Health Care Reform: The War on Verbal Terrorism
Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by nostraboris in health care prevention
It’s easy to destroy. A resentful few can hijack an open society without much effort. Setting off a bomb turns heads, stalls progress, and does not require having anything constructive to say. Like insurgents in Iraq, cynical Right wing conservatives are obstructing progress in America with a rhetorical bombing campaign.
Right now, the main front in the war on domestic verbal terror seems to be health care reform. Ominous TV ads funded by insurance corporations seek to install fear. The terms “bureaucrat”, “socialized medicine”, and “rationed care” litter the atmosphere, like explosions in Baghdad. Pelting us with their verbal feces, the corporate monkeys claim that America has the best system in the world, ignoring the 40 million tax payers that don’t have access to it.
Insurance companies are not founded to help sick people get treatment. They make a profit from collecting premiums, and benefit from denying people care, or dropping them. What if the Fire or Police department was run the same way as health care? Should firemen only respond to 911 calls from people who’s employers offer fire coverage? Should the cops only go to neighborhoods that have no pre-existing crime?
Outside of our system, no sick person has ever been denied care for having a pre-existing condition.
Other than anecdotal fear mongering, I have not heard a single valid point against government health care. Unfortunately, that doesn’t really seem to matter as long as the misinformation campaign continues.
How could any entrepreneur friendly politician object to freeing small businesses from the burden of providing health benefits to employees?
Only a schizophrenic opposes socialism, and then files for bankruptcy when his medical bills pile up.
