We were glad to see that the health care bill finally passed. Everyone needs health care, and it shows our government actually does care for everyone (not just rich people). The way I look at it is 1) it works okay in Canada and England. 2) Medicare works okay here, and is better than nothing 3) The Gov't requires us to all have auto insurance for our and others safety, so aren't people more important?
The things that tick me off more than anything: 1) Republicans said Democrats used a motion that has never been used to pass it. WRONG!!! GOP used the procedure 22 times, Democrats used it 7 times before. What a crock of crap the Republicans have told the media.
Here's a local example for you: We keep paying for things every time thugs go into hospitals with gun shot wounds. Why should WE pay for criminals? In fact, one of the hospitals in Washington, D.C. went bankrupt because of it, and now the Maryland Prince George's county hospital gets all those criminals (who have no health care) and the hospital has been bailed out of bankruptcy by the county 3 times now! Why should people that live in Maryland pay for criminals who shoot each other in the District of Columbia? How does that make sense?
Below: TOM AND I TOTALLY AGREE WITH ECONOMIST JAMES KUNTSLER, who wrote the following on his blog today:
“The most striking elements of so-called health care in America these days is how cruel and unjust it is, and in taking a stand against reforming it the Republican party appeared to be firmly in support of cruelty and injustice. This would be well within the historical tradition of other religious crusades which turned political -- such as the Spanish Inquisition and the seventeenth century war against witchcraft. Whatever else the Democratic party has stood for in recent history, it has tended to oppose institutional cruelty and injustice, and notice that it has also been the party for keeping religion out of government.
I hope that Mr. Obama's party can carry this message clearly into the electoral battles ahead, painting the Republican opposition for what it is: a gang of hypocritical, pietistic sadists, seeking pleasure in the suffering of others while pretending to be Christians, devoid of sympathy, empathy, or any inclination to simple human kindness, constant breakers of the Golden Rule, enemies of the common good. In fact, the current edition of the Republican party has achieved something really memorable in the annals of collective bad intentions: they have managed to create a sense of the public interest whose main goal is the destruction of the public interest.
This is exactly what the Republican majority on the Supreme Court did earlier this year by deciding that corporations -- which are sociopathic by definition in being answerable only to their shareholders and nothing else -- should enjoy the same full privileges in election campaign contributions as human persons, who are assumed to have obligations, duties, and responsibilities to the common good (and therefore to the public interest). This shameful act by the court majority only underscores the chief defining characteristic of Republicans in their current incarnation: an inability to think. And so, naturally Republicans gravitate toward superstition and the traditional devices of improvident religious authorities -- persecution of the weak, torture, denial of due process, and dogmas designed to spread hatred.
I hope the American public begins to understand this, because they have been manipulated in their own pain and hardship by these dark forces, and their thrall to the likes of John Boehner, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush, Hannity, and the rest of these vicious morons could easily increase as their economic hardships deepen. We're facing a comprehensive contraction of wealth and economy that is going to challenge every shared virtue in our national soul, and we're not going to meet these difficulties successfully without a sense of mutual obligation and sympathy for each other. The Republican party is just itching to turn a giant thumbscrew on the US public -- that is, before they try to start burning their enemies at the stake. We understand that the Health Care Reform Act is a first stand against that.”
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