Health Care Reform is NEEDED NOW!
- Minimal basic coverage for the unemployed and uninsured.
- Preventative care to lower future costs
- Restructure Medicare and Medicaid so they don't go bankrupt.
Who could possibly be against this reform?
Republicans!
More Below the Fold, This is a Rant! It is time Democrats in Congress got some balls!
Republicans had control of the last 8 years of the
US political system, with Bush having veto
power for all eight and the GOP with control of the
Congress for 6 years. The result was the almost
complete destruction of the US economy.
The country was on the brink of complete economic collapse
the last quarter of the Bush Administration. An
Administration and party that was in complete
denial that there was a problem with the economy.
It was with the last minute infusion of over $1 Trillion
in a single quarter that saved the country from another
Depression type collapse.
When economic policies almost end in complete
collapse, in my book that means FAILURE! Why
take advice from people who almost destroyed the
very thing America needs to stay strong?
The effects are still being felt 3 quarters later, however
we have steered away from the edge of doom by NEW Democratic
Leadership.
There is no longer talk of the US facing economic collapse,
in fact there is talk of a stock market BULL rally.
Yet Republicans are using everything in their political
arsenal to stop the Democrats and the Country itself
from succeeding.
The lunatic fringe of the GOP are using lies, scare tactics,
hatred and race baiting to focus the attention of the country
away from healing and recovery to more of the same of the last
8 years. Division, strife, class warfare and most recently
thinly veiled race baiting.
The latest obstruction to US recovery is to STOP health care reform.
Under the Bush Administration record number of people entered the
uninsured rolls, the costs associated with the Social Programs
of Medicare, Medicaid have risen unchecked and even increased
due to the one 'FIX' Republicans attempted, the Medicare Prescription
Drug program that did not help anyone who was not insured and
cost $850 Billion a year at it's inception, this figure
will climb as the Baby boomers retire all to give 'Viagra' to the pension
crowd.
The Republicans rather than fixing the health care system actually
have hurried up it's demise. Because of what the Republicans have done,
Medicare and Medicaid will go bankrupt FASTER and the Baby Boomers
will be left with FEWER options if any!
The Democrats are trying to fix this with reform in the form
of preventative care, which will lower FUTURE costs of medical care.
Costs control by forcing the insurance and drug companies to offer
lower priced care through competition.
and finally actually offering Minimal low cost coverage for the uninsured
and unemployed!
Without these changes the fate of Health care will be similar to the
collapse of the economy in the fall of 2008!
However the GOP is using scare tactics similar to the tactics to get
this country into war with Iraq, 'facts' based on lies, half truths
and misinformation to get Americans to vote once again against their best interests Health Care reform!
The GOP is using their shock troops, who still believe that President Obama was not born in the US despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary!
These individuals are now using the same Birther reasoning to shout
abuse at town halls in an attempt to show Congress that America is
against Health care reform. This is a vocal minority that are unreasonable uninformed irrational and conspiracy theorists.
These are the same people who thought....
There were WMD's in 2003 Iraq.
Terri Schiavo was not brain dead.
The was a connection between Iraq and 9/11.
Al qaeda was in Iraq before the Iraq Invasion.
Spying on Americans without a warrant is not against the law.
The White House was not responsible for the Treasonous release
of a covert CIA Operatives identity.
The US did not torture Iraqis, some to death, and if they did it was to protect Americans, not to find a connection between Iraq and 9/11.
Bush did protect Americans from the 9/11 attack
even though several dozen warnings of a pending attack were ignored.
I can go on and on , but lets skip to the latest lunatic fringe
far right conspiracy which once again ignores the truth and the
facts to tell the LIE, Obama is not an Native born American.
The facts, a certified birth certificate and birth announcements
in local papers announcing Obama's birth seem not to matter
to the hate driven core race baiters of the GOP, the fools who believe
ignorance trumps intelligence, and incompetence arrogance and
ignorance are forgivable even if it costs American lives
These are the people now giving advice and opposition on the Health Care solution! The New diversion is a non existent tax debate about middle class tax hikes. Republicans are trying to change the playing field to THEIR advantage.
Enough is enough!
If you want failure as we had the last 8 years, listen to Republicans,
If you want the continued slow recovery and a future! Listen to the
President and the Democrats!