National Health Care

People are screaming at town hall meetings as if the country has never heard of the recognition for at least a hundred years, that there was a need for it.

There was a time when there were no doctors and hospitals in most areas. Or maybe one quack every 100 miles.

In 1912 Teddy Roosevelt put a platform plank in his run for National Health Insurance.
In 1945 Harry Truman just after WW2 proposed such a plan. It was defeated by doctors, Associations, and conservatives.
In 1965 Medicare was finally approved for sick and old people--just a portion of what was needed for everyone.
In 1993 Bill Clinton asked for National Health Care and it also was defeated by AMA, doctors and insurance companies and a hatred of his wife was used as a tool.

This is the same thing as public schools! Not too many years ago if you got any schooling at all it was part-time and by non-professionals. Third grade educations was common, then finally seventh grade in the early 20th century.
Even our doctors and engineers were self trained which of course ruled out any poor people.
Now maybe we send too many too far into school!

It is a good thing to gouge people who seemingly won't help themselves due to ignorance, heritage, laziness, etc., but not in the area of civilized health treatment without begging for it.
If you wish to have them work, then see to it that there is one for everyone and make them do it.

Some progress has been made in shelter for poor people and even to the point of assisting people to buy mansions, but no follow up was given to keep them from rotting down!
Then we allowed anyone to buy a wonderful house without even a job!
Another case of no follow-up.

You are wasting your time this time fighting good health care. Get into it and support it but with suggesting changes you want instead of saying no to anything.

We The People

Submitted by Joe Kawfi on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 11:58am.

The people have read the thousand-page health care bill. And when their elected representatives reluctantly return to their district for recess and town hall meetings, they have questions about the facts. And when those questions are answered with the same sort of lies, misrepresentations and misdirection peddled each and every day from Capitol Hill they understandably get angry.

See, Congress hasn't much had the American people in mind recently. They have thrown the nation into debt which we will not be capable of bearing for long. They have abandoned all promises of transparency and bipartisanship, taking steps to shut down, shut out and shut up any and all opposition and dissent from Republican Party officials and individual Americans alike, whether the issue be so-called economic stimulus, or the global transfer of wealth, destruction of the economy and death of American exceptionalism disguised not-so-cleverly as energy and environmental legislation. President Obama and congress don't listen. So we shout. And you don't like it.

That's where you get the idea that we're a bunch of rabble rousers. When the President and Congress will not admit to the fact that the majority of Americans are against their plan that would ultimatly destroy private insurance and drive up the cost of health care, we get mad. Real, mad. Really, really angry and mad.

The problem, however, is that it is the American people who are gasping for breath, who are begging to be heard, who are clamoring for a chance to ensure that our children and our children's children are not worn raw from the bondage of debt.

Y'all think we're crazy? You ain't seen crazy yet.

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Submitted by S. Lindsey on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 9:10pm.

nuff said...

"Any People who expect to be both IGNORANT and FREE, in a state of CIVILIZATION, expects what NEVER was and NEVER will be."
THOMAS JEFFERSON

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