Look around the world-all civilized countries provide it.
Who will suffer if health care coverage is offered to all citizens? Honestly?
Is everything about money in this country? Money at the expense of our children, the elderly, disabled, chronically or terminally ill?
Doomsday predictions oozing from the Washington Post, Mr. Brooks, Rush, Fox News, and of course every HMO in business.
Lobbyists don't exist for the people who need this coverage. We have elected officials to speak for us. Or don't we?
Ironically health care advocates have to fight for an "alternative" to standard offerings. With 14.7 million US Citizens officially counted as unemployed, many with benefits running out this month, why would any one of them decline health care coverage for themselves and their families?
Who speaks for us? The average citizen is already razored to ribbons- homes lost to foreclosure, reduced work hours, furloughs, layoffs, loss of pension plans, 401K's lost to Wall Street brokers-benefits reduced("we all need to take the hit"), the big corporations tell us-as profits rise but unemployment rises more..
I wonder sometimes if we have lost our senses. Each time something that helps us "lowly citizens" is put forth, it seems as if the current administration has to fight against the very people it wants to help-
Credit card protection
State governments refusing stimulus money for unemployment benefits and jobs
A consumer protection agency
As I read the papers identifying the issues I read the comments-
comments often start like this
_Look moron..
Anyone with a brain...
Nice try, idiot..
Read the last comment written in my blog-it appears we cannot discuss issues without insults and ignorance.
Why wouldn't we want to have a government at all levels which promotes the health, safety and protection of all citizens?
Look around. America is not "all white" anymore. Those of color are not all "illegal".
In fact our country is fast becoming a true melting pot. I am proud of it. I am a part of it. As much as others may want to fight it, we are the melting pot. No going back.
It is time we move forward together -not work to tear apart the fabric of our nation.
