What does the American people have to sacrifice in order to achieve this goal? Will we loss benefits or will a thin body be the ultimate goal no matter what the cost to our overall long term health? How will handicapped individuals be treated in this one size fits all program? Will states be able to provide a public option or will the federal government kill this part of the bill? If your employers decides to go with other plans will you be able to keep your current doctor or is that just a goal to be sacrificed in order to pass this plan? Will they tax low income individuals just to pay for the plan? Will co-pays be so high that you can still not afford to see a doctor even though you are insured? Does cost containment take precedence over any individuals well being? Can one approach be applied to all individuals without killing people?
Far too many questions and few answers are what is being put out at present by the government. Members of the federal government are going to have to face some hard questions on this issue from the voting public. At some point voters are going to say either get something that we can live with or vote no for a plan that would not work. Some issues cannot be sacrificed in order just to get a plan. Decisions should be between a patient and their doctor therefore government should not be placing restrictions on care for individuals. If we cannot get a plan that protects those rights then why have a plan that will in the end kill more people than it helps.
If, and it is a big if, they can cover all Americans then how is the system to provide care to everyone because we simply don’t have the people in this field to care for all of these individuals. Millions of Americans don’t have healthcare and therefore don’t use the system so what happens when these people start using the system? How long will be the wait just to see a doctor? Where is the money to educate nurses and doctors? Americans need more education on the details of this plan before they can get behind it and support it. Voters should have a loud voice in what goes into this plan before anything is passed.
We all support getting healthcare for all Americans but we want quality healthcare for all that does not cost people their lives. We want affordable healthcare that protects the individuals rights. We want something that puts the patient and the doctor in charge of their care not a uncaring federal government agent who may or may not make the right call in a matter of live or death.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lora O'Brien
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C. S. Lewis
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
The O'Coilean (O'Collins)
'A great host with whom it is not fortunate to contend, the battle-trooped host of the O'Coileain."
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
From NPR Radio
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk.
Martin walked so Obama could run.
Obama ran so our children can fly!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Unknown
"Friendship is loving someone no matter what is in their past. It is accepting the fact that they are human and that they have made their share of mistakes over a life time. Trust is being able to tell your friend the most private secret knowing that they will not judge you. A life is not lived well without that one true and trusted friendship."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
"My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Will Rogers
"I don't belong to an organized party--I'm a democrat."
President John F. Kennedy, Democrat
“If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal.’”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Lora O'Brien
"All I can do is share one person's experiences on her own path, not tell you how to walk yours. If a guru is what you are looking for, find another! If I am a teacher, it is because I am already walking the path that you, Dear Reader, may wish to be on. Although each of us must make our own way, I can put up signs at least, and make the way slightly less hazardous for those who wish to walk a similar path."
C. S. Lewis
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
A Female Democrat
1/1/10 A new year and a number of future elections to cover. The budget will be a major issue this year and we must work hard to protect the core values of our party.