If you think the Health Care crisis is the driving issue behind the current right-wing political violence taking place at town halls all over America you need to think again. The only ones on the right who really give a damn about health care are the corporate elites--and they don't care about health care, they care only about profits and will do anything, at any political or social cost, to keep them coming.
Health care reform is a no-brainer. Anyone (including the Republican leadership) with an average IQ knows that our system is way too expensive for those with coverage and totally exclusionary for those without. Look at any other leading democracy in the world and you will find a health care system that costs less and does more for a higher percentage of its people. But this is just common sense. What possible value does a private HMO/Insurance Company add to the medical process. They are in business to make money off of your illness, period. What do they do for this money? Nothing! How do they help? They don't. In fact, they get in the way. They're at best just a pooling source of funds to provide minimal services for maximum profit skimmed of the top without any other functional contribution to the health care process. There are many less expensive, non-profit ways to pool money. Anyone honestly addressing this issue can see this non-profit pooling process successfully going on everywhere else in the world--call it socialism if you want, the name is meaningless without the result! If America's current system isn't a form of socialism for the Heath Insurance Industry it certainly is giving away a large percentage of the American GNP to someone who provides absolutely no service to anyone what-so-ever except its shareholders!
So, given the undeniable truth of the above, healthcare reform following Obama's electoral mandate regarding the health care issue should logically involve a give-and-take political process promoted by the Democrats and critiqued by the Republicans regarding ways to reduce profit overhead and increase pooling resources without creating economic turmoil by instantly dissolving the insurance industry. This process should produce competitive public options and regulatory guarantees over time to reduce costs and provide better services to more people. This isn't the ideal fix or even the most logical fix, but in our capitalistic democracy this is the way things usually work when they work at all.
But this is not what is happening. There is no discourse taking place at all. The real issues of cost and pooling have been replaced by patent lies about euthanasia and incredibly bizarre scare tactics concerning socialized bureaucracy by the Republican leadership. Their marching orders are to kill health care reform, period. Refuse to even address the real issues. Send out zealots to disrupt group meetings. Challenge the President's authority by phony birth certificates. Raise the flag of racism. Take the small group of right wing zealots and empower their barely controlled racism and brutality with the official backing of the Republican Party! Why? Not because they don't in their heart-of-hearts know that health care reform should be done. But because they don't care. They have devolved their party into a political crisis the like of which hasn't happened since the Whigs self destruction in the 1850's over the issue of slavery! They have lost their power and they want it back! They're scared as hell. Therefore, the Republican leadership (or lack there of) has officially decided to secede from the democratic political process and empower their minority wingnuts and their media tool (FOX News) to incite undemocratic revolution in America through the increasing us of incessant media lies and brutal force to disrupt discussion at public events. Create enough fear and hatred to deal Obama a defeat. Anything to defeat Obama. The end now justifies the means for these people and, by the way, it's so incredibly convenient for them to utilize the health care industry as a political front to fund these undemocratic tactics while they are at it.
So, don't be fooled into believing that health care is the issue when you see all the violence and hear all the lies. It's much, much more than that. For the elite corporate and Republican leaders, it's a last ditch effort to undemocratically wrest power back. For the wingnuts that believe in the lies and are empowered by the elite leadership to brutally attack their own democratic life style against their own better interests, it's a chance to cleanse this nation of weak-minded liberal democracy with their pious, ever-growing racial fear, hatred and fascism.