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Health Care Reform
Let's play a game, shall we? I know a lot of folks have been talking about how the Health Care Reform bill would either SAVE or DESTROY the world. And the predictions - oh, the predictions!
Well, let's do an HCR Time Capsule, then. Since folks are SO SERIOUS about it, let's write down our predictions, shall we? We'll jot them down and set them aside so that, in, let's say one year from today, we can look back on this and read with marvel and amazement how right or wrong we are! Wouldn't that be fun?
You see, I keep reading blogs and comments and FB statuses and signs along the roadside about how Health Care Reform is going to lead to communism or socialism or fascism (these three seem to get used interchangeably, but who am I to point out the glaring flaws in their statements). While the other side says it's going to make all our health care problems magically disappear, JUST LIKE MAGIC.
I, for one, see a lot of possibilities, but most of them depend on this current health care bill being only the first step. So I honestly don't know what will happen with health care itself.
But I do know that a lot of politicians are going to try and use this as a notch on their political belts. And, honestly, if there's anything we should just by default vote a politician out of office, it's that - - putting their own election needs ahead of our needs. You see, that's the concern I have here. Everyone is whining and moaning about their own perceived losses or wins, or how the run-amok-y government is becoming a fascism regardless of which way the pendulum is swinging. Well, here's the dealio, boys and girls:
It's our fault. Not the democrats or the republicans, but BOTH and all of us. We're letting things get out of hand because we keep letting the government do things that they think we want, as opposed to stepping up and making the tough choices ourselves. We want to beat the other guys SO MUCH that we don't, in effect, care who gets taken out in the process.
For example:
Who here, by a show of hands, really thinks that our current (okay, prior to sunday's HCR vote) health care system was perfect? Honestly - as in, you wouldn't have touched a hair on the tender noggin of health care, that it ate sunshine and farted rainbows.
Okay, yes, that's a trick question. Of COURSE the health care system is busted up. It's too expensive and even health insurance is unpredictably successful at best. Compensatory lawsuits are too aggressive, malpractice insurance as a result is overly burdensome on doctors and hospitals... it's all one big clusteryouknowwhat.
But, really, in spite of all the enormous problems impacting our ability in this country of ours to have halfway decent health care is the fact that we're too busy arguing over the semantics of health care and clutching our personal moralities (ie abortion, medicare, socialized medicine, you name it) like insane raccoons with our shiny tin can lids, while the world crumbles around us.
In short: More shutty uppy, less crazy weasel political screaming.
Let's stop screaming at each other and fix this.
Well, let's do an HCR Time Capsule, then. Since folks are SO SERIOUS about it, let's write down our predictions, shall we? We'll jot them down and set them aside so that, in, let's say one year from today, we can look back on this and read with marvel and amazement how right or wrong we are! Wouldn't that be fun?
You see, I keep reading blogs and comments and FB statuses and signs along the roadside about how Health Care Reform is going to lead to communism or socialism or fascism (these three seem to get used interchangeably, but who am I to point out the glaring flaws in their statements). While the other side says it's going to make all our health care problems magically disappear, JUST LIKE MAGIC.
I, for one, see a lot of possibilities, but most of them depend on this current health care bill being only the first step. So I honestly don't know what will happen with health care itself.
But I do know that a lot of politicians are going to try and use this as a notch on their political belts. And, honestly, if there's anything we should just by default vote a politician out of office, it's that - - putting their own election needs ahead of our needs. You see, that's the concern I have here. Everyone is whining and moaning about their own perceived losses or wins, or how the run-amok-y government is becoming a fascism regardless of which way the pendulum is swinging. Well, here's the dealio, boys and girls:
It's our fault. Not the democrats or the republicans, but BOTH and all of us. We're letting things get out of hand because we keep letting the government do things that they think we want, as opposed to stepping up and making the tough choices ourselves. We want to beat the other guys SO MUCH that we don't, in effect, care who gets taken out in the process.
For example:
Who here, by a show of hands, really thinks that our current (okay, prior to sunday's HCR vote) health care system was perfect? Honestly - as in, you wouldn't have touched a hair on the tender noggin of health care, that it ate sunshine and farted rainbows.
Okay, yes, that's a trick question. Of COURSE the health care system is busted up. It's too expensive and even health insurance is unpredictably successful at best. Compensatory lawsuits are too aggressive, malpractice insurance as a result is overly burdensome on doctors and hospitals... it's all one big clusteryouknowwhat.
But, really, in spite of all the enormous problems impacting our ability in this country of ours to have halfway decent health care is the fact that we're too busy arguing over the semantics of health care and clutching our personal moralities (ie abortion, medicare, socialized medicine, you name it) like insane raccoons with our shiny tin can lids, while the world crumbles around us.
In short: More shutty uppy, less crazy weasel political screaming.
Let's stop screaming at each other and fix this.
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