So far, the health care reform effort is turning into a big Kabuki dance. All the usual corporate suspects are suddenly onboard for "reform" -- as long as single payer and measures that would actually and really bring costs down are taken off the table.
For more on this visit: http://www.healthcare-now.org/hr-676/
After diverting hundreds of millions, billions even, of dollars to their own pockets, the big boys are willing to try to cut costs. At least so they say. And they should be, our health care system kills people. Maybe not directly, but the uninsured, underinsured, and scammed; regularly die from neglect, late diagnosis, poor treatment, under standard treatment, and from denial of claims leading to economic ruin and inability to afford medical care. We have the worst system money can buy, and we are already paying for it.
The government will never do the right thing unless we push it to.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/13/baucus_raucus_caucus_doctors_nurses_and
In the long run all this is related. We have two visions of America. One vision is a land of some of the people, controlled by secrets, and run by those people who have those secrets or are in the elites. The other vision is of a land where we have genuine democracy, genuine enlightenment, and genuine opportunity to live a decent life.
The key to changing things is to not lie, not to accept lies, and not be cowed when someone threatens or retaliates because one had the temerity to speak the truth. We don't have to lie on someone elses behalf. Some people aren't worth defending. And we can't let people intimidate us.
Chris
Posted by cholte at May 13, 2009 06:07 PM