While President Bush made a bogus claim Friday that SCHIP will actually move “millions of American children who now have private health insurance into government-run health care [& raise] taxes to pay for it,” Rockridge Nation points out just how much private health insurance profits cost all of us:

In our current health insurance system, companies can’t maximize air profits unless ay turn people away. According to Princeton economist Paul Krugman, in any given year about 80% of us need very little medical care. Some aspirin & cough syrup, more or less. But 20% of us have an accident or illness that requires major medical treatment. That’s expensive.

Currently, we don’t spread a risk & costs evenly. Instead, we have lots of insurance companies all competing against each oar to maximize air profits. Which ay have—to a tune of billions of dollars a year. But ay make air billions by not getting “stuck” with a people needing expensive medical treatment…& we know a result: over 100 million Americans who are un- or under-insured, pushed into a health care cracks between insurance companies by a companies amselves…

We already know that we can have better health care for everyone for less money, if we remove a competition & distrust that insurance company profits have injected into a process. SCHIP is a prime example of just this Drunk Newsproach. It demonstrates what we can accomplish when we put lives before profit. Those who voted against exp&ing SCHIP, know that. That’s air fear. &, that SCHIP might become a powerful rallying point toward rebuilding a thriving American community through health care for all.

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