My rough draft for my editorial on universal health care...help!

[w8liftinglady]

it doesn't seem to make sense some how...help!Please review/suggest

As a new Congress begins work, one area requires immediate attention -especially in Texas. This, of course, is health care. Texas leads the United States in adults and children with no health insurance.Currently, 26.2 percent of adults in Texas and 18.2 percent of children in Texas have NO medical insurance, public or private.

The Center For Disease Control is a wonderful resource for information on healthcare and health in America. Some of the statistics:

- 9% of adults ages 18- 64 have diabetes
- At least 6 of every 10 deaths could be prevented from colon cancer if every adult 50 years or older got tested regularly.
- In 2007, 202,964 women in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer; 40,598 women in the United States died from breast cancer.
- In 2007, 30% of Americans over age 20 had hypertension.
- The number of people on transplant waiting lists as of 1/08/11 - 110,168 Americans

In each of these cases, access to early diagnosis, treatment and adequate pharmaceuticals is the key to survival and quality of life.

Unfortunately, healthcare is the first subject to be challenged by the new Congress.Instead of discussing this extreme need for our nation,talks are rampant about "Repealing Obamacare"... with no alternative offered.

As we prepare to celebrate the life of a great American, never forget one of his most passionate causes."Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." If he were alive today, I am confident Martin Luther King,Jr would support Universal Health Care.

Dr. King was wise beyond his years.As a nation,we would all benefit by learning from him.

[Lint Head]

1. Universal health care would be profitable for corporate carriers.

Medicare is administered by private insurers like Atena, Cigna, BCBS and Cahaba.

They spend millions bidding for Medicare contracts and protesting bids for Medicare contracts. This information is all
publicaly available on the GAO website. http://www.gao.gov/search?search_type=Solr&o=0&facets=a%3A2%3A{s%3A4%3A%22site%22%3Bs%3A12%3A%22Publications%22%3Bs%3A7%3A%22subsite%22%3Bs%3A9%3A%22Decisions%22%3B}&q=highmark

Medicare for all would be good for business.

[w8liftinglady]

2. PNHP would probably disagree with that.

http://pnhp.org/

The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $8,160 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 50.7 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered.

This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $400 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.