Health.
This one’s for you America. Here’s the deal. The constant he said she said OMFG HE DIIIIIIIIIIIITUNT?!?! Re: health care reform is pissing me off. A lot. So here for everyone that can make it successfully from A to Z is the bottom line:
With the reforms you, yes YOU; average American, will only be the same or in some (actually in fact quite a lot of) cases better off. You can only win from this reform.
Who will lose? The insurance companies. But they need not lose, they will just have to work harder to earn your $$s. But isn’t good ‘ol free market competition what America is built upon? The current situation in health care is far from this with the case in some states being that two insurance companies provide up to 80% of insurance. That is hardly competition thrashing out the best price for the consumer.
If anything these such situations that pervade the nation are distinctly “unAmerican” - as the former administration would have put it.
Ignore the ravings of the illiterate Alaskan, under the current system death panels potentially exist for all in a climate were unemployment is at an all time high.
So which side of the fence do you sit on? Do you want a system of genuine private health insurance competition combined with a government provided safety net for those of retirement age as well as those who have fallen upon hard times? (And really: don’t go there saying that this will never be you.) Or would you rather line the insurance companies pockets as they exist competition free, taking your money indefinitely only to be thrown by the wayside in your hour of need when for example a job loss and a pre-existing condition combine?
Also, one final point. Illegal Aliens. We all know that this means Mexicans to most people.
1. Get the illusions of people pole vaulting over the border in order to gain access to free health care in the US out of your head. Mexico already has a very respectable public health system.
2. Illegal aliens are in fact an integral part of the US work force. Why don’t you deny them free health care when American citizens themselves are willing to work in the fields and other undesirable industries for far less than minimum wage?
All other industrial developed nations have a public health option of some description apart from the USA. It doesn’t exactly reflect well upon the bastion of world wide democracy and freedom.
