November 11, 2009 4:15 PM
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Everybody seems so confused about National Health Care, but I fail to see what is so confusing about it. It?s at least as important and vital as Police and Fire Protection, Military Preparedness and the minimum Education we now provide. Social Security was enacted to make sure our elderly had something that would ensure they would be able to exist, if only minimally, and finally Medicare since we recognized that the cost of health care for the oldest of our population was prohibitive.
The only real problem is dishonesty of our politicians, and self interest groups. It?s easy to understand why the insurance and drug companies would want to avoid Health Care Reform at most any cost. What really needs to be addressed in order to move this Dream into Reality for the American Citizen and Corporate America is a face off with our elected officials. It?s obvious our elected officials are far more interested in re-election coffers being tended to by the drug and insurance companies. If you have any doubt, just look back when Part D was dealt with for Medicare. By the time it was all over, we found it illegal to go out of the United States to buy drugs, even if they were cheaper, and it was illegal to negotiate the cost of drugs even though every country dose so. It really is immaterial weather the politician is democrat or republican, they are compromised with self ambition and have no regard for reality, honesty, integrity much less what is best for the people they represent. Anyone who really can?t see the benefit of National Health Care for America is far more than one brick short of a load, and will be the ones that will need it the most.