Sheep? It’s absolutely fascinating how quickly big pharma and Fox News can whip up a frenzy-fest of people fighting against their own best interests:
How providing cost reducing OPTIONS can be twisted into —> “a government take-over of health care”.
How providing free LIVING WILL CONSULTATIONS, can be twisted into —> “Obama’s death panels”.
How providing PREVENTATIVE CARE INCENTIVE for doctors, can be twisted into “government coming in between you and your health care provider”.
HOW FINALLY PROVIDING ADEQUATE CARE FOR AMERICANS WHO CAN LEAST AFFORD IT, IS TWISTED INTO —> “SOCIALIZED MEDICINE”
I have one simple request for anyone reading this:
Think for one moment what will occur if the insurance lobby wins and no real reform is passed:
Carefully think about this and ask yourself if you are happy with your health insurance cost going up by 200% the rate of inflation year, after year, after year.
Ask yourself if you are happy with millions of jobs being shipped overseas due to high health costs in the U.S.
Ask yourself if you will be happy as the U.S. health system continues to spend a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country, but continues to rank WORST in preventable deaths among industrialized nations. WORST!!!
If this really is a Christian nation, as most would claim, I am seeing fewer and fewer signs of it every day. What ever happened to, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’?
I can’t help but to wonder why those angry mobs at the town hall meetings are not fighting FOR the PUBLIC OPTION rather than against it? Why they are not picketing the insurance industry that is financially incentivized to DENY your coverage (based on pre-existing conditions, etc. etc. etc.) when it comes time to anti-up. Why medical payments are STOPPED, after a fixed period of time, EVEN THOUGHT YOU HAVE MADE INSURANCE PAYMENTS LIKE CLOCKWORK YOUR ENTIRE ADULT LIFE.
You want to see a REAL death panel at work? Just look into the current practices of the most popular health insurance providers.
Get the facts, and then get real folks. If you help to blow THIS CHANCE for high quality health care that EVERYONE can afford, then there may never be another opportunity to actually once-and-for-all get this one right.
References:
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
http://www.americashealthrankings.org/2008/index.html
http://www.who.int/whr/2000/media_centre/press_release/en/index.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN0765165020080108
Matthew 25:40
