I hope this makes sense...with my wife's health, my mind is so scrambled these days. I hope I haven't made this so confusing that my argument is reduced to a lunatic's wondering mind.
Are we as a nation so mentally handicapped that we cannot wrap our brain around healthcare for all? Are we so selfish, to think that a government option would end all private care centers? This is not even remotely a threat to the existing healthcare providers (The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutch, UW Medicine, Children's Swedish, Providence, Harborview and all of the rest would continue to provide the same quality of care they are providing today). Our military are continually all that they can be, manufacturing by far, the most advanced weaponry in the world, and this is a government protection for us all, no privatized protection for our country; yet our private vendors are more profitable than ever, with an increasing market for weapons on our streets.
A government option will not lead to a dumping of all bad (most liable to be an expensive claimant)into the government option, because there will be contingents put in place to prevent a dumping of the elderly and currently sick, from the private plans to the public plans, as this would obviously be discrimination and any such acts are unconstitutional and therefore prosecutable under the law. If no such section of the law has been clearly defined, then our congressional representatives owe it to us to have this taken care with expediency. So, for those thinking they would lose their existing care providers, Take a deep breath and exhale.
Also, there have been those who have stated that the government option would be flooded with illegal immigrants, which is not only inaccurate, but a flat out lie, aimed at misguiding those who blindly follow their every word. I don't understand these people; because this was done with Clinton too...so where is the Republican option? Bush was in office for eight years and had the anything he wanted. Did everyone just wake up with amnesia? What are you waiting on? Or, is it racism.
We keep being reminded that HE'S BLACK, or HE'S A SOCIALIST, or, HE'S NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN...Anything to distract you from what's being laid out in front of you. And, it works EVERYTIME, because we forgot the elections. The media was never on Obama's side, so why would they be now? They were always hard on him, giving relentless coverage to every racist inference. They would give relentless coverage then watch as people would spout out, "Kill him!" at campaign rallies for Palin and McCain, yet no one thought anything of it; to capture and arrest that person. Instead they all grew into this frenzy of hate? How did that make you feel about your country at that very moment? Really, be honest? Did you agree or did you feel sick, or as an African American, did you feel scared and disappointed because you saw where things were going? Did anyone really realize how close we were to another Civil War; we were VERY close. But, this time it would have been a rainbow coalition against…you know, the ignorant.
We now find that the Bush administration purposely raised the threat level at opportune times to benefit him politically. We now know that Cheney and Rove remained the stewards of that sinking ship that carried our nation into its biggest financial, social and racial turnaround for the bad, in the history of this nation.
Now, the wealthy owners of healthcare and pharmaceuticals are throwing every dollar into denying ALL Americans healthcare again, by playing to our primitive sense of survival. Our sense of caring for our self and only our self and damn everyone else. I say, "NOT THIS TIME!" This time we leave no one on the battlefield; we leave no one behind. A government option is the only way to guarantee all have Healthcare coverage.
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