There goes our FREEDOM- Health Care REFORM moves closer to reality...
I'm not completely happy with the bill that seems primed to win the required votes in the senate. I'm in a much more heavier lean towards the one that passed in the House in November which includes a public option. You know, the PUBLIC OPTION that you hear so much about on those commercials that want to derail any vote which includes it: "Please contact your represenative and say NO to a public option..."
I find it interesting that even with the senate version, without the public option, the Tea Party People are saying nothing about their apparent victory there. They should all be getting in line to kiss Joe Lieberman full on the lips. But- it's not happening and what I would like them, the tea party people, to do is to tell it like it is:
THEY WANT NO KIND OF HEALTH CARE REFORM WHATSOEVER.
To them it's a myth that so many people out there are suffering without any kind of health care coverage. I just heard a senior woman standing on the protest lines with the Tea Party say this in response to a question about the 18 million or more uninsured and I think it sums up the complete and willfully ignorant disregard that she and others have for people who are literally on their last legs....:
"I don't see anyone dying on the streets..." To them, it's a taking away of their freedom if the government tries to reform a troubled system.
Another Tea Party member shouts: "We want lower costs and less government!" My question to him would be: How would you propose we deal with the current trend in the health insurance industry without the government? How do we get to your "lower costs" in a market place which is geared toward higher profits?
And whose freedom are we talking about here- yours or the ones who are in desperate need to have their health care needs met? Aren't they also entitled to FREEDOM to choose a health care plan that they can afford?
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I find it interesting that even with the senate version, without the public option, the Tea Party People are saying nothing about their apparent victory there. They should all be getting in line to kiss Joe Lieberman full on the lips. But- it's not happening and what I would like them, the tea party people, to do is to tell it like it is:
THEY WANT NO KIND OF HEALTH CARE REFORM WHATSOEVER.
To them it's a myth that so many people out there are suffering without any kind of health care coverage. I just heard a senior woman standing on the protest lines with the Tea Party say this in response to a question about the 18 million or more uninsured and I think it sums up the complete and willfully ignorant disregard that she and others have for people who are literally on their last legs....:
"I don't see anyone dying on the streets..." To them, it's a taking away of their freedom if the government tries to reform a troubled system.
Another Tea Party member shouts: "We want lower costs and less government!" My question to him would be: How would you propose we deal with the current trend in the health insurance industry without the government? How do we get to your "lower costs" in a market place which is geared toward higher profits?
And whose freedom are we talking about here- yours or the ones who are in desperate need to have their health care needs met? Aren't they also entitled to FREEDOM to choose a health care plan that they can afford?
www.tomriddell.com