Daily News Updates - Health Insurance News

The Health Care Heat is On, Pt.1 – America’s voice is heard.

Things are picking up in the health insurance/care arena. Now that the democratic preliminaries have resolved into unity, the party is free to move forward toward unified solidarity. One of the hot issues (rightly so) is the health insurance/care crisis.  The democrat’s “aggressive push for universal health care” (Post, Perry Bacon) will be one of the boldest moves ever to survive, if it does.  Just 14 years ago, ‘universal health insurance/care’ was such a foreign concept to the American public, that they all ran away from it in confusion. They required a much more visual proof that they needed it – and now they have it.

Recently, CNN News conducted a national poll to find out the needs of the American public. One of the key questions posed to those respondents was "Do you think the government should provide a national health insurance program for all Americans, even if this would require higher taxes?"  A resounding majority of 64% said “Yes.”  That’s way over half of the ‘projected’ general public and more than double the percentage (29%) who are willing to keep what we currently have, leaving so many without health insurance.  Our national leaders must be held accountable to the American public.  They are obligated to listen to ‘the people’.  These figures today did not exist 14 years ago, many hard lessons had to be learned and a simpler vision had to be developed.  A simpler vision is now before us and poll figures are providing clear expectations.  Perhaps enough people have suffered the current crises to finally get aggressively involved.

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