Pelosi's Switch on the Dem's Pitch for Health Care

It's hard to comment on this article because details are still so very sketchy. It's equally difficult to know how much of what we will hear from politicians is sell and how much will be the actual meat. What is being left unsaid that we aren't sufficiently aware of ? Will the 48 million be covered or not? Will the necessary changes regarding waste and fraud from both ends and quality of care be made or not? And how? Need more info...!

The US will continue its decline into third world status with a first world facade unless and until it joins the civilized world and provides for its citizens. All civilized countries on Earth, including the French, Canadians, Japanese and British, to name a few, even that tiny little island of Cuba, utilize taxpayer dollars for the benefit of their citizens and provide better health care than Americans have for a FRACTION of what we pay private insurers. The USA is the only nation in the civilized world where citizens can go bankrupt and end up homeless because they had the poor fortune to get ill. And why? Because the private insurance lobby has more influence on the certifiable whores in congress than the American taxpayer. OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE NOT USED FOR THE BENEFIT OF MOST AMERICANS: Instead, American tax dollars are used to bail out bloated, greedy investors and banksters when their shitty investments are exposed for the Ponzi schemes they always were, without penalty or recourse to those who caused this problem to begin with. Why should American taxpayers take out a LOAN from the Fed at INTEREST in order to bail out these frauds? The obscene amounts of money for which American taxpayers have taken an at interest (5%) LOAN from the Fed in order to finance these bailouts have actually been used in part, by their recipients, to LOBBY CONGRESS AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER!!!! Instead of trillions to these frauds, why not pay off EVERYONE's mortgage? This would accomplish precisely what the alleged purpose of the bailouts is -- to recapitalize the banks; make these "toxic" assets good and at the same time save communities from becoming ghost towns as their inhabitants continue to get kicked out of their homes. Why can we reward the incessant and unending greed of these bankers and financial fraudsters with regulation/accountability -free tax dollars while refusing to "bail out" average people who are on the other side of these toxic transactions? The claim that helping the average taxpayer is socialism is a MYTH. Socialism is the state-controlled means of PRODUCTION and DISTRBUTION. Look it up sometime. Using tax dollars to assist taxpayers is at the nexus of our system. Read the Constitution, particularly the Preamble. But in a nation addicted to "Survivor" it is not difficult to understand that the people are ignorant enough to believe that giving trillions to fraudulent financiers to save them from having to be responsible for their own follys is somehow different from giving substantially less amounts to ordinary people. If one is "socialism" then surely the other is as well -- it's just a matter of the degree of giveaway. Instead, American tax dollars are used to finance foreign wars, which result in causing death and destructions to MILLIONS of innocent people abroad. Instead, American tax dollars are used to subsidize Frankenfarming by Monstanto and ADM, whose GM crops are destroying the indigenous food supply, bankrupting farmers and ultimately depleting the supply of good, nutritious food around the world. Instead, American tax dollars are used to subsidize big pharamceutical companies who continue to experiment on impoverished human beings in Africa and elsewhere; who charge grossly inflated prices for drugs in the USA, which drugs are easily available elsewhere in the world for a fraction of the cost; and who spend MILLIONS of those ill-gotten dollars lobbying our "lawmakers" (i.e., the rubber stamps in congress who push the legislation authored by these corporations) to make laws in their favor and who have managed to stack the FDA with compliant cronies and sycophants. On the subject of health care: Insurance is not health care. It's insurance. And the private insurance industry has been allowed to run amuk and cherry pick insureds to the point where the only people who can get insurance are those who don't need it. The private insurance industry spends more fighting claims than paying them (I include not only litigation but the personnel whose job it is to reject claims all the way up the line). Regan's legacy of "hooray for me and screw you" has infected the American population who now have no problems throwing billions and trillions of tax dollars at millionaire fraudsters and financial incompetents who have managed to destroy the economic well being of this country, but who in the same breath, strongly disapprove using any of their tax dollars to assist ordinary people in need.. The US will continue its decline into third world status and 99% of the American population will slide into near poverty, unless its citizens learn that for our country to be strong and healty again, ALL Americans must have basic services, including health care. Yes, sometimes that means paying someone else's way. However why is it more appealing to pay a millionaire's way out of his/her bad debt, than to help a struggling poor person? The image of the "lazy" poor person is another unfortunate Reagan legacy that must be jettisoned if this country is to survive. Just because someone is wealthy doesn't mean they work any harder than someone else who is poor. THAT IS A MYTH. In fact, Bankers don't work for a living -- they are scum sucking parasites who got fat off of EVERYONE's back with their "emperor's new money" (debt based monetary system) (see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279) while many poor people often work 2-3 jobs just to put a meager meal on the table, often having to choose between having utilities or rent from month to month -- those who are fortunate enough to be able to afford a home. Single payer universal health care would be a small start for a nation filled with self absorbed "individualists" who continue to assert their independence until, of course, they find themselves needing a handout. Then all of a sudden, they singi a different toon. Until people realize that we must provide for each other, according to need, not caprice; that we are all brothers and sisters in this and, that our greatest duty is to each other, the US will continue its backslide into flagrant barbarism. Another down side to an unhealthy population is that it simply isn't SANITARY or good for everyone else. Plague, disease and pestilence often become pandemic when millions go without appropriate health care. And to the obscenely wealthy of this country who already have theirs, it is useful to remember that germs and bacteria don't give a shit what's in your portfolio. If the US is ever to reclaim her status as a genuine first world nation; a beacon for the rest of the world; it must start by providing for the basic needs of its citizens. After all, that's why we agree to pay taxes, isn't it? For the common good and the general welfare. Well, it's time to start attending to that business and a great place to start is with a universal health care system, JUST LIKE every other civilized nation on Earth has. I favor the single payer plan since it excises the private insurance industry altogether -- let it continue to insure "stuff" and not people's health -- but other countries have succeeded with other models (i.e., Japan) Otherwise, we should just get comfortable in our decline and accept the fact that the US's run as a world leader is over.