Texas
08-15-2009, 11:28 PM
1) We had over 15 years to fix the problem, ever since Hillary was told to stick her plan where the sun doesn’t shine. How come all of the Republicans, conservatives, corporations did not attempt to change anything even while costs continued to spiral higher? The system cost is out of control and has been for over a decade! Why do they want to “fix” it now? Think about this.
2) Over 600 lobbyists are doing their thing to kill healthcare reform, or at least water it down so it does not hurt their constituents (huge healthcare corporations). Can you imagine 6 people bothering you 24/7? All of them high paid and fully funded to make your life a living hell should you vote yes for healthcare reform? All of them organizing terror campaigns to put doubt and the fear of God into your constituents (mostly uninformed and uneducated Americans).
3) The U.S. is the ONLY developed nation without universal healthcare. There are four basic types, each having their advantages and disadvantages. I wish Americans would research the different types that are used around the world. Check out the WHO (World Health Organization) on the Internet and look over all of the studies and statistics instead of listening to their political leaders. Do you listen to your car mechanic about your health problems? The cost of the U.S. healthcare system is TWICE as much as the most expensive universal healthcare program on earth (France). It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge these facts and to use other health care plans as a benchmark. In fact, that what businesses do. They check out what the competition is doing and improve on it. That’s exactly what we should be doing. Not doing things half-assed to protect our frail egos and corrupt power structures. This makes me ill. Let’s just do it right and have the best plan on earth.
4) The U.S. does not have unlimited resources. Yes, we all want perfect healthcare that will give us heart / lung / liver / intestine transplants and keep us alive for 200 years but we cannot afford that. There has to be some reasonable way to limit multi-million dollar operations and lawsuits. No? Is this crazy? Death panels? I laugh at how low the lobbyist will go to put the fear on. Is it so unreasonable that we, as a nation, have to limit healthcare to say 25% of GDP? If we don’t, we will go broke. If we don’t put a limit on things we will be... Exactly where we are today - costs spiraling out of control to our own financial collapse. Americans have got to start to understand that exponential growth forever is impossible. Period. Wake up Americans! Energy is also about to give you another wake-up call, “Americans, this is Mother Nature calling. I’m not increasing your petroleum supply anymore. In fact, I’m going to start slowly reducing it every year. Get your lazy asses out of bed and deal with it.” I’m sick and tired of the softness our politicians take with Americans. They are killing us with kindness (actually their fear of making us mad) and harming us with not being truthful about our true financial condition. News Flash: Our financial condition is critical. “Clear!”
5) Tying BASIC healthcare to profits is cruel and unusual punishment. Why don’t we leave the profit motive to extraordinary care and cosmetic care? Plenty to go around. If you allow corporations to decide who gets what based on profits you might as well allow waterboarding and other torture. Is this view extreme? No. There is nothing more painful then for a parent to watch a family member (particularly their child) suffer. Health is of the highest importance to all humans. Holding their health or the health of their family over their heads is no difference than putting chains around their ankles. In fact, it’s worse. Controlling a person by fear is no different than slavery, especially when they have very few if no options (like in a very bad economy). You can justify it all you want but deep down people know this is true. We are just desensitized to it. Imagine, we are desensitized to the health and wellbeing of our OWN citizens. I’m not talking about some undeveloped African nation here. I’m talking about our nation. Clearly we have a way to go. This is obvious but perhaps we can start moving in the right direction. Before that, we need to fix the financial bleeding. “Forceps!”
5) Most Republicans are against this plan purely from the political perspective. Most would rather go down with the ship than to allow a Democrat to take away their power and to allow them to bask in the glory of fixing the problem. It would be political suicide for them if it worked. That’s politics. I hoped that most Democrats knew this and would not be so swayed by the same old silly tricks. They should be just asking the following questions and make Obama and friends give detailed explanations of what will happen every step of the way:
a] “Obama, you said this is a strictly a cost reduction project. Please explain the costs, year-to-year of how this will help our financial position. We want both the “doing nothing plan” and your plan put next to each other so they can be compared and contrasted. If the finances do not work out very favorably and do not result in a stable financial situation then go back to work until it does.”
b] “Obama, please explain resource limits and how much our country can afford. Will the healthcare system be tied to GDP or some other metric? If so, give us the exact details. If not, why not and give us your reasons and how you expect us to control costs in the future.”
c] “Democrats, if questions a] and b] are answered completely and to your reasonable satisfaction will you vote for this plan? If not, why not. You are on your own and don’t expect even one Republican vote. There’s just too much at stake for extremely wealthy and powerful corporations. This must be dictated by the people, for the people. Since the Democrats have all the power and the majority you have a responsibility to get this fixed. This power position might not happen for decades to come. Make sure it is done right. This plan could easily make or break our country.”
Republicans, make sure questions a] and b] get fully addressed. Even if you don’t like the answers (you won’t because it’s against your programming - like agreeing with the enemy). Make sure it all comes out. Costs must be controlled. We can come up with a very good system where the cost is tied to GDP. All it takes is the right mindset and discipline. If we treat our citizens like valued human beings and are honest with them that we can’t pave the streets with gold they will understand.
