THE INMATES [THE CONSERVATIVES OF BOTH PARTIES] ARE WORKING ARDUOUSLY TO TAKE OVER THE INSANE ASYLUM [CONGRESS]
WITH THE FINANCE COMMITTEE FINALLY VOTING ON THEIR VERSION OF THE HEALTH CARE REFORM, THERE IS MUCH TO BE DONE TO GET THE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE REFORM THIS NATION REQUIRES [BEYOND THE PROVISIONS OF THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE BILL].
I am senior citizen and have never heard such vitriolic language used against a president or a program as vital as health care reform is for the overwhelming number of Americans.
Unfortunately, it appears that some of those who need universal health care the most, are such blind, loyal followers of the right wing fools in the Republican Party, Fox News and talk radio that they believe these unreliably motivated talking heads who are nothing more than puppets of the enemies of health care reform are actually telling the truth.
If only these old fools who keep howling like horny coyotes about losing their Medicare, a government take over of health care, death panels, and rationing will wait until the final bill comes out of the Congress, i.e. if they will only wait until there is a bill voted on by both Houses of the Congresses and heading for the oval office for the signature of the president, will they know precisely what is in the final draft of the legislation. Right now they are fighting phantoms that are creatures of the special interest.
On this I will be more than happy to wager—there will be no loss of Medicare coverage, no government take-over even if a public option is included, absolutely no death panels, and the only thing that will be rationed will be those tests which are given over and over again for the benefit of no one except the medical professionals and the insurance companies--by one doctor and then another doctor, and another, and another; one hospital and then another, an another, and another. In other words, the wasted money presently expended on tests that are nothing more than duplications of the same procedure because doctors and hospitals often do not share medical records and tests already taken on the patients’ behalf.
Actually, this entire charade against health care has been vigorously organized by the Republican Party, Fox News, uninformed right wing talk radio hosts and, of course, the insurance and related corporations that have huge profits at stake with the outcome of this legislation. Unfortunately, these people do not play well with others, do not play on behalf of the needs of a majority of the American people, and have little or no interest in the urgent health needs of those who are slaves to the health insurance industry.
In some states, one insurance company controls 80% or more of all health insurance available in that state and therefore, is free to charge whatever they damn well please, turn down coverage for any and all previous health conditions, and/or deny coverage to those whose health could, in the future, cost the insurance company dollars that detract from their profit margins.
Insurance company management is fighting only for its shareholders, its balance sheets and their future as successful executives accustomed to hauling in enormous salaries and benefit packages using every tool at their disposal to mislead, deceive, hoodwink, pull the wool over the eyes of those who will benefit from reform, but lack the intellect, the insight or the educational background to see it.
I have heard senior citizens argue that they are opposed to “death panels” when no death panels or anything like a death panel exists in any version of the several bills presently under consideration in the Congress.
Henchmen for the insurance companies take front seats at Town Hall meetings because they are paid to and begin to shout obnoxiously gargantuan lies that old fools too dumb to question or too full of anger toward the “government” to look beyond their own baseless prejudices to their own welfare. The people who are loyal followers of Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh are those in our country who have yet to have enough self-worth and self-esteem to think for themselves and all too ready and too vulnerable to accept whatever lies about Washington and the intentions of Obama that these demagogues disgorge. They have pushed this crusade against health care reform under the disguise of misinformation, blatant lies, and a bold display of ignorance.
And now we have to face the fact that even some Democratic Senators who chair committees responsible for developing the reform sought by a vast majority of the America citizenry, have passed a counterfeit bill that is falsely labeled “reform” out of the Senate Finance Committee chaired by Senator Max Baucus of Montana that will do nothing to reign in the outlandish costs inherent in the present health care policy while pouring millions of additional dollars into the pockets of health insurance companies that have given Baucus over $4 million dollars in campaign funds.
If Montanans have any sense they will throw this horse’s ass out of the Senate faster than a greased pig shot out of a cannon. This jerk held up the approval of this bill for two months giving his buddies in the insurance ample time to use the month of August to chip away at what was once widespread support this bill enjoyed prior to the August Congressional recess.
Baucus looks and talks like the wimp that he is and even further the double agent he is to the Democrats who voted Obama into the presidency and gave the Demos a majority in the Senate and a whopping majority in the House. And this idiot from Montana is threatening the passage of a bona fide reform bill for health care, but is personally engineering major Republican gains in the 2010 elections. This man should be horse whipped on the main street of Billings [Montana that is] at noon.
And Kent Conrad, another blue dog Democrat is giving the enemies of health care reform all of the support they need in his obstinate refusal to give this nation the “public option” it must have if it is to stop insurance companies from gauging Americans for every health benefit they receive.
I would like to introduce you to the members of the Senate Finance Committee who cast the most destructive vote of their public careers when they chose to vote against a “public option” for the health care reform legislation presently before the Senate committee.
This is a list of those Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee who voted against the “option.”
CHUCK GRASSLEY, [R-IA]
ORRIN G. HATCH, [R-UT]
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, [R-ME]
JON KYL, [R-AZ]
JIM BUNNING, [R-KY]
MIKE CRAPO, [R-ID]
PAT ROBERTS, [R-KS]
JOHN ENSIGN, [R-NV]
MIKE ENZI, [R-WY]
JOHN CORNYN, [R-TX]
And on the Democratic side of the aisle—four rogue Senators voted against the “public option.”
MAX BAUCUS, [D-MT]
THOMAS CARPER [D-DE]
KENT CONRAD [D-ND]
BLANCHE LINCOLN [D-AR]
There is absolutely no way to bring health care costs down if we do not force health insurance companies to compete for our business. The sole purpose of the “public option” was to give the giant health insurance money machines competition in the pricing of coverage.
The list above are the beneficiaries of huge sums of campaign funds from special interest groups associated with the industry that provides us health care and are the very reason why the United States of America pays twice as much for health care as any other nation in the western world and receives quality health care far below many of those same countries.
As long as those Senators listed above are agents for the health care industry and not agents of the citizens who sent them to Congress to vote in their best interests, Americans will pay out of the nose for sub-par health care.
However, the citizens of this country, seventy percent [70%] of whom support the public option, were attacked from two [2] sides. The Republicans and the “free enterprise” freaks who believe that our country will crumble if health insurance does not remain under the auspices of big business and believe me, the health insurance industry is really big business. That is the very reason why they have flooded the public air waves, the town hall meetings and talk radio with advocates who knowingly lie when they call Obama is a Socialist, a Nazi, a Communist and falsely indict those who support the public option of attempting a “government takeover,” of the health insurance industry by inserting the “public option” into the health care reform bill. The option’s sole purpose is to bring down your health insurance costs and those who cannot see for the very simple reason that they are “blinded by the right,” to borrow a phrase from the title of former Republican David Brock’s book.
It is time for the American people to see the naked truth—this is no longer “a government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
It is a government of special interests because nearly all Republicans and far too many Democratic representatives in the Congress are bought and paid for by special interests.
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