Health Care Reform

It's about time. We are the only industrialized nation in the world that cannot seem to understand that private insurance companies do not provide insurance to anyone but their CEO's and stockholders. Why should we be SO far behind the rest of the world because we have such a big hangup on labels. It might be SOCIALISTIC and (say it isn't true!) that would mean that ALL people might have a fighting chance. Imagine the nerve--poor people getting the same chance and quality of care that rich people get........What is the world coming to? During the Bush adminstration, the propaganda was that people who went backrupt couldn't handle money, were lazy welfare abusers, had no work ethic, etc (of course that went along with 'people who live under bridges like their lifestyle), but now, as many of us suspected, we know that 61% of bankruptcies happen because of a single catastrophic medical event and many of those people had 'insurance'. Of course, between the premiums and the deductibles and the 'out of pocket expenses' and the services 'not covered', insurance did not insure them against anything! It is a placebo for the middle class. The only people who come out ahead here are the private insurance companies so having a health insurance policy means nothing. I work with people from Canada and, believe me, when the topic turns to our health care system or lack of health care system, they just can't imagine why we are so blasted stupid! I can't either. All the crap that the 'opposition' (and you know who they are) wants us to believe is that sometimes you might have to 'stand in line for medical care'. Well, we stand in line now and there are no guarantees that we will get care at all, but there is a chance that while we are standing in line that our home is getting foreclosed on. A difficult decision to make---my housing or my health. What a deal! It's time to put stupid phobias about labels behind us and grow up--call it humanism or anything you want--and just pass the legislation that the President has outlined and let us go forward. If we can afford a stupid boondoggle war started by an absolute idiot and supported by the same, we sure as hell can afford universal health care --- yes, even government sponsored. The South wouldn't let go of blatant racism until the federal government stepped in. The country will be in the grip of the insurance industry unless the same thing happens!