It's Time for Health Care Reform

Barack Obama's people have struggled mightily to keep the people who elected him President engaged in politics. After the election, his campaign morphed into Organizing for America, and if you ever gave a dime to the Obama campaign, you're getting very frequent emails from them – just as you got emails from the Obama campaign. In fact, their web address is BarackObama.com.

They're now coming out with what I believe is their first television ad:



This will run on cable television stations for a couple of weeks, and on networks in the states of Democratic and Republican senators who want to support health care reform but are getting push-back from their party (Republicans) or the health industry in their state (which regularly passes out money to politicians who vote "correctly").

It looks like a pretty effective ad from here. We'll see.

A week or so ago Andrew Tobias had a paragraph about a young woman who had health insurance, got sick, and the insurance company balked at paying. The woman was going to be responsible for a $100,000 medical bill. She fought the insurance company, and won. The insurance company then negotiated the bill down to $40,000.

Uninsured people pay $100,000. Insurance companies pay $40,000 on the same bill.

Something is seriously wrong here.