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Now all of a sudden the health care “business” has discovered 155 billion in savings and big Pharma has found 80 billion in savings. Where has all this money been going for the past 10 years? Oh, 100 billion will be lost in future payments anyway from the government so they are really only giving back 55 billion. It’s another trick. These no good rogues will present any deception they can think of to thwart the possibility of a public plan. They know the jig is up and they are on the edge of the finish line. The days of holding prolonged discomfort or possible sudden death over the heads of the American people in order to facilitate serial armed robbery is coming to and end. We are the only civilized nation in the world where before medical treatment is provided we must answer 100 questions about how we will pay for the treatment “before” it is administered. Stories about Americans dying in emergency rooms for lack of the ability to pay are regular nightly news events. Two years ago, the story about the young man in Chicago bleeding to death right outside the hospital door because no one would attend to him due to his lack of coverage is enough in and of itself to justify change in every medical policy we have in our country.
Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican from Kentucky, in an effort to denigrate the President‘s plan, yesterday told a story about how long Canadians had to wait for a knee replacement. In his disingenuous comparison he conveniently left out the fact that here in American 50 million Americans don’t even get placed on a list because we have no way of paying for it. If I have to choose between waiting 6 months for the surgery or not even being considered for the surgery, I’ll get on the waiting list. Thank you very much.
