When will employer�s wake up and
quit taking the heat from employees for the ridicules rate increases by the
health insurance industry. Both need to put the blame squarely on
the group causing it � The Insurance Monopoly! The next time an insurance
agent tells your business the rates went up � get rid of the agent! The
next time any elected board or council presents you with rates that exceed the
published MCHA rates (the guaranteed rate used for individuals who have been
declined by an insurance company for health reason) vote them out of
office. The next time an employee complains about their healthcare
insurance cost give them the money and both they and you will get more value
for less money and be much happier. The providers aren�t getting
the windfall. Employers and employees are getting the shaft. Check
the top salaries of the �non-profit� insurance companies, the new metro
clinics and administrative centers they are able to build, their vast
advertising budgets and we love you touch and feel ads. If the wellness
programs save money then give us lower rates.
And maybe if all of us get mad
enough we might even find that empowerment of the work force will not only
provide better healthcare, at a lower cost and with a whole lot less
aggravation. Providers would much rather work for us than the insurance
companies.
And if the drug companies want to
fight the governor then let�s ask our Native American brothers and sisters to
use their Sovereign Nation status and put drug stores next to every casino
with wholesale drugs purchased through the Canadian tribes or even
manufactured by the tribes in the �Sovereign Nations�. Do the Sovereign
Nations need Patent permission?
Outside the box again --- but
wouldn�t that create some competition in the market place!
Paul Double
