In a brief report in the WashingtonPost online, the "slowing" trend of health insurance premium increases tells us what we knew: "Federal workers will be among the biggest groups to benefit from this trend next year, paying on average just $2.73. more for coverage out of each paycheck. Most other workers, however, will see a bigger hit."
It is unbelievable that all the talk of budget, savings and the "drain" of different categories of individuals on our health "system" continue to ignore the elephant in the living room: Civil servants, our elected officials have NO incentive to work on behalf of those they represent to improve a health insurance racket that BENEFITS them.
Until civil servants face denials of coverage, ballooning co-payments for medical care, choices reduced to high deductible "pray you don't need it" insurance and continued exclusions for more money, there will be no progress that will reflect the enormous percentage of our population being crushed by our current system.
How can you listen to any representative saying he or she "feels our pain" when real efforts on behalf of the situation are likely to result in a reduction in their own perks? Not likely as experience shows.
I think it is the pinnacle of hypocrisy that we listen to our representatives discuss the conclusions they've reached speaking to physician lobbyists and health insurance lobbyists as they preserve their own packages.
