Reform Health Care Reform

Despite the hyperbolic cries of "socialism" from misinformed Limbaugh-listening, Fox 'news'-watching ditto heads, this bill is far too friendly to the corporate insurance industry.

To really bring health care costs down to where it should be in a truly market-driven economy, we need a robust public option or a Medicare buy-in option. Currently, there is very little competition between health insurance companies, as they have divvied up areas and pretty much charge what they want.

This bill, despite the exchanges to be created, will not reign in these greedy companies sufficiently, as their motivation is money, not the health of the American people.

Health care reform has been a long time coming, and the battle this time around has been fierce. The insurance companies and their corporate lobbyists threw everything they had at Congress and at the public to try to sway Congress in order to kill reform and keep things just the way they are.

Thanks to representatives like ours, Congresswoman Doris Matsui of Sacramento, California, we are on the way to true reform.

But please don't stop now. Let's get a public option (or the option to buy into Medicare) done, and that will not only bring down costs, it will insure we keep the "Corporations-First" party in the minority, where they belong.