(crossposted at FightingLiberals)
The nerve of some in Congress clearly knows no bounds! The wretched Mitch McConnell (statements like this mean that he doesn't deserve the term Senator):
"the key to a bipartisan bill is not to have a government plan in the bill."
Got a few questions for you, Mitch old pal:
- Why is your life worth more than mine?
(more questions for pal Mitch below the fold)
- Why is your family's peace of mind in case of illness worth more than mine?
- You are my employee, are you not?
- You get excellent quality health care as a result, do you not?
- You represent my interests, right?
- Right?!!!
How dare you well-fed congressional robber barons stand in the way of every single person in America, whether they've lived their lives well or badly, whether they are in debt or not, whether they've been sterling capitalists or not, having health care as good as yours as a human, American given! Health care is not supposed to be a system of punishment, some remnant of twisted puritanical thinking! Full access to quality health care is a key moral marker of a sane society, not a tool of corporate manifest destiny!
How dare you lie through your teeth about the obvious fact that the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies will pay lip service to anything to avoid real competition, because if there is a public option, many of them will go down and many more will be forced to deal ethically with the public - who are, by the way, their fellow Americans!
Think I'm exaggerating about the 'lying through their teeth' part? Bill Moyers asks the tough questions on this subject: the answers are no surprise.
How dare you deny the obvious: that health care shouldn't be a commercial enterprise in the first place, that once again, you're trying to make sure that your cocktail party capitalism triumphs over the health, the lives of people who are just as worthy of quality care as you.
Your problem is that you and your corporate owners think we're too stupid to do anything about it. Well you're wrong about that. We're going to keep on telling the real story, so that the American people understand that, while not a panacea, quality health care should be a given, and the ideal way to make that happen is taking commerce out of the health business altogether: and at minimum, a 'robust public option' as Darcy says.
And of course, ahead of the curve as always is my political hero, Gov. Howard Dean, MD: his new book covers healthcare and politics, and on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 you can talk with him about our prospects of reforming both, by signing up here.
If you agree that we need to fight for single payer and make sure Step 1, the public option, is robust and serious, not watered down by these reprehensible throwbacks, here's a quick way to help:
Get in touch with your Congresspeople. Calls and faxes seem to register rather more than email, but email at least gets counted yay or nay, by all accounts.
People like Mitch McConnell and his corporate masters are trying to get away with murder. They think they're going to win.
Don't let them.