I wish this healthcare bill were a Cadillac limousine instead of a used Chevy. It's not a great bill. It'll leave the insurance company in charge of healthcare by and large.
Still, my advice to people who support a brighter future for our country is to support this bill. It places limits on abuse.
And if Democrats find themselves possessed of the gonads to pass healthcare reform, who knows, they might next find the courage to put an end to outrageous usury. They might find ways to fund higher education in ways that don't ruin families. They might find ways of keeping more people in their homes. Of fighting greenhouse gases. Ending mountaintop removal and building down defense spending.
So much depends on healthcare reform.
Every day momentum grows toward passage. Dennis Kucinich and others are lining up, and you should too, if you believe in equitable healthcare. Phone, email and fax your representatives, your senators, your cousin Myrtle and Uncle Darryl who suddenly have ceased to bring up those death panels. Maybe they've come to realize death panels have been convening for decades. They're composed of insurance executives and actuarial analysts who routinely drive the last nails into tens of thousands of coffins annually through tactics that should've long since become scandalous.
You know what I mean. By sandbagging just claims, by citing pre-existing condition, by trapping people into providing false information on deliberately confusing registration forms. I know people who shy away from going to doctors from fear of getting diagnosed with a condition that will disqualify them from future coverage.
Somewhere along the lines, the majority of Americans forgot how to be scandalized.
It's time we the sheep grew fangs and struck back against the wolves running our country into the ground.
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