I am astounded that people are accepting this crappy, deceptive piece of legislation that is a giveaway to the health insurance industry.
My Fellow Citizens:
Once again, you have been duped by those you elected into office to represent your best interests and the mainstream media. For nearly a year, we have all read the headline or watched various TV network news anchors tell us how the debate about health care reform is raging in this country. However, they omitted one VERY important fact: The average citizen had absolutely NO input into this now 2,700-page ransom payment to the health care insurance industry. What the public is currently discussing is nothing more than the paltry offerings that were left after Congress took their legalized bribes (lobbying/campaign contributions) and let the very industry that needs to be reformed, due to their deliberate abuses, write the legislation meant to keep them in check. Unfortunately, that is the order of business in the governance of this country -- let the foxes guard the hen house.
I find it very disturbing the average citizen in this country is either unaware or is in favor of one of the provisions of the current health care "reform" bill mandating that Americans purchase PRIVATE health care insurance or be fined. How is it that President Obama went from being a champion of universal health care to providing the health care insurance industry with captive customers? News flash: We don't need health care insurance, we need HEALTH CARE!
Politicians, health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations will drag us all into the grave fighting against providing EVERY person in this country with medical care. It's a pretty stupid position for them to take considering that they ALL rely on us as consumers and they are more interested in money than in wellness. And that's where I feel this debate needs to start. We are now in the 21st century at the pinnacle of scientific/technological progress and yet we have bought into the notion that our health/illnesses are something from which to gain profit for others. There is no disputing that EVERYONE needs medical care, both preventive and intervening. Yet, the average person cannot afford to pay for a routine medical examination because the cost is astronomical. Why is that? There are more than enough people, knowledge, equipment and facilities to make medical care accessible to all but there is always the excuse that there is not enough money to pay for universal health care. This is another lie that can easily be exposed. Our government spends over $663 billion in defense (war), $19 billion in politician pork projects, and over $6 TRILLION in government-sponsored (taxpayer) corporate bailouts (2008-2010). Source: www.usdebtclock.org
If you don’t believe your government is playing us for fools, let me ask you these important questions:
This health care "reform" bill affects citizens the most. Why don’t we have input into its contents and put it up for a ballot vote?
Why are we letting politicians tell us we can’t afford universal health care when we are the ones paying for their "Cadillac" health insurance plans?
What is the purpose of a health insurance company other than to make profits off your premium payments while they deny life-saving medical procedures and treatments to ensure that those profits are not decreased by your medical condition?
The U.S. government spends our hard-earned money on everything else except us. Now, they want us to increase our contribution to perpetuating an utterly broken and amoral health insurance industry that has proven it is not concerned with health and wellness at all.
Debate that, America!