We seem mighty close to having a health care bill the President can sign by next week. However, I take nothing for granted and will believe it when the ink is dry. It has been one muddy, uphill battle with those in opposition at times screaming in our faces. Yelling down their representatives at town hall meetings. They didn't want answers. Thier main pupose was to disrupt and that they did.
It was during the fall when I felt my bleakest, my least powerful, afraid any bill would go down to defeat. Yet something inside me made me keep going.
And then the end of the year occurred. Health premiums shot up by double digit percentages. Deductibles were out of reach. Drug formularies changed to cover fewer drugs and/or fewer doses. Anthem had the nerve to try to raise some of its premiums in California 39%. Suddenly the people screamed at them and they backed down until May, 2010.
We are so close, let's sign this bill and move on. Improve it. Make it better. But sign the damn bill, as Ed Schultz said on MSNBC.
I don't care about government chamber procedure or snappy phrases of importance. Just sign it.
I promised even though I have decent coverage now, I will not stop fighting until all American citizens have the same coverage. You can take it to the bank. I have not forgotten you. I promise to fight even harder now that we are so close. Don't give up. Fight with me. Let's try to get 9 more votes for a public option. If we can't, still demand signature on the bill we have.
We will get there from here. I am rekindled with fight I didn't think I had in me. Congressmen and Senators are bailing at an alarming rate. As if to say, "O.K., I'll vote for it but then I'm going home."
Don't worry. I'll stay and fight for you.
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Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com
Comments
no it's not because they are cruel or racist.
one, the constitution does not give the federal government the power force the people to purchase a good or service.
people have the opportunity to recieve health care. so many do for free every day. i mean thats why so many hospitals go belly up or close the emergency rooms.
reason two, no one should be forced to pay the bills of someone else.
Jesus taught to be kind and charitable to others. that is to do because you want to. He never taught that the government is to take from one person and give to a another.
the government can easily come up with a much cheaper way to provide insurance coverge to poor folk without wreaking the whole system
health care is not a right, our rights are given by God not the government. the problem with socialism is that one day you run out of other peoples money.
look at europe so many socialistic countries are falling apart like greece. they ran out of other peoples money.
hey health care for all i agree, but i am not supposed to the bill.
social justice is a marxist idea