Asking The Wrong Questions- Healthcare

There is a concerted obstructionist policy coming from the GOP and some lame-brained dems who think that everything this country does for health care should be measured against "how it will pay for itself", as if our taxes are not for helping our people.

The Healthcare Companies, the ones who have doubled and quadrupled their profits every quarter, while denying legitimate claims, and denying access to those who need it, have lobbied congress heavier than at anytime past. There are 6 healthcare lobbyists per congressman in DC.

Aside from false ads that want us to think that government health care will destroy our system and put government between us and our doctors, they also want us to think that healthcare should be made to pay for itself.

Primarily, they want us to forget that it is the bean counters and clerks that are standing between us and our doctors, and who prevent us from getting treatments and who deny legitimate claims. People suffer and die from these practices as they exist today. People go bankrupt from these practices as they exist today. People lose their homes and commit suicide from these practices as they exist today.

Who would not want to change this? Who would not want a more fair and equitable system? Employers want it. It would cut their costs dramatically. People want it as it would mean we would be able to treat illnesses before they became more serious. People could make easier decisions regarding their pregnancies and the health of their children. More children with serious health issues would be allowed to live, because the costs would not bankrupt the parents, and so if the suffering of that child was not an issue, and that should please the Lifers because now their tax dollars can go to the care and keeping of those born with multiple traumatic defects.

Insurance companies don't want it. They don't want to have to compete for a fair price for their product. They don't want to have to be held to a standard of compassion and fairness that the government would be held to. They don't want people to feel like they have a choice. They just want the money to come to them.

Health Insurance companies COULD still make a very good profit if a public option was their direct competition. They just could not make the obscene profits while denying services to those who have already paid for them. That is their problem.

Now, for the latest Straw Man the opposition to the Public Option Health Care. "How is this going to pay for itself?"

It doesn't have to. This is what we do to take care of our own. This is what we do to protect the health and safety of our own. This is what we do to protect our economy. This is what we do to protect the public at large.

No one asks how the Military is going to pay for itself. No one asks how the war is going to pay for itself. We assume both of those are to protect us, and our way of life.

Health care is no different.

But if "Paying for itself" is a criteria in Congress, let us start asking that about a lot more: About the military, the wars, the health care that the Congress receives, about the office help and about their salaries, their junkets, and a whole slew of other "costly" issues.

Now, get on it.