Seems to me a lot of people are missing the point.
First, we have this thing called the "insurance industry" whose job is
to collect money (from us), ration care, and turn over as much money as
possible to their investors. That's the only reason they exist. They
suck up more bucks from us than the health-care system in any other
industrialized country, and do nothing productive in return.
Did you notice that (admittedly with some federal help for the very
poor) people are being forced to buy insurance from those corporate
vultures? Yet a non-profit public option was given up. And a
non-profit national health system (like the rest of the industrialized
world has) was not even considered. What the heck is Socialist /
Communist / Maoist / Nazi about that?
Secondly, there are a lot of people running around pretending to be
"patriots".... yet what is patriotic about working against "the common
welfare" (heard those words before?). It seems to me that some folks
want no taxes, no government, and complete "freedom". Well, if you have
that, you don't have a nation. A nation is a bunch of people working
together to promote the common good. We're in it *together*. Sure, the
line has to be drawn somewhere between anarchy and totalitarianism, but
I fail to see how making a weak, compromised effort to rein in the
abuses of the insurance industry is going too far. This whole thing is
blown grossly out of proportion.
Third, I'd just like to mention a few of our horrible Socialist
institutions..... schools, libraries, roads, fire departments, the FAA,
police departments, the military, the Coast Guard, the National Weather
Service, NOAA, the US Geologic Survey, Forest Service, BLM, and every
town, city, county and state government that provides water, sewer,
garbage collection....... and paid the guy to drive the snow plow that
made it possible for me to get home a couple nights ago.
Add to that Social Security, a program infinitely more Socialistic than
anything in the 'health reform' bill. That didn't seem to destroy the
country. In fact, I know a lot of people (who paid into it all along)
who think it's a pretty good program.
Looking at all this in the light of history and the experiences of other
'advanced' nations, I sure can't fathom what all the hysteria is about.
Bob C.
PS, Where were all the anti-tax deficit hawks when the Bush
administration was sending the deficit through the roof?
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