http://www.theledger.com/article/20100423/NEWS/4235066/1003/news01?Title=Florida-Positioned-to-Privatize-Medicaid

Florida politicians are once again, in their "good-ol'-boy," business-as-usual way of legislating, kowtowing to all the private insurance companies WHO SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTRIBUTE TO POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

"The Florida GOP, its candidates and their fundraising committees received $1.4 million from HMOs like Aetna, Humana, Centene and others. That's three times the $440,948 given to the Democratic Party, its candidates and their committees."

WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, ARE (LITERALLY) SICK AND TIRED OF LAWS BEING PASSED WHICH HURT US, BUT ARE PASSED SIMPLY BECAUSE OF BRIBERY AND POLITICAL PARTISAN GAME-PLAYING.

PRIVATIZING MEDICAID IS JUST ANOTHER PLOY TO INTERFERE WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HEALTHCARE PLAN. PRIVATIZING MEDICAID DOES NOTHING MORE THAN LINE THE POCKETS OF PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND HEALTHCARE CORPORATIONS.

GOVERNOR CRIST, YOU NEED TO VETO THIS BILL.

PRESIDENT OBAMA, YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING NOW TO STOP STATES FROM PASSING LAWS WHICH CIRCUMVENT PUBLIC OPTIONS.

CMS STANDS FOR CENTER FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID--NOT JUST MEDICARE!

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST PUT A STOP--ONCE AND FOR ALL--TO THE PRACTICE OF POLITICAL BRIBERY.

WE WANT YOU TO FIX MEDICARE...IT'S A MESS...BEFORE EXPANDING IT. WE WANT YOU TO PROHIBIT CMS FROM CONTRACTING WITH PRIVATE COMPANIES SUCH AS FIRST COAST SERVICE OPTIONS, INC., TO HANDLE MEDICARE CLAIMS, AS THEY'VE MISHANDLED AND DENIED EVERY ONE OF MY CLAIMS THAT THEY'VE TOUCHED THUS FAR.

WE WANT YOU TO PREPARE CMS FOR FUTURE EXPANSION BY HIRING AND TRAINING THE MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS TO WORK FOR CMS (REMEMBER THE TVA AND HOW SUCCESSFUL THAT WAS??).

WE WANT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROHIBITING PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES, HEALTHCARE CORPORATIONS, OR ANYONE ELSE IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY FROM CONTRIBUTING TO POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS.

WE WANT YOU TO PROHIBIT STATES FROM PRIVATIZING MEDICAID, WHICH WILL ONLY HURT MEDICAID RECIPIENTS.

WE DON'T WANT TO SEE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA END UP DISSOLVING AS DID THE SOVIET UNION, BUT THAT'S WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THE NONSENSE GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY DOESN'T STOP. IF SOMETHING ISN'T DONE ABOUT THIS NOW, THEN THOSE STUPID FASCISTS DISGUISED AS "TEABAGGERS" WILL TEAR THIS COUNTRY TO SHREDS. AND WHY HAVEN'T YOU PROSECUTED THE "TEABAGGERS" WHO ABUSED THE DISABLED AT THEIR "TEA PARTIES, WHICH IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE--A HATE CRIME?"

PRIVATIZING MEDICAID AND ALLOWING PRIVATE CONTRACTORS TO HANDLE MEDICARE CLAIMS PUTS ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF NOT ONLY HEALTHCARE, BUT IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

WE WANT POLITICIANS WHO ACT IN OUR BEST INTERESTS, NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF CORPORATIONS AND POLITICAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS.

WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THE OLIGARCHICAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHICH STRANGLES THE UNEMPLOYED, THE SICK, THE POOR, THE DISABLED.

WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF STATE AGENCIES, SUCH AS THE FL DEPT OF HEALTH/AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION WHO REFUSE TO PROSECUTE AND HEAVILY FINE HEALTHCARE CORPORATIONS FOR MEDICAID & MEDICARE FRAUD.

WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF RETHUGLICAN POLITICIANS SUCH AS BILL MCCOLLUM, FL'S ATTORNEY GENERAL, WHO'S SO BUSY RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR AND WASTING TAXPAYER MONEY ON TRYING TO SUE TO STOP PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HEALTHCARE PLAN, THAT HE CAN'T--AND WON'T--DO HIS JOB ANYMORE--NOT THAT HE EVER DID. (I'VE REPORTED MEDICAID FRAUD TO HIS AGENCY BEFORE, AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WAS DONE.)

WE ARE ALSO SICK AND TIRED OF DEMOCRAP POLITICIANS SUCH AS ALEX SINK, FL'S CFO/INSURANCE COMMISIONER, WHOSE OFFICE OF "FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY" DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WHEN I REPORTED GEICO VIOLATIONS, AS WELL AS THE MEDICAID FRAUD VIOLATIONS.

THE DEMOCRAPS & RETHUGLICANS ARE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN, I.E., THE SAME BROKEN SYSTEM WHICH IS MOTIVATED ONLY BY CORPORATE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.

ALLOWING POLITICIANS TO ACCEPT BRIBES, EUPHEMISTICALLY REFERRED TO AS "POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS" PUTS ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

WE WANT THE UNITED STATES TO REMAIN THE "UNITED STATES." WE DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS COUNTRY SPLINTER APART AS DID THE SOVIET UNION, SO PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NOW!

CAROL TUCKER, MA