Health Care Scare

The Lack of It, not the Bill is the Fright.


The dueling propaganda machines are in full throttle over Health Care which now appears stalled on the vote until after the break. The adverts on the Right have you asking your Congressperson if they actually read all 1,000 plus pages of it. (doubtful). The adverts on the left pull out a slightly paunchier slightly grayer Harry and Louise to urge that we get it done this time, touting all the nightmarish scenarios that plague Americans because of the way health care is financed in this country. On the radio you can hear guys named Stuart (Stewart?) Butler from the Heritage Institute (no relation) blasting the British health care system from whence he came, noting its lack of innovation. (Not to mention sterilization and sanitation my mother chimed in.)

And the scare continues....Guiliani at the American Enterprise Institute cautions-what if they tell you that you can't get another "stint" after age 59 because they are now rationing them. What? Where is that in the bill? Who ever said that the government would tell you what procedures would be authorized or not? Where, Sir, did you read that in the bill? Page please. What else could be the scariest thing about what the government does with the health care bill? Just imagine the worse then imagine that the entire Congress is stupider than your two year old and can't figure out that this is not advisable. These are the premises you have to buy to believe the Scaretigists on the Right.

All that said, there is basic and there is basic. There is a bottom and there is a top of the line care- and the bottom is what we need to establish, for ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE IN AMERICA. This it seems should rise to the level of a constitutional right of citizenship. If you can afford and want the Mercedes top of the line health care, go for it, if you just need your basic Ford or Toyota to get you around town, don't begrudge the folks who can afford the Mercedes. And Mercedes people, don't deny the "little people" the access to a basic Ford. The government it seems ought to be able to sort out a system so that everyone can drive.
If you find yourself in the camp off to the right, read this to pull yourself out of denial by your bootstraps. You did it so well for everything else.

http://www.truthout.org/072809R?n

Now, be part of the solution or get out of the way. We need a universal health care basic driving package without the bells and whistles, deluxe CD and GPS system for the hoy poloy masses.
It's good for business.