Reasonable insurance should be a no-brainer

The insurance industry is desperate to stop us from having the choice of a public option in order to protect their high profit margins. The four-page advertising insert in the Aug. 24 Gazette must have cost a pretty penny, but I suppose it's just a drop in the bucket to an industry that reportedly spends $1.4 million a day on Washington lobbyists.

Have you ever been denied care that a doctor deems necessary, but an insurance bureaucrat does not? Before my husband passed away, he had Parkinson's disease for over 20 years. Our insurance company would not approve him to see a neurologist the last two years of his life; before that, we paid for one out of pocket.

My premiums have been raised year after year (probably to buy more lobbyists in Washington). I only work because I need health insurance. I am 63, not yet eligible for Medicare, and because I have pre-existing conditions (high blood pressure), I cannot buy private insurance. If I lose my job, as so many people have, I lose my health care. I will then become a taxpayer burden.

Insurance available to all at a reasonable price is a no-brainer! What we have now is terrible.

Deborah Musa

Cedar Rapids