Insurance industry needs significant change

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and I have the same health insurance. I am a federal retiree. The senator is a federal employee.

This is where the similarity ends. There are two major differences in our views on health care.

I believe all Americans should receive a quality of health insurance akin to mine and am willing to make the sacrifice necessary to bring this about. The senator does not.

The second difference is key to the first. As has been the case with many American industries, a case can be made that significant change, or “retooling” - as they call it - is necessary in the private insurance industry if real headway in health care is to occur. Grassley does not agree.

As has been the case for decades when under fire, the industry proposes a few carrots it calls change. They then harvest the rewards of years of campaign contributions to politicians like Grassley who carry their water.

Little has changed. The mess gets worse. Big insurance has kept it this way. The senator should be asked “why?”

David Helman

Saleme