Oh, for pete's sake, just vote on the damn bill! It's not that Earth shattering anyhow!

Divine Discontent

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Oct-24-09 09:14 AM
Original message

Oh, for pete's sake, just vote on the damn bill! It's not that Earth shattering anyhow!

The insurance lobbyists with millions to give have successfully watered down what was hopefully going to be, when this all started, a Universal Health Care plan for America, that would have given medical insurance to all of her citizens - into a mealy-mouthed compost pile of minor changes to a health care mess that will still cripple this nation regardless of it's lofty intentions.

When you can only get the "PUBLIC OPTION" insurance as a citizen who isn't offered health insurance from their employer already - then you're pretty much screwed into thinking a major change regarding health care in this country has occurred.

Yes, this will finally get insurance for 15% of us who don't have insurance, like myself, but we still will be told we have to purchase this, and the premiums, according to the CBO are only going to be about 10-15% under the current rates that private insurers charge. Yes, there will be credits of some sort, but if you're unable to be on state welfare medical coverage because you are employed, and your employer doesn't offer medical coverage or you do not qualify, you are going to have to pay for insurance - and sorry, the 'least of these' should be covered in our society with our taxpayer dollars, and more importantly, EVERYONE should be covered by taxpayer dollars so that this runaway health spending disaster that's decimating lives one by one day after day (who's next!), doesn't destroy our country at the benefit of a few thousand upper management employees at CIGNA, Aetna, UHC, BCBS and others. Medical costs now control 17.6% of our Gross Domestic Product output - we are becoming slaves to our own health problems because of cowardice and bribery in Washington DC, greed on Wall Street, and fear of the unknown from the 'right'.

The level of animosity from the 'right' over this major change in health care laws for some of the population is outright laughable. They've been corralled by their TV-brainwashers at Faux Noise Channel to believe President Obama's bringing a death panel to their grandma's bedside to put her to sleep when she enters the hospital. Yes. That's what they believe. I have a friend in Colorado that won't listen to me tell her she's being fed lies by Fox about the death panels, when ultimately, she should be upset that the cost savings from this public option are only going to be a little more than 10%, and yet, she will be paying taxes on her private insurance to help cover this anemic "Public Option", and those of us who do not buy the premiums and get the plan will be charged with fines. What a deal.

It's almost like they're drawing this out to make us think a fantastic victory is going to occur when Give 'Em Hell Harry Reid gets 60 senators to say yes (even though 51 is all that is needed, but we won't get into that fact) to this expensive mediocre mess of 'bipartisanship'. They should have never worked with the GOP and allowed them to water down the plan to it's bare-bones shell that crawls before us now.

We aren't getting a Universal Health Care "Single Payer" plan for all Americans, in fact we're not getting very much - I just wish someone would tell the rest of the nation...

http://www.slate.com/id/2223023/ GOP got numerous (150+) amendments approved in the Senate H.E.L.P. Committee bill
http://www.pnhp.org/ Physicians for a National Health Program

This isn't right Teddy. I wish you were still here fighting for us.