This says it well.
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As for the next one, while it illustrates exactly what the broken health care system is doing to the uninsured and underinsured, it does not depict what the yelling in the back office is all about. It makes it appear that the two sides are having a justifiable disagreement…that somehow Dems and Repubs are both too busy fighting with each other than to actually care about those waiting for reform. Reality says something differently.
Dems do care about fixing the health care system. It has only been Democratic administrations that have taken on the task of substantially reforming health care. Republicans on the other hand have ignored the problem and blocked reform for the last sixty years. Nothing has changed. Their latest talking point about doing change incrementally is just another transparent ploy in an attempt to block any serious attempt at negotiating a compromise.
The perfect illustration of what is happening is to take the above image and place it in the back office behind the glass. People are dying and Republicans don’t care. The interests of health care industry lobbyists takes clear precedent over the dying of innocent Americans.
Bill Maher made an important point last night. He spoke about Republicans being in rage over the deaths caused by Toyota’s faulty brake system. They’ve helped convene congressional hearings and investigations and have vowed to do right for Americans. Good. That’s exactly what should be done but here’s the irony.
Total number of Americans killed by Toyota’s errors: 34
Number of Americans killed by being uninsured: 45,000 EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
Republican approach? The Toyota problem must immediately be rectified. As for the broken health care system, leave it be, because according to them, it is the “best health care system in the world.”
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I was not at all surprised to see that the Republicans declared themselves winners in Thursday’s healthcare forum. They usually do that, no matter what occurs. But it would surprise me that they could think that the viewing public did not see through their obstructive posturing. There is one thing that this forum made crystal clear. Republicans want to create a pseudo-healthcare system with no minimum standards of care, so that they can put the currently uninsured citizens in this standard free service. This way they can close their eyes to real reform and keep their insurance cronies in the money.
You can not put together a pool of people that the insurance company deems un-insurable because they want higher profit margins and expect the government to pick up the tab. Every business does not want to have expenses, but they do and the insurance industry should not believe that we should take on their expenses so that they can make higher profits.