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Pass it on. This video provides great insight into how purposeful misreading of the proposed legislation is being distilled into false "death panels" and lies about medicare cuts that are aimed at limiting Senior care, when savings are to be derived from things like limiting surgical infection rates and hospital re-admissions due to botched surgeries. Like always, the people who would gain the most from this bill have been spun around, pointed in the wrong direction, and slapped in the ass until they charge in the wrong direction.
Some context, at least half of the respondents who aren't happy with President Obama's performance on health care insurance reform are angry because the and/or 1) Favor a single-payer system that the Democrats aren't proposing and/or 2) Wish that Obama and the Democrats were more aggressive, passing a bill already 3)Don't really pay attention to the legislative process and advocate some system or idea that is only up for a vote in the Congress of the mind. The biggest number that pops out at me is the GOP approval rating on Health Care reform, around 20%. Likely voter's perception of the GOP is one of obstructionist, who work in bad faith, with no workable solutions that are politically viable. Voters want health care and insurance reform, they may all have their own ideas about what that means, but they rightly perceive that the GOP isn't interested in any reform, because if they were, they would have passed some laws that covered the uninsured, provided in-between job continuity of insurance, made sure nobody goes bankrupt because of medical costs, and made pre-existing conditions a thing of the past when they had the White House for eight years and the Congress for fifteen.
So when TV talking heads say all the polls show people don't want to legislate the platform that the majority of them voted for in November, it's not true. Yes there is a loud, vocal 20-40% minority that don't want Obama's agenda to be in-acted. That's why we have elections, and Health Care reform is an ongoing process, whatever engine is developed it's going to have to be tuned in perpetuity. The GOP wants no health insurance reform. The people want portability, access, less out of pocket costs, no pre-existing conditions, and continuity of care. Our system of government is such that the process requires a lot of people with diverse interests combining to make a bill, and then further complicated by the undue influence of lobbyists who the politicians depend on for campaign cash so that they can fulfill the first rule of power. retain power. The GOP and maybe half of Independents may not like the system that doesn't allow for progress to come in the form of a two pieces of paper and 300 words, but that's the system we have. Our framers created a slow, self-contradictory, sausage factory, but the sausage factory is still there to make the sausage we need. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the necessary, and it's necessary to undue some of the burden on the working poor and middle class accrued during the thirty years of shifting all the profit to the top 5%, and all the risk to the other 95%. If we don't reform the system, it's current form is unsustainable. I recognize after the last eight years that people don't trust the process as much, and we do need to get the money out of the system, but remember the pilot has a lot to do with the performance of any engine, and the GOP were really bad pilots because they wanted to destroy the engine on purpose. Google: "Grover Norquist".
At the end of the day you have two choices of sausage, the representative democratic republic sausage where you get to choose the ingredients or the multinational corporate sausage that has ingredients that are as cheap as possible such that you can still eat their sausage and not die or notice the odor of feces, plus you get sausage commercials. I'm a capitalist. I believe in a free market, but an unregulated free market eats its self and destroys its self to nobodies benefit and to the detriment of many people not even remotely involved. When profit is private, and risk is public it's a con game. When reform is needed, and it is, and the people voted for it, understand where the voices of the staus quo are coming from. The same group that brought you the last eight years.
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