I think everybody should cancel their health insurance. You heard me – cancel. Cancel it to protest the mery-go-round rate increases and the squeezing of the last drop of blood out of that onion.

Let me try to paint a picture for you. Take one middle-age woman in good health. Give her health insurance thru her small employer. Then raise her rates each year until the employer can no longer pay and has to start charging the employee. Example – Year 1 – $359.00/mo. Year two – $373.00/mo. Year three – $500/month. Year four – $580/month! And this is for a healthy person! So the employee goes out on her own and gets a cheaper, higher deductible policy which she is waiting with bated breath for the rates to go up again after the first of the year.

What is happening is the person with the insurance is paying for the person that can no longer afford insurance. The insured person is bled like a stuffed pig until she/he can no longer afford insurance and then joins the ranks of the un-insured and then is paid for by the next person in line with insurance until that person can no longer afford insurance, etc. etc.

So, I say – everybody just cancel their insurance now and get it over with and we’ll all be on a level playing field!!

Footnote: This probably is not of too much interest to younger men as their rates are a lot cheaper than us women who actually use medical services for disease prevention and go see a doctor when something isn’t right.