I worked for an insurance company health and disability and I can say for a fact my performance was based on ridering insured’s or me rating them at a higher premium.

I feel we need to get people who have worked in insurance to help with what type of insurance we need. I am not talking about the big wigs I mean someone like me who has worked in it, and no, I am not bitter. I loved my job well my co-workers anyway.

We need doctors, lawyers and ex employees of insurance to come up with the plan. As all of the knowledge put together could come up with a better plan then a politician.

The same Republican law makers that are fighting so vehemently against a public option get 72%-75% of their Health Insurance paid with tax dollars. In other words, WE pay over 70% of their health insurance including family coverage! Aside from how little they pay, their insurance is the same as what is offered to the general public. That information (and more) is available at factcheck.org.

We can't expect any person from congress, who pays for only 25% of their health care costs and receives campaign contributions from companies likely to be affected by health care reform, to take the action necessary to make health care more affordable. Once again, the people of this country are being cast aside in favor of large corporations with deep pockets. If Ryan, and many others like him, are not willing to stand up for the people they represent then we should elect others that will.

I have seen many petitions from different groups who have their own agenda which those who sign are generally unaware of. So what does this petition really mean??? Who doesn't want STRONG reform? The problem is no one has proposed anything even close to strong reform. Putting all the blame on one small piece of the puzzle, health insurance, and then proposing MORE health insurance as the solution is pure insanity. All it will do is add a huge expense and more government control. How will this provide more affordable quality healthcare???

There are many solutions that could and should be implemented for ALL the causes of our healthcare crisis with far less effort and expense than taking government control of health insurance, AND they would actually have an impact on cost and quality of healthcare! The problem is that our elected leaders would first have to admit that they are clueless on what to do, and that cost shifting and slight of hand for the sake of political victory will do nothing to fix real problems. We deserve more, let's start demanding more!

If Ryan were to support a good Democrat plan there'd be no reason to promote him. He's no dummy.

And my guess is that he's less concerned about the $877K, which has been received and spent, than he is about the future campaign dollars he'll achieve by leaving the inefficient insurance industry in the loop.

Jack Lohman ...
http://MoneyedPoliticians.net