Editor's Choice: Health Care Reform efforts by US Senator Jeff Merkley.... he wants my $$$ to fix the their problems... nothing has changed

By Angelika Dietrich
WallowaValleyOnline.com

In an email I received from US Senator Jeff Merkley since I am on his mailing list (in my job you have to read both sides to know stay informed) I received the following statement:


Dear Angelika,

After years of skyrocketing health care costs and insurance industry abuses, the effort to create affordable, accessible health care for all Americans is within sight.

I have been working tirelessly with my fellow Democrats to create a bill that will lower costs, ban insurance companies from denying care on the basis of preexisting conditions and include a public health insurance option to keep insurance companies honest. And I need your help.

As we get close to historic health care reform, the Republican leaders in Washington and the industries they protect are getting more desperate.

You've heard the right-wing noise machines' lies and scare tactics. They'll stop at nothing to block change. We need to fight back.

This battle for health reform shows how important it is to have strong, progressive voices in the Senate who are willing to stand up to the right wing. I've started the Opportunity and Renewal PAC to help expand our progressive ranks in the Senate - not just for the fight on health care, but for all of the important work we have to deliver on America's promise of opportunity and a fair shake to all of its people.

Join me today and help send the leaders of tomorrow to Washington, D.C. to fight for you.

Every day, hard working American families are going bankrupt because of the exorbitant costs of medical care. They're losing their jobs because health costs are so high. Insurance company bureaucrats are denying them care when they need it most.

We can't let the opponents of reform keep the status quo intact. Join me and make your voice heard
for real health reform and real change in Washington, D.C.

If we stand together and speak out in one solid voice, we can and will deliver real change for a better America.

Sincerely,

Jeff Merkley

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When you click on the link Join me and make your voice heard you may be amazed that Merkley want $$$.

Here is my five cents worth of being opinionated:

In order to fix the health care problem for those of us you can't afford it in the first place, Merkley is asking for money to fix a problem that had been created by the private health care industry, the judicial system allowing frivolous lawsuits and a government allowing both for decades.

Of course, Merkley cannot know our income nor employment status, but with a little bit of logic wouldn't you think that the man knows by now how many of us can't afford health insurance in the first place, have a low income job or have no job. At least they claim to know the numbers.

It seems to me that the government is asking us to once again double dip. They break or never fix the system. People suffer because of it, and then they ask for money again to fix what they broke or never fixed in the first place.

Any comments???

Probably not from people who believe in socialism ...

According to Wikipedia -- Socialism -- refers to various theories of economic organization advocating public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with a method of compensation based on the amount of labor expended.

In real life that means the ones who do the least get the most for nothing, to make them equals in the real world where the rest of us work out butts off to pay to make our dreams come true AND to pay for [their] entitlement of equality in resources.

In Germany while on welfare: You are ENTITLED to a color TV, a phone, a cash clothing allowance for NEW clothes, food stamps, gas money, rent and utilities paid. Germany's social give-away system is now broke. We are already broke...

Want to debate me on that one: Grow up in Germany for 20 years as I did as a member of society and not as a vacationers, foreign student, or professor who explores the country -- they have money when they get there, and money when they return home...

In closing, I want to assure everybody that is not about about being a Democrat or Republican. It is about a bunch of law makers on both sides who have completely lost their connection with planet Earth and the people who they claim to represent.

But apparently they don't have to live on minimum wage in Salem or in DC....