Interesting historical look at health care debate
and a letter to the editor which I can’t take credit for but I agree with 100%
There’s something very wrong here. In this country, when one is apprehended and indicted, one is entitled to a lawyer. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed for you.
Yet when one becomes ill and cannot afford a doctor, one will not be appointed for you.
Are we Americans such mean-spirited, self-involved tightwads that we are insensitive to the plight of others less fortunate than we? Certainly not, and I cite the recent outpouring of financial and material aid to the Haitians, as well as the medical support that came from America and Americans.
How did this massive wall of resistance to the proposed health-care reform legislation arise? One explanation that comes to mind is that we became swept up in a massive and costly campaign to distort, exaggerate and fabricate wild tales about “death panels” and the like. Misinformation was everywhere and the media led the way.
We must let the nabobs of negativity know we aren’t their lap dogs. No one says the bill is perfect; the Model T wasn’t either, but it was a starting point. In time it will become clear what works and what doesn’t and adjustments will be made.
We used to speak of the “medical profession.” Now we speak of the “health-care industry.” Bigger does not always equate with better, but it equates with more expensive. If this effort at reform fails it will only become more costly.