What’s going to work best for ALL of us – in personal terms and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace? As citizens of a democracy, these are questions we need to filter our decisions through, politicians especially.
A “competitive” public option does not go far enough to lower the cost and improve the quality of healthcare for everyone. Single Payer Healthcare is the only way to accomplish this goal. We cannot let leaders in Congress and private healthcare corporations control the narrative. America is being torn apart by the forces of separation, selfishness, fear and greed. In effect, government controls the poor and serves the rich. This is why, to many Americans, the word “government” is a bad word and why it can be used against us so effectively to stop meaningful change.
Government IS bad when it uses public money to benefit the few and oppress the many! To keep government from effectively serving all the people, wealthy and powerful insiders insist on privately funding political campaigns so they can exercise control over politicians and the legislation they write. It doesn’t help that corporations have been given the status of personhood and that lobbyists, business leaders and politicians have easy access to one another. When we are hungry for money, power and privilege it’s easy for us to form relationships with others who seek the same. In the process we forget our promise and responsibility to the public at large. Perks (favors, bribes?) in the form of product and service discounts, jobs for family members and players themselves, contribute to an incestuous relationship that breeds destructive policy and threatens the very existence of a democratic America.
I know I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know and I’m not saying you have fallen into this trap but I think it is important for the public to educate itself and get its head out of the ground. We are all responsible for this sorry state of affairs and it is time for all of us to stand up and set it right if we care for our children and the future they will create. It’s not what we’ve done, it’s what we do from now on that counts!
EVERYONE deserves affordable healthcare and Single Payer is the most cost-effective way to provide it. We need to do the right thing. We need to make government work for ALL of us, not just the few who hypnotize themselves and their friends with the Darwinian mantra that “life is about survival of the fittest, it’s eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.”
Responsibility (accountability and self-development) is the price of freedom.
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United we stand, divided we fall.
Roger “Pete” & Sandra Peterson
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