Originally published February 27 2005
Colorado State Representative Dorothy Butcher continually tries, and fails, to pass auto insurance reform, says columnist
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
In Colorado, State Representative Dorothy Butcher continually tries to bring insurance reform to the state, but every bill she proposes is shot down in committee. Her continual crusade to help people get health and auto insurance has been a failing cause and even her bill to stop insurance companies from tying insurance rates to credit rating was killed. Butcher keeps trying to say that there is an insurance crisis in the state, but nobody is listening.
Right here, see, Dorothy Butcher is fuming a bit.
Yet another insurance bill of hers has just fallen face-first into the legislative dust.
Basically, it said that rather than fine people $500 if they're found not to have auto insurance after they are pulled over, make them take that money and buy six month's worth of insurance.
I've long believed auto and, particularly, health insurance - how they have become unaffordable for most Americans - will ultimately become the center of real debate and the focus of the political divide in this country.
"I've been screaming about insurance in this country for nearly 30 years now," Dorothy Butcher says, "going back to when I worked at US West for - what?
It is why for three years now she has proposed insurance reform, only to see it die a painful death not on the House floor, but in a lonely, desolate committee room.
It was Dorothy Butcher who taught me that my car insurance payment isn't based solely on my driving record or where I live so much as it is on my credit record.
Butcher says the woman actually was paying more for auto insurance, despite her credit score, than a man from the same district who had a drunken- driving conviction on his record.
"The big issue before us are the underinsured, those who would pay for insurance if it were more affordable.
They don't because they have to make decisions whether it is better to feed the children or pay high and even more higher insurance rates."
She pulls even more documentation showing some 38 percent of state workers are not covered by medical insurance simply because they cannot afford its monthly cost.
There should be some mechanism in place that keeps a head of household from losing everything if he or she doesn't have insurance when one of the kids gets badly ill.
It is, at the very least, a comfort that in Colorado, a politician like Dorothy Butcher is trying to slug it out for the rest of us.
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