The business structure in our country has become a second government dictating to and invading our lives.
In health care, the insurance companies have the controlling hand telling us who lives or dies. Just look at the record. When an insurance company drops or denies coverage, they walk away from a contract with the individual, and in some cases the courts side with the individual, but often too late as that person has died.
However, the proof of who actually runs our country is self-evident when the largest corporations (the financial industry) were going belly-up, and vast amounts of money were dumped in to the system with no accountability. When an effort is made to provided support for the consumers of our nation -- the engine of our economy -- there are shouts of interference and waste of the nation's money.
When the government -- we are the government -- tries to give some recourse from these insurance companies and control back into our hands, we realize we have become an oligarchy.
Michael Ferguson, Augusta
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Good article Michael...
Want to talk about "government and insurance companies" and the financial industry...well a veteran, in service to his country while operating a AH 54 (attack helicopter) in hostile airspace crashes and burns, but survives to be connected with loved ones stateside. Subsequently, he doesn't survive BUT because he didn't expire at the crash, his insurance policy questions the manner of his passing. (On-site versus from injuries) A loophole U think. Thats right! The question: How can they possibly get away with it? Business own the government, especially the financial sector. 750 billion to them, but a citizen who owes the IRS $24.00 may get a call at work. Wow! Money buys politicians who make laws that benefit the financial sector. And one correction to the LTE: Business is not becoming second government, its already the first.
Michael, please, get your information from someplace other than CNN, NPR or the NYTimes. The all chant the same mantra and they're all wrong. It's the type of unity we all hope will change.
Mike, you are obviously correct; lobbyists drive Congress. One just has to look at the largest donators to see whose voice is heard.
Michael, I believe that because of our strong individual beliefs and our inability to change those beliefs, we are doomed for failure. We the people go willingly to polling places to vote for candidates, not because they believe as we do, rather because they are the party chosens. And to compound our ineptitude, we do little or no checking on the candidates, we rely on the input of others that we don't question because that would make us appear to be "uneducated" on the issues, to our friends. I wonder how many people have really researched the issues with an open mind and thought them thru? Yes there is a strong bond between business and Government, but we made it so with our desire to make the party powerful. As an example of this, just look at who we elect. I would dare say that lawyers in this country are the most despised organization there is, and yet we constantly send them to power as our representatives, and why, because they represent the party.
Insightful letter, Mr. Ferguson. Too many of us seem to forget that insurance is a game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.