I wish it really was just about health care
Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 20:57 Mr. Maven decided that he wanted to weigh in on this volatile, and contentious topic:
The real issue is whether our elected politicians can even do the right thing for their country and constituents, or are they so deeply indebted to special insterest groups ( lobbyists ) for campaign contributions that they are held hostage by campaign contributions trumping ‘doing the right thing’.
Another way to phrase this: Are we still capable of self-governance? Or, have we thrown in the towel to mob rule driven by corporations and their shills from ‘K’ Street?
We have a leaderless political party (the GOP) , mistakenly referred to as ‘conservative’, that has only one agenda. It is to make certain the present administration fails, no matter the cost to society or country. I have not yet heard one solution or suggestion from these people. Just fault finding, outrageous deception and venomous lies.
The present administration should have proposed a simply straightforward single payer health care bill like Medicare for all of our citizens with built in fees to pay as we go. Also, let’s quit calling health insurance premiums taxes. That’s a disingenuous misnomer meant to mislead the gullible. Taxes are what we pay to run government. There’s a functional difference. Had the administration done this, and passed it to Congress for debate and vote, we’d possibly be on the way to real reform.
The present strategy of trying from bipartisan support and arguing over the details obviously isn’t working. The other side wants none of Mr. Obama’s bipartisanship, so leave them behind.
This nation should have the best health care and educational systems in the world, or at the very least on a par with the rest of the industrialized world. Getting there would be much easier with hard-nosed, pragmatic campaign finance reform laws, and perhaps the inclusion of a couple more political parties to keep the current crop a bit more honest … rather like a single-payer public option will help the insurance companies walk the straight and narrow.
RVR.
NOTE: Mr. Maven is a 16 year, satisfied member of that government run insurance called Medicare.
Reader Comments (3)
Hear! Hear!
I was going to say Hear! Hear!, but bluelyon beat me to it. Good work, Mr. Maven.
Exactly!