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Speaking Up From the Blog, Pt.4 – We don’ need no stinkin’ incentive. We need help!

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Now, live from Main Street, we hear from most of America, all in the words of the most sincere blogger, signed in as ‘M Bergman’ (Avg 5.00). Health insurance/care ‘incentives’ need to be confined to their purpose – to help out a little. This is light-years shy of reform. When serious Health insurance/care reform is critical, it is an insult to Americans when the only offer by a candidate is an incentive. Talk about lame. Main Street ‘M Bergman’ should be awarded the exclusive patent on the phrase ‘Straight Talk’. What good is an artful-dodge incentive when Americans are still stifled with impossible up-front Health insurance/care costs?

Forget about your pompous wisdom of ‘shutting off cable’ when the TV has already been hocked. Forget about foregoing ‘vacation’ – what vacation. Forget about cutting back on ‘entertainment out’ – how does one cut back from nothing. Forget about getting a better-paying full-time job – they aren’t around. When an honest family can’t pay subsistence expenses and still get health insurance on retirement, SS and a PT job combined, you’re out of line, Mr. candidate, when your best offer is a minor ‘incentive’. If you’re only concerned with the people who live as well as you and your friends who already have adequate health insurance and lack nothing, then you must not become President. Now some of this may be hyperbole, but this isn’t. ‘M Bergman’s’ summary is “Incentives. Give me a break!”

Blogger ‘tubette‘ (Avg 5.00) makes a succinct statement, which is right to the point. In the context of health insurance/care reform, ‘tubette’ says: “well first of all if you want something done to help don't

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