If you really want to change something, you don’t ask permission first. You go ahead and do it, and then ask for forgiveness.
The reasons for overhauling the health care system are well established. No one (outside of those who work in the health insurance industry) disputes them.
- Too many people aren’t covered by insurance because they (a) can’t afford it, (b) are considered uninsurable due to their health, or (c) are unemployed or under employed (see (a))
- Health insurance costs are already too high and rising faster than salaries.
- Health insurance companies too often disqualify or drop subscribers due to pre-existing or newly discovered serious conditions
This is unconscionable. It cannot be allowed to stand. And yet, instead of doing something about it, our legislators are still asking "permission" from their constituencies in the form of town halls, surveys, and polls.
Instead of acting, are we arguing about non-sensical things such as the non-existent coverage for abortions – which is a moral, not a medical issue, while nearly 6,000 women die from the complications of pregnancy in the US each year
Instead of acting, we are too frightened that change will allow the "libruls" to kill off the old and sick, (while forgetting that these are the same people without which we would not have Social Security, Meals on Wheels, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Family Medical Leave Act.)
Instead of acting, we are debating the cost of reform while we (meaning the taxpayers) continue to pay $100 billion every year for medical care for the uninsured, and that cost keeps going up. The Congressional Budget Office has issued this statement:
The federal budget is on an unsustainable path, primarily because of the rising cost of health care.
Finally, instead of acting, the country with the "best health care system in the world" ranks 28th in life expectancy , 29th in infant mortality, and 116th in death rates..
Democrats and Republicans with a brain: get off your asses and get this done! Remember that your job is NOT, as Rush Limbaugh says, to get re-elected. Your job is to be a public servant and act in the best interest of the people. You are wasting our time and our money while people die for lack of medical care. Get back to Washington and do what you are paid to do and took an oath to carry out. Pass health insurance reform now! Ask forgiveness later.