FOLLOW THE MONEY
Health care reform has very little to do with health care and a lot to do with money. Because of this, the people who oppose it are of two kinds:
- The shareholders of the insurance industry, who - as middle-men — want to keep on making billions by staking their toll booth between doctors and patients and controlling the traffic. They know exactly what they are doing, they are following the money.
- The people who are their victims and fall into the trap of believing the nonsense they are fed, because of fear. They become enraged at the straw man created by the insurance industry and just regurgitate the lies they have been fed.
They are the puppets of the above, who indoctrinate and train them as a mercenary army, to spread the fear, and disrupt public forums, town hall meetings, and any gathering which would allow a reasonable discourse among intelligent, enlightened human beings. They are basically brainwashed and possessed in the broad sense of the word. Few, if any have even read the bill, or gotten informed or educated about it. But they are very effective at repeating slogans and bringing banners, which their colleagues will videotape and put into the electronic media, thus spreading the nonsense. They don’t even think that we had the worst, most incompetent, administration in US history rule for eight years, who almost bankrupted this country, and they want to perpetuate it. That is why - fed up - we elected someone who would bring change.
Then there are the people for health care reform, who have realized that no such thing is possible in the above climate. The first thing they have to do is wrestle the monopoly the insurance industry has over health care. Single party payer would have been the simple, straightforward solution, doing away with the fat middle-men who now control the industry to the detriment of the consumer and the doctor-patient relationship. But since this is not even on the table, a public option is second best.
After that, we may engage in real healthcare reform, which would consider the real issues of health care, like what is health, what is illness, what are the qualifications of health practitioners, what treatments are effective — including alternative treatments — what is a health care system, versus a disease-management system, how can patients and doctors synergize to achieve better outcomes, what is integrative medicine and holistic health, and so forth. In other words, it would be about how to create a good health service for everyone, not about an industry on how to profit from people’s illness. I call this the ENLIGHENED HEALTH CARE REFORM.

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