Extreme Smackdown on Cable - the next step to a civilized Health Care solution


I am trying to understand who is to blame for our inability to discuss any subject without anger. It may be our educational system, the wild-west of the Internet or just frustration with our current economic condition. But, until we take the time to encourage and consider original and diverse thought, we are doomed to a litany of forwarded comments from agenda driven websites. If you want to receive hate mail, you only need to express an opinion on anything with which someone, somewhere disagrees. You may agree with 90% of their core beliefs, but unless you accept it all, you are an ignorant (expletive). We are being asked to call or write our members of Congress to either support or reject a bill that has not been completed and will certainly have substantial changes made by next month. Last week there were 50 amendments just to satisfy the Blue Dog Democrats. I am not ready to call my Representative to vote either way on a non-existent bill. I have received forwarded emails stating that the elderly will be encouraged to take hemlock or that all of the criticism of the current plan is being orchestrated by some group. If you only look to those websites and newscasts which agree totally with your point of view, you will only reinforce what you already believe and will not look at other's concerns. So, choose your angry mob and we can take it to television; let the Smackdown begin.

I do know that I do not want the extreme Left or the extreme Right to write the whole bill and that is the all or nothing attitude that is stifling true reform. It is obvious that many on the extreme Left are now unhappy with not getting closer to a single payer system. Those on the extreme Right are unhappy that we are doing anything except increase Medical Savings accounts and a few other changes. The politicians from Washington are used to being treated with deferential respect and are shocked when they have angry comments from both sides when they have a town hall meeting. If both parties feel the need to explain any disagreement with them as coming from uneducated, brain-washed constituents, maybe they need to get out a little more. We have to deal with the real world and maybe it is time for them to do the same. Any bill being considered should be posted on the Internet for us to read and decide. I, for one, am no longer willing to go blindly into the night knowing that my Representative understands that for which he is voting and do not have any confidence that they have read the bill. I want to see some of that transparency that we were promised.

TVP                  tvp@dyingforinsurance.com

Posted by The Virtual Patient at 8/5/2009 10:20 AM
Categories: Socialized Medicine, Politics, Irony, Universal Healthcare, Uninsured
Tags: health care universal health Private Policies uninsured coverage
 

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