The debate rages…there are setbacks and some forward movement….but if the special interests have their way and no health reform is coming, what can we look forward to in the near future?

We have heard all the arguments pro and con of the health care debate, but there are a few things that will be certain without reform……costs will keep going up, people will DIE and the uninsured will be a drag on the economy.

Rep. Boner, my bad Boehner, has been a staunch critic of reform but this is what happens even in HIS district:

A 22-year-old woman from Oxford, Ohio, died from swine flu on Wednesday. Kimberly Young graduated from Miami University in December and continued to live in Oxford, Ohio, within Minority Leader John Boehner’s congressional distrct. Reports now indicate that after initially getting sick, Young put off treatment because she was uninsured:  (thanx to thinkprogress.com)

There are always horror stories when the health care debate is raging here is another one:

One of the worst abuses of private insurance companies is the practice of using spurious reasons to deny claims. In April, Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez awoke and found her shirt soaked in blood. Realizing that her “her left breast [was] bleeding from the nipple,” she rushed to the emergency room.

Today, CBS-5 reports that this San Francisco Department of Public Health employee has had her claim denied because her insurance company, Blue Shield of California, didn’t consider her situation to be an “emergency.” Even though her doctor told her it was likely a tumor, Blue Shield said that Miran-Ramirez should have known it wasn’t:

But Miran-Ramirez said the real shock came when her insurance company, Blue Shield of California HMO, which had initially approved the claim for the emergency room visit, reversed course and sent her a new bill three months later requiring her to pay the total charges for that visit: $2,791.00.

Once again thanx to thinkprogress.com for the content.

And within the debate are those people that are using the Constitution as an argument to proposed health reform, the tenthers as they are called because they say the 10th amendment says that it should not reform health care.  The worst indication of just how far these dipsticks will go, Sen. Ensign is saying:

A popular right-wing objection to federal health care legislation is that it’s unconstitutional. These “tenthers” argue that since the U.S. Constitution never explicitly gives the federal government the right to regulate health care, the 10th amendment leaves that power to the states. Texas tenthers have held pro-secession rallies, and officials in various states have raised the possibility of legislation to exempt their residents from federal health care.

ENSIGN: We’ve allowed exceptions for religious and various other reasons. But some people hold the Constitution pretty high in their lives, and if they believe that this thing is unconstitutional, and they then say, “I choose not to have health insurance, I’m not going to buy it,” we could be subjecting those very people who conscientiously — because they believe in the U.S. Constitution — we could be subjecting them to fines or the interpretation of a judge, potentially, all the way up to imprisonment. That seems to me to be a problem.

These types just amaze me….they quote and hold-up the Constitution to make their point but yet want to violate the same document to further their agenda…like inserting themselves into people’s private lives….WHAT A PILE OF CRAP!

Everyone needs to decide what it will be in conjunction with the Constitution…either we go by strict adherence to it or it is up for interpretation.  But to fluctuate between the two is just plain IGNORANT!  And I mean that in EVERY sense of the word.