Protests Meant To Make Health Care Fuzzy
Well I guess the Conservative Right has succeeded, at least for now, in giving America a possibly fatal dose of amnesia. Town Hall style meetings are popping up everywhere with reps returning from Washington attempting to get feed back on what should and should not be in the health care bill. However, they are apparently being met by protesters ranting about how they want the health care system to stay the same. Really? Is that what Americans really want or have special interest (insurance companies, tea baggers, etc.) groups succeeded in creating confusion and rhetoric about what staying the same actually means?
For our health care to stay the same it means pharmaceutical companies continue to have their way with American’s wallets, insurance company coverage policies can still be as erratic as a doorman selecting who gets into an exclusive nightclub and those same insurers can boot you out of their club at will for the mere reason they may actually have to spend money on your medical needs. Is the Right that good that they can induce this kind of of mental stupor on Americans and make them that melancholy over the the way things were… or should it be said, the way things still are?
If the question is honestly asked and honestly answered, do you think insurance companies currently care more about the health of the patients they cover versus the bottom line of their ledger books, what do you believe the over whelming answer would be? What is really going on when a person stands on a front lawn of a church with a gun in plain view as those in favor of health care reform walk by? Are we still talking about health care or has the conservative right tapped into something else? The greater question is, are these the folks Americans want to be deciding the debate on health care. Health care reform should not be about being Pro-Obama or Anti-Obama, it should be about do you really truly believe that our current health care system is actually about health care or profit.
The big question that has been floated about directly and indirectly by those who suddenly feel America is better off staying pat with regard to health care reform is: If our health care system is so poor why do others from outside of the United States flock here for procedure? The answer to that is very simple, when they come here they are coming for the facilities, doctor and science. Period. These people are not coming here and wondering if they are going to be dropped by an insurer. In fact, if they’re coming here one better believe that arrangements for who’s footing the bill has already been made. And once they’re done with their procedure they’re not looking at a long stay in a hospital, they there until it’s safe for them to travel back to where they came from.
But this is fuzzy time for America when it comes to health care. Those who have health care are being whipped into a lather about how their care is going to change because forty eight million of those who don’t have coverage now have a life line to coverage. That attitude just out and out smells. It smells of elitism and goes directly to the position of: “Hey, this is America. If you can’t afford health care you don’t deserve it.” Is that where we really are? I wonder how many of those protesters are among the forty eight million who currently don’t have health care?
The biggest problem with this ‘fuzzy memory’ health care protest is not that it blocks anything, it’s that it stops meaningful dialogue about everything. Meaningful consideration of what direction health care reform should or should not be going in, is being shouted down at meetings and discouraged by a “no” that is based in rumor and misinformation. And though this makes for good TV and news these tactics to put the fuzz on America’s recent health care woes do nothing to propagate a healthy future for all Americans. If we fail this time at this chance to start down a better health care road, how sharp will America’s memory be then? Or if this is a form of national Alzheimer’s disease, will America be covered?
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