Let’s take a short look at the “reform” that our current administration and our congress has been touting. Where is it? Who knows, but is sure is beginning to appear that the Obama Administration and our Congress have sold us down the river in favor of the private sector.

Frankly, I am very dissappointed in our president. His campaign words were so full of promise that we would actually see some real reform in our health care system. Instead, it appears that the nation’s citizens are being ignored to the tune of the lobby influence from the health care industry. Instead, the Obama Administration would not even allow the single payer folks at the table, until they were embarrased by the people so much. Even then, it was miniscule compared to the level of interest and the potential benefits that would be potentially forthcoming from such a program. I don’t quite understand why someone who was percieved as being such a “man of the people” could simply ignore so many and not allow decent hearings of the SPUHC options. Not quite ready to tag Obama with feet of clay, but he sure has let a lot of us down on the “reform” of health care.

The Democratic Legislators are a major disappointment also. Especially the Senate committees charged with developing a comprehensive health care reform bill. Max Baucus even had some citizens arrested for exercising their rights under the constitution to demand a hearing by the legislaive bodies. Several doctors and nurses were arrested and Baucus even had the temerity to laugh and joke about having the medical professional arrested, all the while playing up to representatives from the private health care insurers, pharmaceutical and other health care INDUSTRY organizations. Yet he had no time to listen to citizens, to doctors, to nurses? What the hell is going on in our Congress? Are they not supposed to be the legislative representatives of the people? Who do they think they are kidding?

The Republicans? Heck, they were expected to sell us out to the private sector interests. Especially on the issue of health care, because of their fealty to the major health care insurers and pharmaceutical companies. These so called representatives of the people would put the interests of business ahead of the well being of people without a single thought to the outcome. They simply don’t care about the American citizens unless they happen to be among the rich and powerful.

The Republican leadership, which, in my humble opinion suffers greatly from a dearth of integrity and honor, and is primarily represented by several extremely poor excuses for human beings, has continued to show itself as more interested in protecting the insurance companies than in protecting the health of Americans. John Boehner of Ohio, Eric Cantor of Virginia, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, all three in the leadership of the Republicans in Congress think nothing about lying to the people if it means advancing their personal fortunes and they care not one whit about the people they are SUPPOSED to represent. No, we can absolutly forget about any support from the GOP on the issue of health care for all Americans. There is one thing that you can count on for certain, if McConnell, Boehner, or Cantor is saying something about health care, you can be absolutely certain that the opposite is the truth. These three would like just for the hell of it.

Cost Effective Option

Single Payer Universal Health Care has been proven to be cost effective and in point of fact, far more cost effective and efficient than our current for profit health care system. The existing system is badly broken, is killing our citizens and is costing us double digits overhead on every dollar spent on health services. Take the legislation from Conyers or Sanders, both in the House and the Senate, are two bills that would improve our health care access, increase the effacy of our health care outcomes and significantly increase or national health profile. AND it would do all this at a much lower cost than we are paying now.

Don’t let anyone fool you, WE pay all of the cost for health care in this nation today. The best medical plans in the counry are still coming out of our pockets. Higher cost for products and services, lower incomes for the workers. Those costs are simply not as evident. Why would we not want to see a more robust health care availability, bette health care outcomes and all at a lower overall cost. Why, with SPUHC fully functional in this country, our people COULD recieve a considerable increase in their net take home pay. It would come, or should come, from the savings that their employers would see from being unburdened from the financial load of group health care premiums.

France has far better health care for it’s citizens than the United States, yet their national average cost is far less than half what the we spend. They even have physicians who make house calls! The French Citizen lives a longer healthier life and is freed from the horrible anxiety that most Americans live with every day, that of losing their health care access and having a sick child.

Actuarial projections show a savings in health care access across the board of 300 billion dollars a year. So can someone tell this old crazy coot why these dimwits in Congress are talking about over a trillion dollars in costs? Makes no sense to me. Wonder if they have even read the HR676 legislation? It is not that darn difficult, it is short and to the point, no bazillion words and pages that only a lawyer could understand. Heck I read it and understood it, why can’t they? Oh wait, they probaby can, and they see millions of dollars in lobby campaign funds going bye bye. Skanky slugs.
More thant 18000 people dies from a lack of health care access in this country every single year. Yet we have had the Congress, both houses, working on complex, convoluted legislation that in the end, will do absolutely nothing to Reforme health care delivery. Hell it won’t even reform health care insurance operations. Yet they have been “working hard” to get these health care bills ready for a vote and for Obama to sign their final bill into law. And we will get screwed once again.

Any reason you can think of as to why the American people simply have a very very low opinion of the Congress? In fact, i ALL politicians?