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My newest column at American Issues Project is up, examining whether time has warmed the American people to the idea of a public option. The answer is, of course, a resounding no.
As the health care reform bill makes its way through the legislative process, Americans aren’t getting more comfortable with or optimistic about it. They remain firmly against a public option, and most people are satisfied with the current health care system we have in America. While no one can deny that change is needed, the kind of change that Obama and the Democrats are proposing isn’t the kind of change the majority of Americans want. Tort reform, for example, is grossly needed and would alleviate some of the costs associated with health care, but Democrats aren’t interested in tort reform — that would anger their lawyer benefactors, after all. What Democrats are interested in is taking the first step towards a single-payer system, and multiple Democrat politicians have admitted that a plan like Obama’s health care reform plan would be the best way to achieve a single-payer health care system. Does it matter that Americans are ardently against it? Probably not.
The newest Rasmussen polling data shows that Americans are really starting to worry. 63% of voters think that the guarantee of no one being forced to change their health care is more important than a public option. And while liberals, of course, disagree, moderates and conservatives are united on this topic.
Americans are realizing what government run health care truly means. The danger signs are everywhere — from the recommendation of doctor-assisted suicide in the Oregon Health Plan to the callous end-of-life recommendations for veterans in “Your Life, Your Choices”. Be sure to find out the details about that and more over at AIP.
My father served 5 tours in Vietnam. He also served in Angola, South Korea, Egypt, Germany, and allover the US. He also jumped in to Grenada and Panama. My father served his country for almost 30 years. He was an only child and he and his mother had to sign a waver to allow him to join. My father is a hero.
Just this past Saturday my father got this trash. I called him yesterday to tell him the dates and times I am coming in December. I called the VA in Lakewood to complain. I got a recording. I called again 2 hours later and got a woman who told me that it was a new policy. When I explained to her that this policy is a blivit (10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag) she hung up on me. I called back and demanded her supervisor and I was told he was on lunch. I’ll be calling back today. (I have to remember the 9 hour difference)
Veterans please call your local VA Reps and let them know how you feel.
I myself and a veteran. I have also served my country with honor and pride. If this is how they want to repay us then we need to stand up and express the same freedoms we swore to defend!
Choice for Veterans, or any other group like the elderly, is not a slippery slope. Lethal rationing already exists, administered by insurance companies who are lobbying hard to prevent a public option. We have nothing to fear from health care reform but the overly-dramatic, factless threats of “euthanasia” and “death panels.”
Tort reform may ameliorate law suits but it won’t slow the over-testing, over-treating, and over-medicating we suffer at the hands of the medical industry – to no greater health benefits. The US is ranked 37th in the world in health care quality. Private health care has become a cash cow for corporations.
You have gone the wrong way with your concerns. Your misdirection damages the quality of life and choice for all Americans, including the 50 million uninsured.
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