Upsetting the Balance

I am one of the countless numbers of Americans who do not have health insurance. I am one of the countless Americans who struggles to stay afloat in this economy. I am one of the countless optomists who believed that our government with a new President could work wonders in righting so many wrongs. I also believed that we, as a people, had sent our representatives to Washington with a mandate for change. We, the people, had spoken. Obviously, some people were not listening to what Obama said about health care reform on the campaign trail.
In recent weeks I have seen more of the ugly truth than I thought existed. I have seen viciousness from a whole new angle, but with the same old purpose...rancor sown for the sake of division and anger shown for the sheer intimidating effect of it. The spindoctors are busy painting their objections with an altruistic brush, but peel off the layers and it is about the division of money and how much of it they may be forced to share with you!
Health care...a right or a privilege? If it is a right, then every vested legal American should have access to it. If it is a privilege, then it is as it is now...only for a privileged few. Don't forget what happened the last time a President dared to challenge the status quo. President and First Lady Clinton made health care reform a priority. Their adversaries made their destruction a priority with Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky. And Health Care was quickly and permanently shifted to the back burner.
When I see and hear all the venom being hissed at President Obama from all the indignant Americans who are worried about the deficit, I wonder where these good people were for the past eight years when two terms of President Bush Jr took the biggest surplus in modern times and turned it into the biggest deficit in history. And during that time, a bogus war was started which resulted in the deaths of innocents who were American, Iraqi and Afghani. These same righteous, indignant Americans were not in any Town Hall meetings, they organized no big protests, there were no petitions, letter-writing campaigns or anti-war email campaigns. The truth is you can send soldiers off to war with no exit strategy and faulty intelligence, you can strip the mortgage industry of all regulations, you can ship jobs overseas and bring illegal workers in...but you can't propose health care reform. If you want to 'let the dogs out'...try to strike a better balance between the 'haves' and the 'have nots'. The snarling dogs will come after you if you upset the balance that they've come to expect; the one that ensures that the majority of the money and profits are weighted in their favor.
I am not saying that I want the government to take over health care, but if the insurance companies are busily bankrupting people and deciding who gets health care and who doesn't, I do want the government to fill in the cracks, close the loopholes, and rescue so many of us from an uncertain future with no health coverage in sight. Perhaps the proposed plan is not perfect. But sit down, stop screaming and playing to the cameras, and come up with an alternate plan. We want reform. We need reform.
Finally, I find it disgusting that Sen McCain, of all people, whose limitless health coverage is a perk of being a Senator and whose wife has googobs of money, would dare to tell the rest of us how he is concerned about how much money the reform would add to the deficit. Again, where has he been for the past eight years? He should be ashamed that the very people he is talking to are in his age group and are the most vulnerable. He is part of a Congress, the majority of whom are privileged, that had no problem funding war, but gags at the prospect of keeping its citizens well. It's obscene that we spend billions killing, but balk at a further deficit to keep people alive. I would say it's sickening...but I am uninsured and can't afford it.


Author: "Native Intelligence"
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