The Essential Difference Between The Democrat HCR Plan and The Republican HCR Plan
Posted: Saturday, February 27, 2010
by Dan Bimrose
Liberal Fix
At the health care summit on Thursday much ado was made about the common ground that Republicans and Democrats share in their two plans.
Yes, there is a great deal that we could possibly compromise on. Of course Obama would not be able to endorse any compromise deal because that would necessitate a "no" vote by the Republicans.
In a study released from Harvard in the fall of 2009 it was found that 45,000 people die every year because they are uninsured. If we do a little more math we discover that about every 12 minutes someone dies due to the lack of health insurance.
This is the part that boggles my mind. I cannot even wrap my head around the concept that this is acceptable to anyone.
The health reform debate which has been held up for no reason other than politics has cost us dearly. Some obviously more than others. Some have paid for that debate with their life.
We can make every economic argument in the book for strong health care reform with a robust public option, but why do we have to.
People are dying.
Every day that this continues, people are dying.
Every day there are people making the hard choice about whether or not they should seek expensive treatment and bankrupt their family so that they can live or do nothing, so their family can eat. I dare say, no one should have to make this decision. It should disgust every American that our country allows this and that there are many fighting to keep it this way.
People are dying.
Republicans have vowed to block meaningful health reform at all costs. They pat themselves on the back and they say that they are fighting for us. No, no they are not. They are fighting for their political future.
People are dying.
Why is this not the central issue in this matter. Are votes worth more than the lives of our citizens? I certainly hope not. Yet it is becoming increasingly clear that those votes are so sought after, so cherished, so beloved that many in our Congress will sacrifice human lives.
Not only are they willing to do this, but they already have. In a little over a year tens of thousands of American citizens have died.
Many Tea Party activists, conservatives, Republicans frequently use the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to support their claims. I would like to do the same
From the Declaration of Indepence:
We hold these truths to be self–evident,
That all men are created equal,
That they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights,
That among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
According to this declaration we have the unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It seems rather obvious but we are denied our right to life if we are dead. We cannot possess liberty, if we are dead. We cannot pursue happiness if we are dead.
The free market has failed to provide us with 100% coverage of our population. It never will. It is in the best interest of the insurance industry to insure only those who do not need insurance. It has been well demonstrated the lengths
they will go to deny coverage to the people who most desperately need that coverage.
Finally, if I am reading the Declaration correctly we instituted or created this government to provide us with those rights that many are currently being denied.
It is time for our government to fulfill this obligation to the American people.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)It's obvious when considering all the interconnections and complications of health care that our present system is a travesty, which is an opinion agreed upon by the entire industrialized world. Total, complete socialized medicine is the only answer and will become law eventually. It just depends on how many lives will be lost and how many will suffer greatly before the current health care system completely falls apart, which it eventually must. It's going to be hell for lots of folks in the mean time.Please log in to respond to this comment.
I only wish it was as simple as you make it out to be. Both sides need to wise up and remember they are public servants.Please log in to respond to this comment.
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