Deal us a fair hand.
August 19th, 2009 | Published in Most things go here
When the process of change is impeded by the process itself, is change possible? Is pragmatism an option?
From a pragmatic standpoint the debate on health care reform in the U.S is at odds with itself. The underlying concern is to get 47 million or so uninsured people insured. But if you take the word insurance out of the equation – the idea is to help 47 million people if they get sick. To make sure that people are able to get health care – that’s the simple truth, it’s not complicated as a concept.
It’s not about insurance companies, it’s not about governments, it’s not about the medical association – it’s about people, every day people, people like you.
It’s about you, your family, your friends, your neighbors, your street, your city etc. It’s not about health-care for the rich and well off, it’s not about going into more debt to get health care, it’s not about poor people not being able to have access to health-care.
The sad irony seems to me from watching some of these “town hall” meetings with the irate lunatics from either the left or the right yelling and screaming about socialism, big government, death panels and what ever other nonsense they can come up with is that, there’s little mention of people, just that. People.
I wonder if the U.S system of democracy is broken? I know there is lots of talk about conspiracy, this and that – I don’t believe it’s a case of conspiracy, I think the evidence is clear – democracy in the U.S is controlled by very very wealthy groups – and these groups have their agendas and their interests at heart. End of story.
Most of the town hall medical reform diatribe doesn’t appear to be based on fact or logic – the placards being waved and the yelling nut-jobs are not informed, insanity all around. Media is in it for the cash, not the truth, certainly not to offer a non-biased opinion, the politicians are twisted and led by the corporations, the constituents are pawns in a game that’s way to big and expensive for them to even sit at the table.
So how does anything “good” get done. How do we, as people get a “fair-deal”, when the cards are stacked and the tables crooked.
