The Biggest Health Care Lie of All:
Posted on 04 March 2010
“Our Representatives are struggling hard with this Health Care Issue.”
That’s a lie.
Every single Right Wing Senator whole-heartedly supports single payer Health Care coverage wholly paid for by the Federal Government because he has it. His whole family has it. Obama has it. Dick Cheney has it. All the moderates who struggle with where to position themselves on this issue – they have it. Every Representative in the House who has taken contributions from a pharmaceutical company and can’t find clarity on this issue – he (in a few cases, she) has it too: full government sponsored single payer Health Care coverage. All their employees have it.
They believe in it, alright. And not a single one of them has stopped taking it. Proof is in the nasty pudding.
I’ve tried to point this out for months now. Nobody has seemed particularly concerned. Why? Why are we basically going to live with this kind of inequity? Do we believe these people have somehow earned it, like the CEOs earned all those bonuses? Do we believe they have a right because we elected them?
Why hasn’t a single Senator (or Congressman/woman) offered to give it up and go out on his/her own like so many of the rest of us to find some “great” corporate developed Health Care Plan? Why? Why hasn’t at least one secretary in a government office done it? And if it is such a horribly socialistic thing, why hasn’t the GOP left it en mass, like they’re leaving (in droves now) the concept of unemployment insurance?
And why haven’t there been piles of petitions demanding all these Representatives put the lives where their mouths are? Or why isn’t there a real Tea Party movement along the lines of what was actually going on back there in Colonial Boston?
It’s depressing. It’s tragic. It’s a joke, but I don’t have anything left in me that wants to laugh or even cry about it. What has happened to this country that we have not only allowed this to happen, but we have allowed ourselves now to live with it and (given the Health Care that many of our citizen now – and will – have) die with it?
4 responses to The Biggest Health Care Lie of All:
I feel so much sadness for this, problem is that no one has the courage or voice anymore to cry out. Petitions can be started over the net. That’s for sure, problem: who will follow? People would thinks it’s useless, a hoax, or even not reliable…as usual. I’m in it, would like to start on FB. If no one starts something, nothing will happen. One is the start of everything. I truely know and hope this will work…anyone following?
I start. You can sign by adding. Stephen, perhaps with your excellent writing skills you could help me out for the beginning of the title and text to make people wanna follow, then I’ll make a page, and we’re off.
How about it?
Hope to hear you soon. You can pm me on FB or on my hotmail;
tarzansoad@hotmail.com
Please don’t give up…there a lot of people who need your/our support/help…
I like this piece and definitely agree.
The Republicans know about divide and conquer. For this to happen, our shared humanity and love of neighbor has to win over self interest.
Union members with great coverage have been turned. The Cadillac tax plan got to them.
Small business owners who are paying nothing would have to pay something. Their employees have been told to worry about their jobs, and they bought it.
People who have decent but not wonderful plans have been convinced they have nothing to gain.
Poor people who have no insurance now, and pay nothing for nothing can’t afford to pay something. They just keep on going and hope they don’t get sick.
Insurance companies have a good deal going now. They insure whoever they choose and make great profits. Change?
The rich just want to pay less taxes and dismantle what we have now for the poor.
The elderly have been convinced that containing Medicare spending, as part of paying for the new plan, will hurt them.
So, the Republicans have convinced almost everyone that this plan is evil. Their singular objective is to make sure Obama fails and is a one term President.
The hard sell here is that we must do this because we love our neighbors as ourselves, and each get past our self interest as the Republicans have explained it to us. What we must sell to Obama is that he has to lay down the hammer, and make it happen, in the name of justice and humanity.