We need health care like the U.S. Congress

     Congressman Pete Olson, (R-Sugar Land), was taken to the George Washington University Hospital after a fainting episode at the House gym and treated for heart problems by doctors who inserted a pacemaker into his chest. The press release is here.

      Thank goodness that Pete Olson has good health insurance. Too bad the rest of us don’t.

     Pete may not know this yet, but he has now joined the ranks of the uninsurable. When he leaves Congress, no health insurance company will touch him, or if one does write him a policy, it will cost a small fortune and the heart will be excluded as a “pre-existing condition”.

     It is now in the Congressman's best interest to legislate for Universal Health Coverage, or at the minimum a legislative overhaul of insurance law that will prohibit insurance companies from "cherry picking" who and what medical conditions they will insure.

     Congressman, join those of us who advocate for health care for all. Do it for your family, and our families, too.