Please Read These Words

Here we are at the brink of it–eternally.  Maybe.  The “lion” has passed and we sit waiting for a public option.  Or is it the beginning of Germany in the 1930’s all over again.  I feel like Neo sitting down with Morpheus for the first time.

Ever wonder why people can’t get it straight?  Wonder why we kill our idols?… Or why they kill themselves even when we build pedestals for them that rise through the clouds?  I don’t know either.  Anyway, I was thinking about this health care thing…

Why not pool our jing so everyone can afford a few family checkups; or  so single parents working minimum wage jobs can get fixed if they get hurt.  Not everyone can be V.P. at a bank; and I think most would agree that flipping burgers or digging ditches is just as difficult, and deserves the same access to antibiotics or insulin.

People say the uninsured already get care because the emergency room never turns people away.  That may be true, but let’s give people their dignity back. Why shouldn’t every working man and woman be able to access health?  This is about human rights.  If we can pay for cutting edge bomb technology with our tax dollars, we can pay to take care of one another.

We must be able to meet somewhere in the middle.  No one is taking away private, exclusive health care options.  This is America.  A whole new business will open up for those who mistrust the liberals who supposedly want to kill the rich people, take their money, and give it to poor people.  Insurance companies will find a way to profit from the paranoia that this move to partially socialize health care will somehow degrade patient care, underfund research, etc.

Again, this is America.  We are always on the innovation track… sometimes for our benefit, sometimes our craftiness backfires.  Let’s just ask ourselves what we have to lose?  Why weren’t people this upset when the government handed all that money to the banks and the auto industry?

People really need to wake up.  Take a look at what insurance companies and drug companies have raked in from you over the years.  Do these people care about you, or their shareholders?  I’m not saying the government is a beacon of hope and fiscal responsibility, but what do we have to lose?  We can at least write to public officials, and it is their job to eventually respond.  We can even vote people out of office!

Corporations have been ruling the roost for too long.  We sit here fearing a mild experiment with social democracy, and our access to health has been increasingly gouged by a corporate oligarchy for years.

The mega businesses are the ones who stand to lose something here.  Not you. They  have a fleet of lawyers and PR people to make sure “Joe the Plumber” feels like he’s being taken care of while his well water gets polluted.  And even though I think Joe the Plumber is a dumbass, if he gets sick from drinking the water and can’t afford insurance, I’m happy put my taxes toward getting him on the mend.