 28, 2009 11:04 AM | TrackBack