› The Audacity of Corruption: Boswell & His Lies
March 16th Leonard Boswell sent out a press release on why he supports health insurance reform quoting President Theodore Roosevelt saying “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain difficult…”
He goes on and says, “[f]or nearly 100 years, we as a country have recognized that there is a need to reform our health care system, but have instead let partisan bickering and politicking trump the health and well-being of our loved ones…
“…It will address the fact that medical expenses are the number one cause of bankruptcy in this country…
“…My priority has always been to make sure that the needs of all Iowans are addressed in final health insurance legislation…
“…Just last month, 80,000 individual policyholders in Iowa were faced with premium hikes averaging 18 percent…
“…Small business owners have been unable to hire additional employees because they can’t afford the increase in insurance costs.”
Yet another great example of the audacity of corruption.
Leonard Boswell has done nothing but politicize healthcare along with his left standing hypocrite friends. They claim to address issues like medical bankruptcy, high insurance costs and quality of care issues yet in our own VA Hospitals currently run by the government they’ve done nothing but mismanage the entire process to the detriment of our Veterans. This bill will do nothing to control costs. You can’t lower premiums when costs are rising for the manufacturers and expect anything to happen. This will lead to higher consumption rates and higher costs.
Leonard Boswell claims that he has always been working to ensure Iowans are addressed in “final” health insurance legislation. Is that why he stood by and said nothing when Obama, Reid and Pelosi were making threats to some and bribing others to agree to this debacle of a bill? Leonard stopped caring about Iowa and stopped voting for Iowa long before now.
Leonard Boswell uses fear-mongering tactics arguing that 80,000 Iowans saw insurance premium hikes this year yet they are the ones that are not allowing interstate competition to lower those costs. This is what happens when you have a government regulated monopoly.
Leonard Boswell claims that the reason small businesses can’t hire new people because of the costs of insurance. Has he forgotten we are in the middle of a recession and that the cost of a new salary is much more daunting than health insurance? Unemployment is not tied to healthcare costs. It is tied to the fact that the economy isn’t growing and won’t grow until Boswell and his colleagues step out of the way.
This bill is nothing but corrupt. Leonard Boswell and his leftist leadership have done nothing but propagate lies and hide facts. These are fabricated lies. Government run healthcare will not decrease costs. Government run healthcare will not increase availability. Government healthcare will not improve quality. Government healthcare will not fix our economy. Government healthcare is unconstitutional! Congress has no right to dictate what I do and don’t do with my body.
Great article and right on the money. You could take out Boswell name and insert the Democratic party and still be right. Since Obama called CBO to the Whitehouse Woodshed, followed quickly by revision of CBO numbers for the senate bill, I don’t have any faith in their numbers. They appear to say what they are told to say since then.
The official Democrat position is, “WE DEEM” our bill much cheaper by an official non vote of the house which did not vote on the senate version but we did vote on it by the deem method of not voting.
As usual, I disagree. You're making some pretty shaky assumptions here. Actually, most of these assertions are backed up by data gathered both before and after the recession started. Cost and accessibility issues are huge factors in hiring, bankruptcy and other points he mentioned. More than 60% of all bankruptcies are due to medical issues, and more than 80% of those people had insurance that failed to pay their medical bills.
How does this make Boswell corrupt? I don't get it.
Claire, Dave never refuted the bankruptcy numbers, he said that this bill won't lower costs. Meaning this bill won't fix any bankruptcy problems.
Insurance costs are not the reason people are not hiring. I have yet to meet anyone that is using that as an excuse to not hire. They aren't hiring because we are in a recession and they can't take on the risk of a new salary and beneftis. But believe me, the burden of a salary is significantly higher than insurance costs.
The fact is this: This healthcare bill promotes higher consumption rates. Higher consumption rates increase costs. You can't just block premium hikes to lower costs. All that will do us bankrupt the insurance industry because costs will still be rising with demand. The ONLY way to lower insurance costs is to decrease demand.
The arguments Congress and Obama are using are moot. They don't fix anything. All they do is set up the insurance industry for failure. Yes there are things that need to be fixed but they don't address any of them. So yes, Boswell and everyone else that votes for this bill is corrupt b/c they have misconstrued the facts, they have attacked the truth and they have yet to even read the bill.
Just because you haven't personally met anyone who this was an issue for, does not make it so.
Does decreasing demand for health insurance really solve any problems? Preventative care is more voluminous on a spreadsheet but costs far less in the long run. Recent studies show that the high cost of cancer care is the number-one driver of exploding health-case costs.
As usual, I disagree. You're making some pretty shaky assumptions here. Actually, most of these assertions are backed up by data gathered both before and after the recession started. Cost and accessibility issues are huge factors in hiring, bankruptcy and other points he mentioned. More than 60% of all bankruptcies are due to medical issues, and more than 80% of those people had insurance that failed to pay their medical bills. Here is an article from the very conservative Washington Post: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/health-care-refo...
Also about medical costs prohibiting hiring: http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/money_politics/...
You guys need to get of your republican Fox News bubble and get an education.
Fact: Decreasing demand for healthcare is guaranteed to decrease healthcare costs. No way around it. And when we pay less for something we need we always consume more.
Also Claire, there's no need to make malicious attacks by calling me uneducated. In fact, I was educated at the very institution you work for. So either your colleagues don't know how to teach or your having to resort to unsound personal attacks. Which is it?