If only the public option could be optional. :’(

Those of us like myself without health insurance will be better off with competition and choice, not with some health czar making decisions about the treatment we get, and our children and grandchildren going deeper into debt to pay for the outrageously inflated prices of lawyer-inflated and paperwork-inflated health care.

Apologists for the euphemistically-named “public option” and other manifestations of big government don’t want to talk about the alienating nature of the system. The U.S. federal government is in essence a giant corporation. The people who run it are not noble and public-minded — this is a big, fat, glaring myth that we all should have seen through by now. The reality is they are no less greedy and self-serving than the people who run non-government corporations.

U.S.A. Inc. has all kinds of blood and dirt on its hands, and it is so vast an enterprise that it does not even have internal accountability, let alone accountability to the people. Its agencies regularly *lose track of* billions of dollars! How ideologically blinded do you have to be not to see that giving more money and power to this organization is the height of folly???

Melissa – Hooray! I can’t decide if the next movie reference should be “Road House” or “Toxic Avenger.”

jacksmith – I didn’t read all of that. And I have a sneaking suspicion that you didn’t read the post.

The healthcare reform bill released by the House Of Representatives is an excellent bill as I understand it. It’s a bill with a strong, robust, government-run public option, and an intelligent, reasonable initial funding plan to cover almost all of the American people. It is carefully written, and thoughtfully constructed, informed, prudent and wise. This bill will save trillions of dollars, and millions of your lives. It is also now supported by the AMA.

This is the type of bill that all Americans can feel good about. And this is the type of bill that has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans. Rich, middle class and poor a like. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and all other party affiliations. This bill has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of life of every American.

The house healthcare bill should be viewed as the minimum GOLD STANDARD by which all other proposed healthcare legislation should be judged. All supporters of true high quality healthcare reform should now place all your support behind this healthcare reform bill released by the United States House Of Representatives, as the minimum Gold standard for healthcare reform in America.

You should all now support this bill with all your might, and all of your unrelenting tenacity. This healthcare bill is a VERY, VERY GOOD! bill for all of the American people. Fight tooth, and nail for every bit of this bill if you have too. Be aggressive, creative, and relentless for this bill.

From this time forward, go BIGGER and DEEPER with the American people every day until passage of healthcare reform with a robust, government-run public option.

FIGHT!! like your life and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. BECAUSE IT DOES!

It should also be noted that Ron Wyden’s “Free Choice Proposal” in the senate is a highly intriguing proposal and possibly a brilliant idea. And an Idea that should be strongly looked into as a way of increasing consumer choice, and consumer access to a government-run public option.

SPREAD THE WORD

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God Bless You

Jack Smith — Working Class