There’s a reason GM and Chrysler are bankrupt. They were known as healthcare companies who happened to make cars, while GM in Canada made cars for $3000 less per unit due to their single payer healthcare. The old Wall St. saw was “What’s good for GM is good for America”. Well, they are now bankrupt. America cannot compete with Moore’s disastrous non reform of healthcare, I consider his advocacy of the Massachusetts mandated extortion of residents to be unconscionable. And please don’t cite all the poor in MA. who’ve been enrolled for very expensive “free” care. I’m paying their bills which would be a small fraction under a single payer system that I would gladly then foot. Additionally, any 8 year old could have taken the state checkbook and enrolled the entire free care pool. There’s a reason the state calls their top tier healthcare policies “Gold”-as it is a gold mine for insurers siphoned straight out of residents pockets.
http://masshealthlawtruth.org/mass_health_mandate_truth_vs_spin_1.ht.

Our leaders, Moore especially so, wish to do to our country what Massachusetts did to us. (see facts here: http://masshealthlawtruth.org/ ) They’ll soon try to sell us the “Massachusetts Mandate” for health insurance. A victim of this fraud, I learned you’ll become a criminal if you don’t buy from their suppliers-the insurance companies. You’ll be charged with tax evasion and fined thousands yearly for not buying. Your intelligence and patriotism they will question when they say… “we need a uniquely American solution”. How American is a health care dictatorship? One-third of extorted premiums fund insurance bureaucracy, profits and wasteful duplicate staffing of thousands of companies. Politicians will prey on human sentiments to insure the needy. They won’t reveal you’re subsidizing the poor via massive monthly premiums to cover costs, insurers’ profit margins and bloated bureaucracies feeding at your trough. Insurers costs are minimized by keeping your costs sky high. Your policy is so full of holes, no legislator would accept it. A 49 year old MA. couple earning just $43,716 GROSS, must buy a $7,000 policy. It’s not real insurance: $2000 deductible each, 20% co-pays and layers of red tape-a nightmare. Real insurance for a family (which Politicians and single payer insured Canadians enjoy) costs $13,914 to $21,000+/year. To compete with their single payer Canada recently offered private insurance, the type Mr. Moore is selling. Not ONE policy was sold: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/03/30/mtl-health-insurance-interest-0330.html
Single-payer is our police and fire departments, public works and military. Insurers and their shills are a tireless lot, fueled by untold sums, they’ve co-opted the political process as bankers did leading to economic disaster.
Big insurance hopes to do to the nation what they’ve done to us, success means it’ll be the greatest redistribution of your cash to private industry ever fashioned by politicians.

And as well, how much in campaign contributions has Sen. Moore received from the industry?

Senator Moore,

I dont know what rock you are living under these days, but most of us know that the MA plan has failed, and we pray every day that the national plan:

a) will not resemble the MA plan in the slightest which we see by the various bills isn’t the case – they are the MA plan on steroids, and we take pity the people of this country and know that once they realize they’ve been duped big-time, all hell is going to break loose; and

b) will be HR676 – Expanded and Improved Medicare for All which will provide equitable, affordable coverage for everyone in this country in a fiscally responsible manner unlike the MA plan which meets none of these requirements but instead exploits the majority of the targeted population; or

c) will never be signed into law because the status quo would be better than living under a decree as oppressive and regressive as the MA plan.

So, when you say all of us in MA, SPEAK FOR YOURSELF. You have absolutely no right to speak for the individuals, families and small businesses in the Bay State who have been caused much financial harm and stress from this bureaucratic morass which does not deliver affordable, quality care for all and resembles nothing more than coercion and collusion on the grandest of scales. Just who do you think you are?

For those who wish to know the truth about the MA plan, please read Trudy Lieberman’s latest story in her Massachusetts series at http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/health_reform_lessons_from_mas_3.php?page=all and be sure to read Parts I, II and III in the archives which can be reached by clicking on the hyperlink in the opening paragraph. You will also enjoy her Baucus Watch series at the same site.