regarding health insurance reform ...

[James M Booth]

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All some of us have wanted most of our lives has been an increase in *social justice*

Taking better care of each other, making sure advances in scientific research and technology benefit everyone.

Ensuring no one is forgotten, excluded, marginalized, left beside the road of "progress" as it were.

Thus, of course we call for *health care reform* !


Instead, what is being offered is a "new and improved" version of the *commodification of health care* as an enhanced vehicle to profit the few.

A revised and updated scheme to siphon more personal wealth from the average working person.

Millions of virtual dollars "expended" to buy off "legislators" (and their votes) and to craft "public relations announcements" designed to mold "public opinion" through a scare campaign in which no one can decide who really are the "bad guys" is nothing more than a naked PSYOPS campaign to profit the richest of the rich, and the corporate entities they control.

None of it is about "feds taking over" - all of it is about "feds" being taken over.


" ... who else [but "feds"] is going to step in to insure the millions of Americans that [sic]
are dying annually due to the lack of health care"

... is to me a question asked by someone who likes to ask questions.

Anyone suffering prolonged illness or disease is not going to get well over lunch with an insurance agent, no matter how much "insurance" is purchased.

What is required is the latest medical attention and technology.


In the same way it was so long "inconvenient" to be *environmentally friendly* it was only after the corporatocracy had crafted new proposed rules to INSURE their own profits from "reform" in relation to "health care" that any *change* is even open to "debate" (we NEED a real debate on the issue).

Yet such a sloppy job of it was done that anyone can see, merely by looking at titles of the president's weekly addresses, without even reading them, the change in focus from *health care reform* to *health insurance reform* in something like less than six weeks.

Bought and paid for, the "representatives" of We, The People, now face a choice:

Represent The People and let "corporate interests" fend for themselves, or be voted out of office.


There is no question that We, The People - *united* - have the compassion to take care of each other, and I see it demonstrated around me every day.

If all the "money" that has been spent, is being spent every day, in attempts to re-engineer public opinion and to buy Senators and Congressmen, were devoted to making sure children have glasses, workers have dental care, those injured by other drivers are not left to suffer homelessness from inability to take care of themselves, or those addicted to a substance have help to recover and remain productive, then we would not need any "reform"

... but there is no profit in solving problems on any level.

Problems are solved because people care about each other, because people see another person's pain as easily their own under different circumstances, and because it is the right thing to do - no matter how much it costs.


What could have been a genuine effort to get people off the streets (where they are not wanted anyway) - the only place they have left to go because they are too sick to provide for themselves or to pay the "usual expenses" you and I take for granted as "the way things are" - was immediately derailed, or at least diluted, by inane arguments over how many Americans "lack health insurance."

On one side of that non-issue, those who say they are for "free enterprise" claimed the numbers were inflated, even while they are paid to do so by the very globalists who are anathema to *Free Enterprise*

Wanting to make sure everyone has medical care, the other side of that "argument" seems comfortable with more government regulation to solve our social problems.

The only real solution for the challenges we face begins with "government" getting out of our way, and that begins with OUR own ability to remember who and what *legitimate government* IS:
NOT a "separate entity" that controls us, but a *social contract* authorized by We, The People.


It does not take "government" at any level to provide for the needs of our families, our friends and neighbours, co-workers, and for ourselves.

Organizing at the community level can and does solve deficiencies such as a person going without shelter, or who is temporarily unable to pay for medications or a visit to a medical practitioner.

Very few of the men and women who hold public office have medical degrees, and ordinarily, anyone without a medical degree who offers "medical advice" we call a charlatan, or worse, so why would we write or call our "congressman" to solve a medical problem ?

What politicians most often DO have is "expertise" in law, and that knowledge seldom lends itself to benefitting those who are born at the bottom of the class system we currently inhabit.

JB

[Dani Cutler]

Hello there James, thank you for your always insightful thoughts. This sums it up for me:

"Problems are solved because people care about each other, because people see another person's pain as easily their own under different circumstances, and because it is the right thing to do - no matter how much it costs."

The government is always going to be spending our money- and spending millions. It's a matter of where our money gets the best use. Military? I'm sorry, but there needs to be some major redistributing of funds within our own government. I don't see anyone who is against government funded health care yelling to cut the extremely bloated military budget.

Government isn't going away- so we need to use it to help those who they should be helping. That would be Americans. Americans who shouldn't be discriminated against (in regards to health care) just because they are poor, jobless, or homeless.

America needs to get its priorities straight.