The Senate Finance Committee has passed their version of a reform bill.  Guess what?  I don’t see a lot to celebrate but both the majority party and the White House seem to think there is.

What kind of reform is this?  As drafted the proposal will leave 29,000,000 of our citizens without any kind of health insurance plan.  Wasn’t the whole purpose of this reform effort to give EVERYONE some kind of health care plan?

Guess not.  According to Senator Max Baugh of Montana, the chairman of the committee, this is a good plan that meets our needs.  Hello?

How can that be.  It is only half of what was promised.  In fact less than half, since more than half of the previously uninsured will still be without a viable health insurance option.

Crazy huh?  Only from our congress!

I suppose you had just better hope you are not one of those unlucky 29 MILLION people who will end up out in the cold (literally when it come to health care).

Surely we can do better.

We must not remain as the only developed nation in the world to abandon so many of our citizens.  The democrats PR guys and gals are careful to point out that 1/3 of the 29 million are illegal immigrants.  Wow!  That sure makes me feel good.  They are here aren’t they?  Why treat them so different when they are living and working and getting sick and dying right here in our country.

What happened to that equality that our founding fathers pointed out as so important? What does it say on the Statue of Liberty?  Not … ‘give us your healthy and rich and educated’ that is for sure.

Come on Congress!  Come on President Obama!  Wake up Republicans and Democrats!

If we are going to do this let’s do it right.

Health care for everyone!  Health care for a reasonable price!  Health insurance for everyone at a reasonable price!

That must mean no more frivolous lawsuits by greedy lawyers.  Forget tort reform as proposed by Senator Hatch.  Just make the loser pay all legal costs of any suit . . . and the lawyers pay half of that.  Whoppee that will put a screeching halt to frivolous lawsuits.  It also must mean limiting egregious profits for monopoly exempt health insurance companies and their high-paid executives who pay even higher-paid lobbyists.  Putting an end to excessive premiums and exclusions and refusal to insure is a must.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to do this right.

So let your congressman know that you want it done right and you don’t mind a relatively small increase in the deficit so that everyone benefits.  Heck, just cut some of the budget from congress’s perks and benefits and health insurance and that alone might cover the cost.

Call ‘em.  Write ‘em.  Email ‘em.

Let ‘em know we won’t stand for this incompetence any longer.

Then vote all incumbents out at every election until term limits becomes a fait accomplit!

Thanks for reading.  If you have a different take let me know.  If not do what you have to.

Thanks to flickr’s thetruthabout for the photo

So, to meet Obama’s stringent criteria of ‘no increase in deficit’ the dems leave half of the uninsured out of the system.  That really sucks!

Fact is that I (and I think most other reasonable Americans) would gladly have a modest increase in the deficit for this important civil right (health).  How much of a deficit?  Well, I would say $100 billion

To whom do we owe this disaster?? Who has been running this country for the last few years?? Do we have a decider?? Oops?I guess we do and therein lies the problem.?

A decider without the capacity to be?an analyzer is no decider at all.

This is not a propitious beginning to a positive change that has been promised for our country.

So, we turn the page and don’t blame anyone but . . . we gotta start now and not with 2-3 years of trillion $ deficits.? Let?GM go, let Chrysler go, let Citibank go . . . and on and on.? They failed us, we didn’t fail them.? We can’t support them.?

It will be an awful year anyway might as well clean house and get rid of the failures.? Look for success stories, don’t dwell on the dross.

For capitalism to?work it requires success at least 51% of the time.? If management can’t do it then let them go and start over.??Clean out the toxic waste of subprime and cdr’s (credit default swaps for the uninitiated).? Lets start over from scratch.? That would be real change and a beacon to the rest of the world.? The change agenda is needed, just do it right.

Hope you are reading Mr. Pres. elect!

thanks to bobster1985 at flickr for the photo!