If Liz were Queen

One of the biggest lies being passed around by those who support the continued corporate scam that we call “health care” in the USA is the lie that health care reform would hurt rural communities!

It’s rural America that stands to benefit the most from a public option. Not merely because universal access will disproportionately benefit such areas, but because many rural states simply have no competitive market for health insurance. A recent report illustrated that 94 percent of the health insurance markets in the United States are “highly concentrated.” Where is the problem the worst? In small and rural states. Lack of competition means higher premiums, and it also means larger numbers of people being frozen out of access to health care. If you live in a region with only one major provider of insurance, you have no place to go when you get turned down for a preexisting condition.