I want to address the inherent ignorance in the Republican’s health care arguments. Ignorance is the real enemy here.
Planned Parenthood, and this is for the ignorant, is way more about prevention of women’s health crises than abortion. I didn’t say stupid, I said ignorant. Stupid implies they’ll never get it. Ignorance simply means they haven’t gotten it yet. And if we think all Americans should be covered, think about that. Why, then, do we need insurance? We simply need a delivery system for health care for all.
Insurance is really a dumb idea when it comes to health care. For a company to make a profit they need to take more money in than they pay out. Got that? Take more money in than they pay out. When they have to pay out for care and it exceeds what they take in the model fails and they pull out or raise prices.
With single payer we pay out to care providers via taxes paid by all of us as some of us fervently believe that it’s immoral to be a healthy person and deny others the right to the same health. And if the system’s single payer it can be designed to address weight issues which is a national epidemic. And preventive care for all applicable health issues which saves money, lots of money in the long run.
We can see this in a microcosm in our own lives. Eat well, drink moderately or not at all, don’t smoke; these things lead to a healthier existence which saves money. But when ignorance is allied with fear, distrust, religious moralizing, we get what we’ve got. And it’s not good.
Ignorance is the sickness we must address and we’ll do it by uniting like minded people who will take control of the government from the small minded who only seem to be able to imagine a better world as one where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and get sick and die.
We most likely cannot change these people, but we can lead by example, unite and give them the system enjoyed by every other industrialized nation. Arch conservative Brit, Maggie Thatcher, never railed about health care. Why? Because a member of the Labor Party in Britain post World War II stood up and made a profound statement that still makes sense in modern day America. To effect, he said if we can find the money to kill Germans we can find the money to provide health care to all of our citizens. And they did it and regardless of what the anti-single payer forces in this country say, it works beautifully. For everyone. No one is denied care or sent into bankruptcy when tragic illness strikes. They all just take care of each other.
Think about that next time some politician insists we need more money for the nearly $800 billion we spend on defense. This is double what we spent in 2000. Please do some reading, do some research, ask questions. And stay away from the lie-peddling propaganda arms of corporate America. These are the ones that say climate change is in question, right?
Watch Earth Under Water on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baGrtqyWSRM). Just once. Then tell me that global warming is a hoax. Then? Question everything you think you know. Please. The health of our nation and our planet depends on you growing as a thinking human being. And both patients need you right now.
Thomas Jefferson said it best: “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
And you know what? We can do this. It’s within our grasp. But we must seize back the control of the federal government and do likewise on the state level by showing the majority of Americans who support health care for all that there is a way. And this is it.
Reflex Blue 