2) Over 600 lobbyists are doing their thing to kill healthcare reform, or at least water it down so it does not hurt their constituents (huge healthcare corporations). Can you imagine 6 people bothering you 24/7? All of them high paid and fully funded to make your life a living hell should you vote yes for healthcare reform? All of them organizing terror campaigns to put doubt and the fear of God into your constituents (mostly uninformed and uneducated Americans).
3) The U.S. is the ONLY developed nation without universal healthcare. There are four basic types, each having their advantages and disadvantages. I wish Americans would research the different types that are used around the world. Check out the WHO (World Health Organization) on the Internet and look over all of the studies and statistics instead of listening to their political leaders. Do you listen to your car mechanic about your health problems? The cost of the U.S. healthcare system is TWICE as much as the most expensive universal healthcare program on earth (France). It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge these facts and to use other health care plans as a benchmark. In fact, that what businesses do. They check out what the competition is doing and improve on it. That’s exactly what we should be doing. Not doing things half-assed to protect our frail egos and corrupt power structures. This makes me ill. Let’s just do it right and have the best plan on earth.
4) The U.S. does not have unlimited resources. Yes, we all want perfect healthcare that will give us heart / lung / liver / intestine transplants and keep us alive for 200 years but we cannot afford that. There has to be some reasonable way to limit multi-million dollar operations and lawsuits. No? Is this crazy? Death panels? I laugh at how low the lobbyist will go to put the fear on. Is it so unreasonable that we, as a nation, have to limit healthcare to say 25% of GDP? If we don’t, we will go broke. If we don’t put a limit on things we will be... Exactly where we are today - costs spiraling out of control to our own financial collapse. Americans have got to start to understand that exponential growth forever is impossible. Period. Wake up Americans! Energy is also about to give you another wake-up call, “Americans, this is Mother Nature calling. I’m not increasing your petroleum supply anymore. In fact, I’m going to start slowly reducing it every year. Get your lazy asses out of bed and deal with it.” I’m sick and tired of the softness our politicians take with Americans. They are killing us with kindness (actually their fear of making us mad) and harming us with not being truthful about our true financial condition. News Flash: Our financial condition is critical. “Clear!”
5) Tying BASIC healthcare to profits is cruel and unusual punishment. Why don’t we leave the profit motive to extraordinary care and cosmetic care? Plenty to go around. If you allow corporations to decide who gets what based on profits you might as well allow waterboarding and other torture. Is this view extreme? No. There is nothing more painful then for a parent to watch a family member (particularly their child) suffer. Health is of the highest importance to all humans. Holding their health or the health of their family over their heads is no difference than putting chains around their ankles. In fact, it’s worse. Controlling a person by fear is no different than slavery, especially when they have very few if no options (like in a very bad economy). You can justify it all you want but deep down people know this is true. We are just desensitized to it. Imagine, we are desensitized to the health and wellbeing of our OWN citizens. I’m not talking about some undeveloped African nation here. I’m talking about our nation. Clearly we have a way to go. This is obvious but perhaps we can start moving in the right direction. Before that, we need to fix the financial bleeding. “Forceps!”
5) Most Republicans are against this plan purely from the political perspective. Most would rather go down with the ship than to allow a Democrat to take away their power and to allow them to bask in the glory of fixing the problem. It would be political suicide for them if it worked. That’s politics. I hoped that most Democrats knew this and would not be so swayed by the same old silly tricks. They should be just asking the following questions and make Obama and friends give detailed explanations of what will happen every step of the way:
a] “Obama, you said this is a strictly a cost reduction project. Please explain the costs, year-to-year of how this will help our financial position. We want both the “doing nothing plan” and your plan put next to each other so they can be compared and contrasted. If the finances do not work out very favorably and do not result in a stable financial situation then go back to work until it does.”
b] “Obama, please explain resource limits and how much our country can afford. Will the healthcare system be tied to GDP or some other metric? If so, give us the exact details. If not, why not and give us your reasons and how you expect us to control costs in the future.”
c] “Democrats, if questions a] and b] are answered completely and to your reasonable satisfaction will you vote for this plan? If not, why not. You are on your own and don’t expect even one Republican vote. There’s just too much at stake for extremely wealthy and powerful corporations. This must be dictated by the people, for the people. Since the Democrats have all the power and the majority you have a responsibility to get this fixed. This power position might not happen for decades to come. Make sure it is done right. This plan could easily make or break our country.”
Republicans, make sure questions a] and b] get fully addressed. Even if you don’t like the answers (you won’t because it’s against your programming - like agreeing with the enemy). Make sure it all comes out. Costs must be controlled. We can come up with a very good system where the cost is tied to GDP. All it takes is the right mindset and discipline. If we treat our citizens like valued human beings and are honest with them that we can’t pave the streets with gold they will understand.