Health care reform: congress needs to protect Americans, not insurance companies
by Mark Dunlea, Green Party of New York State As Congress negotiates health care reform, Democratic leaders have put the interests of insurance companies ahead of the needs of American citizens. If Americans want an affordable, quality health care system that enables consumers to choose from whom they receive health care services, private for-profit insurance companies must be eliminated. Michael Mooreís movie SICKO correctly highlighted the problems with insurance companies rather than the problem of the uninsured. While the lack…