Just what do you think is going to happen? I’m talking to you, Tea-People, who protested in DC today over the upcoming vote on the House’s version of the Health Care Bill. I mean, really, what do you think is going to happen?
It may be completely naive of me, but I like to assume that politicians and the government are smart enough and straight-forward enough that they aren’t going to anything that is going to completely destroy our country. Of course, now that I say this, I think back to some of the choices made regarding a couple of wars we’ve entered, and it casts some doubt. Still, it’s always difficult for me to understand when people take this line of thought: “what they are doing is destroying our country.”
It’s a ridiculous line of thought. Even with the two wars we’re fighting in, I dont’ think our country is going to be ruined.
Now, with regards to health care: Is your doctor going away? No. Is you insurance going to dry up, or become more expensive? No. Will it be harder for you to get healthy? I seriously doubt it.
If we ignore the costs (and of course they factor in, but, for the sake of one-point-at-a-time…) then let’s start with some premises and see where we agree:
Living is good. Healthy living is the best living. Everyone should be living their best. Americans deserve healthy lives.
With me so far? I think it would be hard to argue these basic premises (maybe that last one, but let’s assume you are generally an agreable person and fairly patriotic). Either way, it seems reasonable to me that people should be able to go to the doctor without fear of becoming utterly indebted. That’s what health care is.
So what about this bill makes you think your health care will get worse because there will be more of it for others? More importantly, what about this bill makes you think that limiting the costs of our health care system, a system which threatens to overtake our economy, hurts your chance to get healthy yourself?
It may sound like agressive rhetoric, but I’m serious, what is it? Please, let me know.
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What will happen you ask? When was the last time you went to the DMV?
And, by the way, it is naive of you to think politicians are “straightforward” and have our best interests at heart. They are definitely “smart enough” to fleece a lot of people. They have been doing it since before Caesar.
HSP,
I can’t disagree with you here. There are too many great examples, especially lately, of politicians working to their or their party’s own advantage, to the disadvantage of the country.
Given that, I am forced to go back to the Tea group and ask how best, then, should healthcare be reformed so that everyone is covered and costs don’t run out of control?
Apparently Hawaii has been running successfully universal care for some 40 years, and I’d like to know how that system might compare with some of the current proposals.