To prove further my point made in my last blog that town hall rioters' actions are working, the public option for health care insurance is no longer in the Senate bill, but only in the House bill and it's likely that this option will never be in the final bill. Why? Its exceedingly simple to understand - insurance companies don't want more competition, especially less expensive competition. The public option one can think of as simply another form of medicare or medicaid, which most people consider a basic and important source of government help.
What is so amazing is that a good percentage of the very people who are rioting against healthcare reform more than likely have medicare or medicaid. Amazing, they don't even understand that this benefit they receive is a "social program" e.g. a form of socialism, because we are not simply a democracy, we are a hybrid socialized government and democracy. That is how the U.S. was designed. Of course we have social programs, that is all that "socialism" in it's "pop" use, means, that there are programs for the good of the people provided by the government.
One can nit pick all day about what socialism really means, what a "pure" socialistic society is, but that is a waste of one's time. The government is "of the people, for the people and by the people" and since WE are the people, we get government programs. Simple as that. To be against that is simply not understanding how our government works.
To be for insurance companies as the only option which leaves 48 million people uninsured is not understanding that uninsured individuals drain our society's resources. Imagine if there was no medicare or medicaid and what that would do to our society, not only financially, but how we would be viewed morally?
We must take care of our citizens. The public option must stay in the bill. Write the president, write your local representatives. Don't let uninformed rioters (who want nothing more than simply to hurt our president, that is their real agenda because they are so against him for a whole host of reasons including race) win against intelligence.
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