The Sweeping New Health Insurance System Proposed for U.S. Residents.

According to a recent article published by Natural News, health policy researchers from The Commonwealth Fund have issued a public proposal on behalf of major health insurance companies. Basically, the contents inside this proposal state that all Americans should be required to purchase their own health insurance. In addition to this, they have also designed a mandatory program which includes stiff government penalties for U.S residents who fail to participate.


Not to mention the fact that not only does this program “force” this country’s residents to purchase individual health insurance plans, but it also shows little to no interest towards promoting health awareness and well-being. How do they factor in a mandated program, which requires residents to purchase their own health plans, without providing health education? It seems that Americans are more in tune about issues such as- health education, disease prevention, and nutrition. So what would lead health industry experts to assume that the American people are more dependant upon emergency room visits and prescription drugs and antibiotics, as “reliable healthcare coverage”? It would be a rather wrong assumption to say that Americans don’t care enough to stay healthy, and that we would all wait until we get sick enough, before seeking medical attention.


Which leads us to another hot topic for discussion- “Big Pharmaceutical and Health Care Supply Companies”? These are the guys that rely on people to get sick, so that they can thrive in our American economy. They are profitable because of their success in developing solutions to treat medical conditions. Solutions consisted of products that range from prescription drugs and medications, to healthcare and medical supplies. Their focus is on sustaining a given condition for that moment in time, but in no way do they spend money to research an actual cure or prevention for that same medical condition or disease.


Here are a few resources where you can find additional information on this topic, “Health Insurance and Reform”. They can also be purchased online at website booksellers such as Amazon.com and Borders. These are selected excerpts from books written by leading authors on this important topic:



Excerpt taken from:

“Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America”, by E. Richard Brown


In the absence of a sufficiently independent and militant working-class movement, national health insurance continued to be defeated in the decades that followed. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s the AMA carried on its vehement opposition to any federal intervention into the financing of medical care. Liberal reformers tried to get national health insurance included in the Social Security Act as part of the New Deal response to the Great Depression and the militant organizing among the unemployed and industrial workers.




Excerpt taken from:

“Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System”, by J.D Kleinke


For better or worse, the "free" market will remain our nation's choice for funding health insurance and delivering medical care. Our only hope of fixing the health care system's biggest problems is to enact simple legislative reforms designed with one purpose: to allow the market to provide health insurance more efficiently and affordably. This is a significant and somewhat painful conclusion for the same author who wrote a book as recently as 1998 arguing that managed care would compel the market to reform itself.

In 1994, the political debate over health insurance reform came to a draw, and concluded with an agreement from both sides that change will come about naturally. Since then, there has been an increased trend of numbers in uninsured U.S. residents- about an estimated five million people to date.