One Case For Still MORE Health Care Reform

“The US is the only major industrialized country that does not provide regular health-care to all its citizens. Instead, they are required to provide for themselves – and 50 million people can’t afford the insurance. As a result, 18,000 US citizens die every year needlessly, because they can’t access the care they require. That’s equivalent to six 9/11s, every year, year on year” – Johann Hari, The Independent (UK)

Yes, earlier this year we made a good first step toward health care reform… But as with my recent post on a failed attempt to ban an atheist from holding public office, we are not done yet, and we can not stand by and rest while there is still much more work that needs to be done. We made progress in the right direction, but we can do more…

But let’s start with a brief look at where the opposition to serous health care reform is coming from. Instead of writing hundreds of words Exposing the PR Firms Behind the Fake “Grass Roots” Anti-Healthcare Movement, I’ll let Rachel Maddow do it for me…

Rachel Maddow exposes the Republican-funded and staffed PR firms behind the movement that’s trying to disrupt town hall meetings and slow down/shout down health care reform in the U.S.

Or Stephen Colbert’s take on this same topic; “Soon America’s grassroots people-power movements will be rid of the one thing that’s holding them back: people.”

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But, you might argue, what about the average citizen who had been opposing Health Care Reform? They surely are just average Americans…

DOCUMENTED: Tea Party Racism – Fake grass roots (astroturf) organization grows out of a hatred of non-whites and hatred of a black president.

For MORE examples of Teabagger bigotry and hate, check out this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsPSUx… And while your at it, check out this slide show of racist Tea Party Bill Boards along our nation’s highways: http://twurl.nl/w743v0

Or when Members of Congress are Called The N-Word & Spat On…

Or when Tea Partiers Threaten Congressmen and actually attack Democratic party buildings and Democratic politicians’ buildings…

So how should one deal when confronted by there types of people? Barney Frank shows one way to Confronts a Woman At Townhall, when she Compared Obama To Hitler…

At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?”

Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her approach “vile, contemptible nonsense.” He closes by saying: “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table.”

So, now that I got my quota of videos and humor out of the way, what is left to do with Health Care Reform? My list is by no means exhaustive, but at the very least it’s a good start:

• Ensure that EVERYBODY is covered and has equal access to health care
• Ensure that medical professionals are making the decisions for what treatment should be given, and not accountants at an insurance company
• Ensure that NOBODY goes broke due to health care costs
• Ensure that everybody has access to medical treatment, regardless of the providers’ personal feelings about such treatment (i.e. don’t allow pharmacists to refuse to give women “the pill”)
• Ensure that “Science Based Medicine” is the basis of treatment

Now I know that not everybody will agree with my take. However I will say in advance, if you use the term “Obama-care”, if you compare those who supported health care to Nazis, if you use racial epitaphs, if you make statements that have been proven false and don’t provide some type of evidence, or if you just generally come across as an ignorant jackass blow-hard; don’t expect a reply…

Tea Partiers Threaten Congressmen