Is there a point?
Jul. 9th, 2009 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42So I went a-rallying today. Ironic thing is that I did it for something I don't actually believe in.
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) organized a rally in front of my Senator's office in town in support of the Public Plan option because Sen Shaheen, while a democrat, has not declared herself in favor of the option.
I can kind of understand why, seeing as it is a plan doomed to failure (hence why I don't believe in it), but on the other hand, single-payer (which is far more affordable and viable) isn't going to get anywhere, especially if conservatives aren't even going to support school lunch programs!
However, the Public Plan is what is on offer, and it's much better than the status quo, so I held up a sign and signed the petition and talked to Shaheen's aids, telling them that the Nation's health care is as vital as National Security. We shouldn't have to fear being bombed, but nor should we fear bankruptcy because of illness (or, in GM and Chrysler's case, because of the insurance costs). Health care is a basic human right along with access to clean water, air, food and shelter. (Sadly, those are lacking as well, but that's a different rant.)
I hate this country sometimes. And this health care debate is really highlighting the things that are Wrong with this nation. The poor and sick are poor and sick through their own fault and why should those who have more wealth or health help? It's nothing to do with them after all.
And even that isn't completely true. Most people want substantial change. 76% of those polled are in favor of the public option, but the representatives are hemming and hawing about it because if they vote for it, the insurance and drug industries are going to withdraw their promised funds. And the media, funded mostly by the arch conservative Rupert Murdoch, is saying that it is going to lead to Nationalization and we'll have crap care like the Brits do.
Forgetting to mention, of course, the expensive crap care we get here, just with more bells, whistles and prettier lobbies.
Also not mentioning that the plan is more along the lines of Canada's system, rather than Britain's, which only nationalizes the insurance rather than the care.
Anyway. I am losing hope. Big business wins each and every time, and it seems that we don't have leaders willing to think or act big enough to accomplish sustainable change when greed is on the line.
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) organized a rally in front of my Senator's office in town in support of the Public Plan option because Sen Shaheen, while a democrat, has not declared herself in favor of the option.
I can kind of understand why, seeing as it is a plan doomed to failure (hence why I don't believe in it), but on the other hand, single-payer (which is far more affordable and viable) isn't going to get anywhere, especially if conservatives aren't even going to support school lunch programs!
However, the Public Plan is what is on offer, and it's much better than the status quo, so I held up a sign and signed the petition and talked to Shaheen's aids, telling them that the Nation's health care is as vital as National Security. We shouldn't have to fear being bombed, but nor should we fear bankruptcy because of illness (or, in GM and Chrysler's case, because of the insurance costs). Health care is a basic human right along with access to clean water, air, food and shelter. (Sadly, those are lacking as well, but that's a different rant.)
I hate this country sometimes. And this health care debate is really highlighting the things that are Wrong with this nation. The poor and sick are poor and sick through their own fault and why should those who have more wealth or health help? It's nothing to do with them after all.
And even that isn't completely true. Most people want substantial change. 76% of those polled are in favor of the public option, but the representatives are hemming and hawing about it because if they vote for it, the insurance and drug industries are going to withdraw their promised funds. And the media, funded mostly by the arch conservative Rupert Murdoch, is saying that it is going to lead to Nationalization and we'll have crap care like the Brits do.
Forgetting to mention, of course, the expensive crap care we get here, just with more bells, whistles and prettier lobbies.
Also not mentioning that the plan is more along the lines of Canada's system, rather than Britain's, which only nationalizes the insurance rather than the care.
Anyway. I am losing hope. Big business wins each and every time, and it seems that we don't have leaders willing to think or act big enough to accomplish sustainable change when greed is on the line.
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Date: 2009-07-10 08:03 am (UTC)